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KWu Monoblogue: December 2014

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On not having to explain why things are inappropriate. December 23, 2014. What did you do wrong? 8221; kind of thing. So appealing to people’s better natures and calling for them to do work seems to me as though it will be inevitably less successful. But, when you run into something you want it to be stopped, your ultimate goal is to have fewer instances of this happening in the world, right? And explaining why it’s inappropriate will help you achieve that goal, in my opinion. One example is men in tech ...

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KWu Monoblogue: April 2014

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Rules for my next conference talk. April 30, 2014. Giving my first tech conference talk. At RailsConf was awesome and overwhelming and surreal! Yet I felt insecure and disappointed after I gave my talk. I'm submitting it to more conferences- please let me know if you hear of any that could be a good fit. To do better next time, I will try to follow these rules:. Practice without reference to the speaker notes at all. Practice with random inserts of applause sounds close to the end (? Use the podium, howe...

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KWu Monoblogue: January 2010

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Meat and bean sauce (za jiang mian ). January 3, 2010. Scallion/green onion, minced. Ground pork (about 1lb). Peas, cooked soybeans, peanuts, etc. (optional). Dry tofu, chopped: I used to use '5 spice thick dry tofu' (wu xian- da gan-) but my mom prefers unspiced tofu gan- so that it only takes up the flavors you cook into it here. 1/2 6-oz. can of bean sauce. Spicy bean sauce, if desired (generally we don't have this spicy though). Making this with 1lb of ground pork will make enough to last several mea...

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KWu Monoblogue: Notes from Sandi Metz fireside chat with Women Who Code

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Notes from Sandi Metz fireside chat with Women Who Code. June 8, 2015. The absolute highlight of my trip to RailsConf this year was an event put on by Women Who Code featuring Sandi Metz. Below are my notes for the session, but WWC actually managed to record the whole thing too! It's an hour and 20 minutes long, but I might even watch it again myself, even though I was there (the person that's kind of loud and asking lots of questions? No thought at the time (late 70s) that CS was only for men. Code that...

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KWu Monoblogue: June 2015

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Continuing education at work. June 17, 2015. Update: I gave a talk about this topic. And also wrote up more implementation tips. I've been working as a software engineer for almost two years now but it's really only in the last six months-ish that I felt like I've gotten better at getting myself to learn things while at work that are beyond "what is the thing that I need to accomplish this immediate task in front of me." It turns out that the keys to success, at least for me, are:. To download the video ...

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Knitalongs

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Or- Chicknits Eyelet Cardi. Sitcom Chic knitalong group at yahoo. Using : Must Have Cardigan from Paton's. Must Have Cardigan knitalong group at yahoo.

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KWu Monoblogue: Complex conditional formatting in Google Spreadsheets

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Complex conditional formatting in Google Spreadsheets. June 1, 2015. I quite like organizing things in spreadsheets generally and of course had a fair amount of familiarity with Google Docs and Spreadsheets after working there for 5 years. Among other things, I more or less project planned my wedding and all its associated craft projects using Google Spreadsheets. One of my favorite features is conditional formatting. Which helps you do automatic color-coding based on the content of the spreadsheet!

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KWu Monoblogue: April 2015

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April 28, 2015. I had an AMAZING time at RailsConf this year! A couple weeks before the trip, a coworker asked me whether I was excited about it, and I said I hadn’t had time to feel excited because I was worrying over my talk so much (which was about 1-2 weeks behind in prep time than last year’s). But I got it all done in the end with just the one close-to-all-nighter and followed most of my own tips. Recommended talks (I may update this as more things come back to me):. Notes from this forthcoming.

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KWu Monoblogue: February 2015

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Technically Speaking webinar: Public Speaking Scares Me, Should I Do it Anyway. February 17, 2015. My notes from the Technically Speaking webinar. Hosted by Cate, Chiu-Ki, and Denise. Even though I've followed each woman's work for awhile now, it was 1, still packed with new-to-me advice and 2, really fun to hear all of their accents and stories together! Here is a Storify. That Cate put together of the event too, and here's a follow up piece. Fear of public speaking. Break out different kinds of fear.

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KWu Monoblogue: Continuing education at work

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Continuing education at work. June 17, 2015. Update: I gave a talk about this topic. And also wrote up more implementation tips. I've been working as a software engineer for almost two years now but it's really only in the last six months-ish that I felt like I've gotten better at getting myself to learn things while at work that are beyond "what is the thing that I need to accomplish this immediate task in front of me." It turns out that the keys to success, at least for me, are:. To download the video ...