Becca Bailey

Speaking & Technical Writing

Talks, podcasts, and technical writing—public work on React, data visualization, engineering practice, and developer experience.

Talk

Design Systems for Data Visualization

Seattle Design Systems · Seattle, WA · June 5, 2024

Data visualizations often fall into an awkward space between design systems and application-specific code. In this talk, I explored how teams can apply design system thinking to charts, graphs, and…

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Podcast

Episode #42

Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett · December 7, 2022

A wide-ranging interview on career path, engineering leadership, and the skills that matter in technical interviews and day-to-day software work.

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Talk

Bouncing Back (But Not Back to Normal)

DevReach · Boston, MA · September 11, 2022

This talk connects a difficult consulting engagement during the pandemic to research on resilience at work—not grit in isolation, but systems, protective factors, and what teams actually need. It's…

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Blog

Adventures with Victory and Canvas

Formidable Blog · November 4, 2021

Part two of the fellowship series—using the Canvas API with Victory, trade-offs vs SVG, and the experimental victory-canvas package for performant charts in React.

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Talk

Konmari Your Code: Finding Joy in Refactoring

Reactathon · December 9, 2020

I gave this talk at Reactathon 2020, connecting Marie Kondo's tidying philosophy to refactoring—when to refactor, how behavior-driven tests make changes safer, and why the goal isn't perfect code but…

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Talk

The State of React State in 2019

React Conf · Las Vegas, NV · October 24, 2019

I gave this talk at React Conf in 2019 about state management when hooks, Context, and Redux were all competing for attention. The landscape has changed since then, but breaking down a crowded topic…

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