Monica
a web developer who believes the internet is a magical place for creators ✨ focused on building community & tech to elevate people.
I 🫶🏾 teaching and experimenting with #CreativeCoding.
https://www.aboutmonica.com • codepen.io/m0nica
- Reposted by MonicaWonderful 4 day weekend, @monica.dev came to visit me 🥰
- Reposted by MonicaGreat closing keynote from @monica.dev !! Full of really good advice for all creative coders. Check it out when the recordings come out! #virtualCCfest
- A few years ago, I attended #virtualCCFest for the first time and left inspired! Today, I will be delivering the closing keynote at CC Fest. I'm looking forward to sharing my love of creative coding and encouraging others to archive (and share!) their creative work.
- #virtualCCFest is kicking off soon! It's a free, virtual creative coding festival, and there's still time to register at: ccfest.rocks
- I’ll be speaking at Creative Coding Fest! It’s free, fun, and open to anyone who wants to explore creative coding. Hope to see you there!
- #virtualCCFest features two amazing keynotes, @monica.dev, software engineer, community organizer, and @charstiles.bsky.social, computational artist, educator. All the details and RSVP at ccfest.rocks
- Reposted by Monica#virtualCCFest is back on Sunday, Sept 28, with amazing keynotes and workshops on creative coding lined-up. You can see and details and RSVP at ccfest.rocks. If you donate your funds will go to support the costs of the free event, Zoom licenses and small stipends for presenters and keynotes.
- Based on my collection of memes and photos iOS classifies these celebs/notable figures under my “People”: * Beyoncé * President Obama (& “The Rock” Obama) * Rihanna * Issa Rae * President Biden * Taraji P Henson * Simone Biles * Janelle Monae * Dr. Cristina Yang * Redacted 🍊
- I’m least surprised by the appearances of Janelle Monáe, Simone Biles and Rihanna. Dr. Cristina Yang also makes sense since I’ve watched every single Grey’s Anatomy episode that she was in.
- Reposted by MonicaThe wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.
- Reposted by MonicaGrateful for small joys these days, like a little more sunlight every day. Fun little map I made last week 📊
- For a while I've viewed my website as my digital playground, so naturally last week's Webmention adventure—plus all the amazing blogs I've been diving into via RSS lately —have me wanting to get more involved with the #IndieWeb community. aboutmonica.com/blog/hello-i...
- Reposted by Monicayou are not alone.
- I think the next phase of my Webmention project will be setting up a linkblog to share my favorite content & bookmarks.
- I’m planning on borrowing some ideas from @simonwillison.net’s and the IndieWeb 🔖 Wiki for my link blog. simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/... indieweb.org/bookmark
- Reposted by MonicaEssential to remind that libraries are not just vital sources of knowledge and information but also excellent community centers devoted to under-served populations. Services for job-seekers, the blind, for senior citizens. They lend out books but also tech, cooking equipment, media players.
- This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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- #VirtualCCFest is happening tomorrow, and it looks like registration is still open! If you're interested in #CreativeCoding, this free event is a great way to spend your Saturday learning and getting inspired by fellow creators. Sign up here: ccfest.rocks/register/
- Virtual #CCFest returns on March 15th! 🎉 It's a free, welcoming event with keynote talks & hands-on technical workshops for anyone curious about #CreativeCoding with tools like p5js and hydra.
- Reposted by MonicaThis Saturday, 15 March, I'm invited by #virtualCCFest to give a talk about my creative coding journey (and my ten years of daily art project). Lots of more exciting keynotes and workshops will be hosted online; so do tune in! ccfest.rocks
- Reposted by Monicaits amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
- Reposted by MonicaWe don't spend a penny on marketing. It's all word of mouth for @costplusdrugs.com That's how we keep prices so low. Please spread the word !
- I've been playing around with adjusting my Webmention workflow all week! Here's an overview of my current Webmention implementation and how I'm using GitHub Actions to review incoming Webmentions. aboutmonica.com/blog/automat...
- I used @remysharp.com's handy CLI tool to send a handful of Webmentions to some people who shared helpful info about their Webmention implementation like @dwayne.xyz , @jamesg.blog.web.brid.gy, @localghost.dev & @petergoes.bsky.social. I'm still sorting out a flow for automatically sending these!
