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In July 2020 I found myself as part of the many people affected by COVID-19 related layoffs. Before that, I was writing anything from Elm to…

Dear JavaScript, We’ve barely spoken in the past year but I still think about you. You were my first self-taught language and it built me a…

For elm-conf 2019, I created a 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon inspired game for the Marvel universe. I found a Marvel GraphQL endpoint and created…

I was interviewed on a podcast called Functional Geekery. Proctor and I talked about my functional programming origin story: starting at my…

In April 2019 I gave my first conference talk at Elm in the Spring. I spoke about being in a brand new code base at the same time as a brand…

After recently joining NoRedInk and moving to San Francisco, I gave a talk at Elm in the Spring 2019 about exploring one of the larger Elm…

Onboarding: follow the instructions and most developers will get set up. But me? I’m not most developers. I’m Katie Hughes and I’m the…

This was written for my former employer’s tech blog, formally known as AppNexus, currently known as Xandr. You can find the orignal post on…

This may seem like a familiar scenario: My friend says a comedically judgmental thing on Slack. We all respond with an emoji representing…

In college I had my nose to the grindstone with school and work and internships that I was never really a side project type of person. When…

source: Spin’s interview with Ryan North For the uninitiated, Squirrel Girl (or Doreen Green) is part squirrel, part girl, and entirely…

Welcome to The Sound of Grammars (Reprise), you can catch the first part of the series here. As a reminder, I’ve been reading Parsing…

I am currently working my way through Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide by Ceriel J.H. Jacobs and Dick Grune which is available as a PDF…

A class I took in college called Programming Language Fundamentals introduced me to Haskell and it didn’t take long until I was utterly…