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What I Am Paying Attention to in 2024
- August 03, 2025
Disclaimer: the content of this post is a reflection of my career journey and not specific to my work at JPMorganChase.
A Lesson in Leadership
- July 27, 2025
Last week at work, a leadership team was in town and answering employee questions at a fireside chat.
Happy 20th Birthday, Django!
- July 13, 2025
Me and Simon Willison at DjangoCon US 2024 (photo credit: Django Fellow Natalia Bidart)
DjangoCon US 2025 Topics Inspiration List
- April 19, 2025
Disclaimer: the content of this post is a reflection of my career journey and not specific to my work at JPMorganChase & Co.
2024 Recap
- December 10, 2024
Disclaimer: the content of this post is a reflection of my life journey and not specific to my work at JPMorganChase.
DjangoCon US 2024 Recap
- October 07, 2024
Disclaimer: the content of this post is a reflection of my career journey and not specific to my work at JPMorganChase.
PyCon US 2024 Recap
- June 01, 2024
Disclaimer: the content of this post is a reflection of my career journey and not specific to my work at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Favorite Conference Snapshots
- March 02, 2024
Although these snapshots do not include all of the people who are special to me, they give a taste of the fun and serendipity of my conference travels over the years. In the Python community, as they say, the world is your oyster. A huge thank you to everyone who has made these incredible experiences possible over the years.
Los Angeles 2023
- January 09, 2024
I finished my work year with a successful presentation to my department (see my 2023 Recap for a review of my year!). A few hours later, I arrived at LAX. With Santa Monica as my “home base,” I spent 9 days seeing the city. It was the first non-business trip that I’d taken in years. I had a general idea of the things I wanted to do, but hadn’t done much planning. I played it by ear, and it worked.
2023 Recap
- December 26, 2023
Throughout the year, I led/co-led the completion of a variety of substantial code features at JPMorgan Chase. I had the opportunity to lead team meetings such as Sprint Retro and Sprint Review and Demo. I gave code deep dives and demos to team members and managers.
DjangoCon US 2023 Recap
- November 02, 2023
Disclaimer: the content of this post is a reflection of my career journey and not specific to my work at JPMorganChase.
Pinax Release Tutorial
- October 03, 2022
Pinax has been a popular group of projects, apps, and themes for around 15 years and still has many users.
2020 Recap
- December 18, 2020
Thank you to Dawn Wages for inspiring me to do a Year in Review blog post!
Hacktoberfest PRs- 2020
- October 30, 2020
In the spirit of building in public and using accountability to improve, I decided to write a brief summary of my Hacktoberfest PRs.
Building a Taco John’s Scraper
- October 29, 2020
I created this scraper as a fun programming exercise to solve a hypothetical problem.
TIL- 100 Days of Code Version
- July 27, 2020
In April, I was looking through my Twitter newsfeed and came across a tweet by Simon Willison that piqued my curiosity.
Reflections on Stanford Code in Place
- July 27, 2020
In late March, while I was looking through my Twitter news feed, I came across a tweet about a one-time Python programming course called Stanford Code in Place.
PyGotham 2019 Recap
- July 20, 2020
PyGotham 2019 took place at Hotel Penn in New York City last fall. While sheltering-in-place, Eldarion’s Katherine Michel looked back at the wonderful experience she had there and looks forward to returning to a conference and city she loves.
DjangoCon US 2019 Recap
- October 28, 2019
DjangoCon US 2019 took place at Mission Valley Marriott in sunny San Diego from September 22-27. Eldarion’s Katherine Michel shared some insight into what that experience was like and what’s on the horizon for Django!
PyCon US 2019 Recap
- June 01, 2019
PyCon US 2019 took place at Huntington Convention Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio from May 1-10. Eldarion’s Katherine Michel wrote about what it was like to experience PyCon US for the first time!
Blog Post Feature Cheat Sheet
- May 31, 2019
Exciting documentation in here. Let’s make a list (empty surrounding lines required):