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Hello and welcome! My name is Akira, welcome to my digital garden!
I'm a developer advocate and musician. I currently work in DevRel at Bright Security, bringing cybersecurity tools like DAST scanners to devs to empower them to secure their software.
In my spare time, I love to garden, cook, and grow gourmet mushrooms in my basement :)
One of my raison d'etre is to teach other people what I'm learning..and I'm constantly learning!
Here you'll find not only tech resources but lots of info on my various passions: music, growing mushrooms, fermentation, art, theater, math, accidentally lighting my garage on fire with a soldering iron and how you can avoid that mistake (jk), and renewable energy.
I love teaching people what I've learned! Here's some talks where I do just that:
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JWTs: What JavaScript Developers Need to Know, UtahJS conference
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From Rubyist To JavaScripter: A Self Taught Journey, Boulder Ruby Group
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Build Your Own Cloud Gaming PC using AWS EC2 services, Bend JavaScript(Blog based on talk)
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From Rubyist to JavaScripter - My Pain, Your Gain, Boulder Ruby Group (Slide Deck)
A communal guide to connect and educate those working legally in the Psychedelic space with people interested in using Psychedelics for therapeutic care and enhancing well-being.
- Make any picture into cake w/ CSS (Because everything is cake. Always has been.)
- How to talk to strangers
- Build your own personal site with Jekyll
- Build a 3d photo gallery w/ parallax.js
- Debugging workshop
- Scan an OSS project with a DAST and fix the bugs
- Find your "why" to avoid burnout
- How I translate code into human
- The Hackathon, The Open Source, and The English Writing: how I use this trinity to iteratively build my tech skills
- Debugging JS Basics
- Chrome extension that monitors time spent on social media, and when you navigate away from the page, Count Reugen from "The Princess Bride" shows up and says: "I've just sucked <x amount of hours/minutes> of your life away. Tell me, how does it feel?"
- Make a Raspberry Pi Content Filter
- Crash course on collaborating on Github
- Big refactor energy
- How to be a good mentee
- The developer's search for meaning: How Merkle's existentialist writing applies to our work
- Photo journal of making Kimchi
- Photo journal of making Makgolli
- Photo journal of feeding Natto to my friends
- How I rescued myself from study anxiety
- Tutorials aren't hell, the way you use them sucks
- A good to-do tutorial w/ Rails and React
- A good to-do tutorial w/ React
- Tutorial on how to chunk knowledge
- Tutorial on documentation, namely, writing with an active, clear voice
- Social Media is the New Opioid Addiction
- Transcendence and Technology: what the revolutionary film Akira teaches us about the our destiny
- Bug fixing the Best Way - compare and contrast different approaches w/o demonizing any of them
- From Rubyist to JavaScript-er - the good, the bad, and the ugly
- General Fetch API knowledge; what it makes available & why its so widely used
- Async and Await sideways definitions
- Promises sideways definitions
- You Gotta Spend Money to Make Money - How I Prioritized Debt and Got Rich (wip haha)
- Comics on schoolkids that illustrates async programming: promises, fetch, async & await
- Audio Mass
- Make Your own Brian Eno Cover with Javascript
- Sketch, but with your ears (Python and Javascript)
- Sonic Pi, a Ruby-based Synth
- Tone.js, create interactive music in your browser
- Paper.js, amazing data visualization and animation
- P5, a JS library for creative coding(whaaat!)
- Consensys Academy-Decentralized Web Bootcamp
- Beaker, a Peer-to-Peer Web browser
- Protoschool Tutorials
- IPFS, p2p file stroage
- Scuttlebutt, decentralized, p2p social media
- How IFPS works
- Get Involved With The Etherium Community
- How the Decentralized Web Works
- Decentralized Web Seattle
- 17 Blockchain Apps That are Transforming Society
- Keybase
- ThreeJS-super cool looking 3D visualizations
- CindyJS-physics and math at a high level
- Getting Started with Redwood JS
- Tone.js, create interactive music in your browser
- Really Great Real-World Analogies
- Egghead.io, fantastic tutorials/classes
- Frontend Masters, paid subscription service with robust courses
- Turing School's Open Source Curriculum
- The Odin Project, open source full-stack curriculum in Ruby and JS
- A Brief History of Javascript
- Allen Wirfs-Brock, the Gandalf of JavaScript
- The Origin of Javascript with Brandon Eich
- Association for Computing Machinery aka the Library of all things Tech
- Debugging JavaScript (beginner level)
- Clean HTML Best Practices
- MDN HTML overview
- Check if Markup is Valid
- CSS Vocabulary
- Filepath Reminders
- Zettlekasten, aka strategic index cards
- Anki, the best flash cards ever
- A Mind For Numbers, the book that rescued me from learning anxiety
- Grow them from a Kit! (Easy)
- Grow them in a Bucket! (Easy)
- Grow them on Straw! (Medium)
- Grow them on logs! (Hard)
If you like to write as much as I do, here are the places I've found who are currently accepting applications for contributors. Sometimes, they will even pay you!
- Twilio
- We Watch talks
- CSS Tricks
- Letters to a New Developer
- FusionAuth Blog Tutorials - ask me or Dan Moore about it!