- There's no shortage of ways math can be used in #CreativeCoding to generate visuals, like this donut-shaped Clifford Attractor that uses linear interpolation for color distribution. 🎨 aboutmonica.com/blog/craftin... 🍩 paulbourke.net/fractals/cli...
- In addition to the Clifford Attractor formula, Paul Bourke has a whole collection of fractals, chaos, and attractors: paulbourke.net/fractals/
- Reposted by MonicaI noticed someone mentioning that they couldn't afford "How Git Works" right now. we have a "buy one give one" program where we give away 1 free copy for every zine sold. You can use code BUYONEGIVEONE to get a free PDF copy of How Git Works if $12 is a lot for you. wizardzines.com/zines/git/
- Reposted by MonicaThe coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
- Reposted by Monicaat sxsw, @jay.bsky.team pokes fun at mark zuckerberg by mimicking a version of a t-shirt he designed for himself, which said "aut zuck aut nihil" (either zuck or nothing, like "aut caesar aut nihil"). jay's shirt? "mundus sine caesaribus" (a world without caesars). techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/a...
- Reposted by MonicaHi everyone! Here to announce that Friday was my last day at Auth0/Okta. I’m excited to be looking for my new role though! I’m interested in: ⭐️ Technical writing ⭐️ Developer education/advocacy ⭐️ Developer marketing ⭐️ Technical program management Reposts much appreciated!!🔁 More details below✨
- I've re-wired webmentions on my site, so now likes and mentions of my articles on @bsky.app will (eventually*) appear on my site! *It's not fully automated yet, because I ran into an issue with Cloudflare's bot protection blocking brid.gy requests 🤖
- Today I wrangled with Cloudflare's security settings to allow Brid.gy to read my site to know where to send my webmentions, rewrote how I'm fetching/storing mentions & automated GitHub Actions 🤖 to open a Pull Request with new mentions for me to review based off of: www.petergoes.nl/blog/review-...
- Reposted by MonicaAlso this gif has now followed me to three or four different machines now because SPARKLES: aboutmonica.com/blog/how-to-...
- I've been tidying up my @astro.build site with @zod.dev & Astro's content collection schema functionality. aboutmonica.com/blog/organiz...
- I'm testing sending WebMentions from BlueSky to my (new-ish) Astro site. Testing 1,2,3... aboutmonica.com/blog/getting...
- Good news! This mention showed up on @ap.brid.gy but now I need to sort out how to funnel the data to webmention.io. Then we'll be in business. I'm currently displaying some of my older webmentions.
- Thank you everyone who helped me test my BlueSky + webmentions integration! 💜 bsky.app/profile/moni...
- Virtual #CCFest returns on March 15th! 🎉 It's a free, welcoming event with keynote talks & hands-on technical workshops for anyone curious about #CreativeCoding with tools like p5js and hydra.
- There are so many lovely details on @leanrada.com like this article which features an interactive custom web component that renders the Lily58 keyboard layout and allows readers to toggle between keyboard layers. leanrada.com/notes/my-per...
- make a landscape using only primitive shapes | #genuary6 one of my favorite prompts of #genuary involved exploring how simple points and lines can be used to create a constantly changing landscape #creativecoding #p5js
- Reposted by MonicaWasn’t sure this was gonna happen, but it’s still 2024 here for ~8 hours 😅 My annual portfolio refresh 💃 lynnandtonic.com
- As the year wraps up and I plan my travels for next year, I’m excited to announce that I’m attending #RenderATL2025! This will be my third time at @renderatl.com, and it’s one of my favorite tech conferences —especially for how it brings the tech community together.
- Reposted by Monicait's kinda sad that digital work is so hidden like there's no messy study room or bookshelves full of works you've read or letters from people and gizmos and widgets you've built or stacks of drawings and diagrams it's all just, hidden in folders, already lost in space, and eventually lost to time
- Happy Saturday #BlackSky! 👋🏾 #AddToBlackSky
- Reposted by MonicaFun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!
- Reposted by MonicaIf you're a Spotify user who is finding the microgenre & geodata of your annual "Wrapped" to be less substantial than usual, there's a reason why. A year ago, Spotify laid off most of its employees who worked on genre classification, including folks like data alchemist @glennmcdonald.bsky.social.
- Reposted by MonicaPeople like Jay Graber have repeatedly said that the dream is to one day dissolve the company, and for "Bluesky" to be a protocol akin the personal websites of old. You own your handle, your following, and can move it anywhere on the distributed network of little Blueskies.
