Episode 10: Aisha Blake
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My guest for this episode is Aisha Blake, founder of <title of conf>, a tech conference built around music and theatrical performances. We talk about her inspiration for this event, the organizing process, and the difficult decision to postpone due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Also discussed in this episode:
- @AishaBlake (Twitter)
- Title of Conf
- Neopets
- HTML & CSS
- Tamagotchi (Wikipedia)
- Domain Names
- Geocities (Wikipedia)
- Photoshop
- Gatsby
- React
- Gatsby Cloud
- Contentful
- Content Management System (CMS) (Wikipedia)
- GraphQL
- Static Site Generator
- Framework (Wikipedia)
- Nat Alison (Twitter)
- Internationalization (Twitter)
- Coding Bootcamp (Wikipedia)
- Jason Lengstorf
- self.conference
- Jesuit Volunteer Corps
- Creating a Safe Space: Embracing Diversity In The Workplace (self.conference 2015)
- Amber Conville (Twitter)
- Anjana Vakil (Twitter)
- JS Heroes
- !!Con (“bang bang con”)
- Tail Call Optimization: The Musical (YouTube)
- Natalia Margolis
- Tail Call Optimization (Wikipedia)
- Chloe Condon (Twitter)
- Art of Python
- Sumana Harihareswara and On The Art of Python 2019
- COVID-19
- aisha.codes blog
- Epsilonx2 (Twitch)
The theme music is Mandelbrot Set from the album Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow by Jonathan Coulton, used under a Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 License, edited and shortened.