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Featured Articles
Many of my articles are published on Dev.to. Other articles that I've written are published on community.aws. My scholarly articles and others are found on Google Scholar. Dozens of articles from my days as a Developer Advocate at Telerik and Progress are found on Telerik's blog and the NativeScript blog. The articles listed on this page are my more significant or interesting short-form writing. Some of these are from particularly engaging project announcements, some are really creative technical articles, some are thought pieces. You'll find posts here from my positions in Developer Advocacy at Cloudinary, AWS, Microsoft, Progress/Telerik, and writing related to my nonprofit, Vue Vixens (later renamed to Front-End Foxes). I hope you enjoy them all.
July 29, 2025Use Cloudinary's MCP server to automate the process of gathering images for ML model training or content libraries, saving significant time and resources...right from your IDE.
July 24, 2025There’s a peculiar human desire to reconnect with their past by looking for clues in family trees....
June 22, 2025image from Midjourney, amusingly prompted as 'cheesecore' I'm always interested in how new...
March 18, 2025Ever since I heard about Agentic AI and the ability that we now have to send little helpers all...
December 26, 2024Writing code for the web sometimes feels a little magical in that we write a sequence of characters...
November 19, 2024Exploring how AI can contribute to the concept of connoisseurship by helping humans better appreciate ancient artifacts, with the example of artisan textiles as a catalyst to help humans move from appropriation to appreciation
October 29, 2024Changing how girls perceive computer science, programmers, the craft of programming, and the career paths that are open to them is crucial to ensure a diverse, equitable, just and intersectional field going forward.
August 11, 2024During August 2024, we're hosting the world's first Generative AI Festival along with AWS Cloud Clubs
April 13, 2024Always wanted to build a browser extension but afraid to try? Fear no more, you can build a browser extension that calls an API to give your region's carbon usage
November 27, 2023Amazon's new AI tool, PartyRock, is both a fun and useful tool that you can use right now to help you get organized, study smarter, and become generally more productive as a student. Let's discover the top 10 most wicked awesome apps built with PartyRock for students!
September 11, 2023The Grad Project has allowed us to meet graduate students and learn about how they use AWS technologies to further their research goals and accomplish their projects. Stay tuned as we learn from them in person on LinkedIn Live in a series of two hands-on workshops available to be run by attendees, live, on SageMaker Studio Labs.
May 29, 2023May is Mental Health Month, so why not take a little time to relax and build yourself a mindfulness app?
May 7, 2023The lightning-speed development of generative AI in various permutations has serious ethical questions on fair use. In this introductory article I tackle this vast topic by offering some vocabulary and a timeline
May 26, 2022Learn the basics of AI with Education Cloud Advocates at Microsoft, including GOFAI ("good old-fashioned AI"), symbolic reasoning, knowledge representation, neural networks, neural frameworks with TensorFlow and PyTorch, computer vision, semantic segmentation, Natural Language Processing, deep Reinforcement Learning, Genetic Algorithms, Multi-Agent Systems and AI Ethics
January 20, 2022A study of a famous poet’s enigmatic poetry to determine seasonal sentiment patterns, published with Python in Plain English.
August 3, 2021Front-End Foxes is proud to open a new kind of boot camp: by women developers for women developers! Learn more about it here and get ready to learn with us starting Sept 6!
June 30, 2021Learn the basics of classic machine learning with Education Cloud Advocates at Microsoft, including regression, clustering, classification, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, time series forecasting, and more
April 15, 2021Learn about how we partnered with a nonprofit and a famous museum in the UK - home of the Turing machines - to teach game development for Autistic students
- April 7, 2021
Always wanted to build a browser extension but afraid to try? Fear no more, you can build a browser extension that calls an API to give your region's carbon usage
March 1, 2021Learn about a new series of free, printable, downloadable mini magazines (zines) all about machine learning
February 22, 2021Learn how to make hand shadow stories with TensorFlow.js's Handpose model and Azure Speech Service
February 11, 2021SOS! The ISS has had a piece of its solar wing damaged by space junk, and it's up to you to save it! In this new Mystery Adventure by Azure Advocates, complete four missions, meeting famous women scientists along the way, save the ISS, and collect your badge!
- February 8, 2021
Front-End Foxes is proud to open a new kind of boot camp: by women developers for women developers! Learn more about it here and get ready to learn with us!
January 22, 2021Using a machine learning model generated with Lobe.ai, you can create an interesting dataset to classify historical artifacts such as antique lace
January 6, 2021Python and Java coding packs offer a free and easy way to get started seamlessly as a developer using Visual Studio Code
November 12, 2020Learn the basics of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML from Azure Advocates in this free online curriculum
October 21, 2020Let me show you how I rallied my town and created a map showing kids where to find contactless, pandemic-friendly candy caches that saved Halloween!
September 3, 2020Ascend to the summit of the Azure Maya Mystery's forgotten pyramid in the jungle, learning its name and the goddess to whom it is dedicated
August 3, 2020Jump in to the mysterious cenote to discover more about the Azure Maya Mystery's pyramid
July 2, 2020Learn how we built a text-based game to teach about Ancient Maya Glyphs and discover aspects of Microsoft Azure, all built on an Azure Static Web App
April 30, 2020Build an offline-first Progressive Web App that uses a machine learning model built on CustomVison.ai's service to differentiate between tricky images and deploy it using a GitHub Action
January 31, 2020We had a tremendous year in 2019. Let's learn about what we did and where we're going in 2020.
January 31, 2020Need to deploy your website? Want to use GitHub Actions like those cool kids over there? I'll show you how!
December 3, 2019Lucy has a problem, and a serverless scheduler can help!
- December 2, 2019
Let's start with a very simple challenge: create a function to spin a dreidel
November 19, 2019Learn about Azure Advocates' 25 Days of Serverless project - 25 days of fun puzzles on serverless technologies
October 31, 2019Creating a text-based game to introduce folks to Microsoft Azure
October 1, 2019Learn how to build a mobile app that can enhance your appreciation of old literature by using modern text mining and cognitive services
July 15, 2019How do we teach in our workshops? What can you expect to learn from a Vue Vixens event? Learn all about the method behind our pedagogy in this article
June 19, 2019In the third part of this series, we will learn how to migrate your database from Firebase to Azure and use data in your app.
May 29, 2019In the second part of this series, we will learn how to make a cleaner build and release system for your Vue.js app on Azure.
May 21, 2019There may come a time in your career when you have to move from platforms such as Firebase and Netlify for app deployment to a more enterprise-focused platform such as Microsoft Azure. Here's an empathetic post for all the Spoiled People.
March 8, 2019Solid tips and tricks to bootstrap your career as a woman in tech
- December 21, 2018
Vue Vixens has grown immensely since it launched in Feburary of 2018. What worked for us, what didn't, and where are we going in 2019?
December 17, 2018How can VuePress and Tailwind.css work together to create a really custom-looking site? Learn how here!
- October 14, 2018
Based on several years of travel and speaking at conferences, I'd like to call out the GOOD actors who are making it easy for conference speakers to do their best work.
- September 9, 2018
Learn more about how to build mobile apps with NativeScript-Vue, which is reaching 2.0 very soon.
April 13, 2018It's my great honor and pleasure to formally introduce to the world a new program, project, and community, Vue Vixens!
April 20, 2017This article has been many months in the making, and actually stemmed from a really uncomfortable family discussion around the dinner table where we had an argument about, of all things, what a “Coder” is.
November 17, 2016Need to build a community around an open source offering, library, or product? I've got you covered!
March 30, 2015In this article, I’d like to share some of my own inspiration for software development that I found in Paris.