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Learn how to create an AI Agent super fast and super easy using Zapier. Let's create something useful together!

Let's explore an intersection of technology and artisanship by studying the special case of the artisan textile as a literal web that connects old and new, artisan and engineer, poet and scientist.

Originally written in 2015 and updated in 2024, this article is cited in Wikipedia on the topic. Ever wonder what kind of technology underlies JavaScript, the language of the web? Learn about the history and evolution of JavaScript's core.

There is some disconnect in how girls perceive computer science, programmers, the craft of programming, and the career paths that are open to them. Let's get to work!

Amazon'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!

The 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 is Mental Health Month, so why not take a little time to relax and build yourself a mindfulness app?

The 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

A study of a famous poet’s enigmatic poetry to determine seasonal sentiment patterns, published with Python in Plain English.

Try your hand at building a browser extension to track the carbon intensity in your region. Great project for Earth Day!

A Partnership between the National Museum of Computing, Track.org, and Azure Advocates

I'd like to announce the first 'drop' of five free 'zines' - all about Machine Learning! What are zines, you ask? Well, they are printable papers that you can fold into small personal magazines. These 5 are all about Machine Learning.

While exploring the art of hand shadows, I wondered whether some of the recent work I had done for body poses might be applicable to hand poses. What if you could tell a story on the web using your hands, and somehow save a video of the show and the narrative behind it, and send it to someone special?

Azure Advocates and Community Advocacy PMs are excited to offer our third mystery experience, the Azure Space Mystery! Following on the Azure Mystery Mansion and the Azure Maya Mystery, this adventure sends you on missions in space to collect the four missing pieces of the wing. Store each piece in your space ship's Collection Bay and find your way to the ISS to save the day.

Front-End Foxes was a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, tax-exempt charity registered in Massachusetts, USA. We are people who identify as women and who want to learn front-end technologies to make websites and mobile apps. This blogpost announced our COVID pivot into launching a boot camp online.

The use of advanced inference techniques when visiting a museum collection may not be obvious. Learn how to use Lobe.ai to create a classification model to determine different types of lace

In 2020, Halloween is in jeopardy. How do you safely trick or treat in a pandemic? Enter...Azure Maps!

Azure Advocates and Project Managers have launched a curriculum that you can access completely free of charge to take your first steps with JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, the building blocks of the web

After the big success of the Azure Mystery Mansion, I created a three-part mystery scavenger-hunt type game called the Azure Maya Mystery, where you wind your way through a mystical pyramic, unraveling Maya glyphs along the way.

Using a cognitive service that builds on pre-trained models is a great way to dip your toe into machine learning models using some of the excellent Azure Machine Learning cognitive services , build a completely useless web app and have some fun doing it.

I’ve been meaning to skill up in GitHub Actions for a while. You know that little tab that appears on your repo labeled Actions? That’s the one I keep failing to click on.

2019 was a banner year for our organization. We are now a 501(c)(3) public tax-exempt nonprofit and we are here to serve our community! In this article, I’ll outline the work we did in 2019, the lessons we learned, and where we hope to go in 2020.

We’re launching 25 Days of Serverless as a way for you to explore – any way you like – the promise and potential of serverless technologies. Over the month of December, you’ll be able to tackle all kinds of challenges that you can solve any way you like; we’ll offer solutions built on Azure, of course, but we’re curious how you would approach the problems we will present to you.

Using Twine, we created a spooky mystery mansion experience where folks can solve problems in each room, like entering codes into an old rotary phone to open hiding places. A groundbreaking project that I led at Microsoft.

To celebrate National Poetry Month in August, I built a mobile app that might help jog your memory about a poet that you might have forgotten, or never heard about, but someone who evokes strong feelings in many folks who hold good memories from their literature classes. Let's talk about Emily Dickinson.

I cut my teeth designing curricula at Front-End Foxes, Inc., our nonprofit that helped thousands of women skill up in web and mobile dev. Here's our philosophy.

A three part series that gives a good example of the type of content that works for newbies - and those just starting out with a new tech. It's probably outdated but a good sample.

Written for IWD 2019. It’s an exciting time to be a woman in a technical role. There is tremendous visibility within both large and small companies about the need for diversity and inclusion, and a growing understanding from the C-Suite that fostering diversity in the workforce HELPS, rather than hinders, team dynamics.

Updated in 2023, this is an evergreen article that has a lot of likes. So, thinking as a Vue.js developer, what's the most efficient way to get a website up and running ASAP? VuePress immediately springs to mind.

It's my great honor and pleasure to formally introduce to the world a new program, project, and community, Vue Vixens!

This 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.

Need to build a community around an open source offering, library, or product? I've got you covered!

In this article, I’d like to share some of my own inspiration for software development that I found in Paris.