Category: Dancing Engineer
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Tackling Talker’s Block With a Sledge Hammer
(V will be so happy that I’m starting this post this way…) I was listening to a podcast the other day. Specifically, the Tim Ferris podcast featuring Seth Godin who talked about so many amazing things like how he makes honey vodka and his obsession with chocolate and that if you’d like to tackle writer’s block, write every day. And…
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All Your Repos Are Belong To Us
Today (and tomorrow) are the RDO Mitaka Test Days in Brno, Czech Republic and I spent a few hours this morning catching up on the tripleo quickstart live demonstration video and the rest of the day bashing my head against the packstack sanity checks for RHEL 7.2, CentOS 7.1, and Fedora 22. And I took awesome notes. To share with you.…
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Change is Terrifying. Do it Anyway.
On Saturday, 05 March, I am one of the keynote speakers for Django Girls den Haag. Hi. My name is Rain Leander. Welcome to Django Girls den Haag. Today I’m going to talk about programming – what it is, why you should do it, what you can do with it. I’m going to tell you my…
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I Would Buy It
I have thought about some books I’d ACTUALLY like to write, as opposed to, say, NOT. In no particular order: – project do: goal achievement because SCIENCE social psychology research for goal achievement; applying it to a goal achievement method. invent or better define a method.
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Thinking About Writing A Collaborative Book
hrm… or maybe i should just write a book on my own. but something that i’m willing to write a whole hell of a lot about. and also speak a whole hell of a lot about. being a woman in tech. just another unicorn. a call to arms. a call to horns. the book i’m…
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Hello, My Name Is
I am in the midst of a new position within Red Hat and part of the new responsibilities include applying to public speaking opportunities all over the world. And since you have to include a short biography with these applications, I decided it was time for a bit of an overhaul. For perspective, here is the old…
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The Beginning of Something Beautiful
Over the past few months, I’ve spoken with a few people about my idea, The Project, and started posting about it here and there. I spoke with friends and family about it and got some response via social media. Then I did this thing. This past weekend. I ran over to the big building to attend StartupWeekend Groningen 2015. Based on The…
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Sons of Kemet’s In The Castle Of My Skin
Contrast this with the dance video I posted on drie artists and you’ll get a high energy, incredibly staged and filmed video of the incredible Sons of Kemet. I can’t watch it without nodding my head and tapping my fingers. Literally.
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So I spoke at PyGrunn
And I just now found the video which has been up since June 2 this year by looking for “K Rain Leander” results via images.google.com. If I search for the same phrase on google.com it doesn’t show on the first page, which is not ideal. I’m so bored with those previous sentences that I fell…
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The Quick and Dirty Scattered Thoughts
[ disclaimer : i wrote this today while feeling quite under the weather and under the influence of cold medicine and in between bouts of long sleep. you have been warned. ] what is the project going to be about? there are some things that i would like to do just for fun or think…
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HowToBasic presents How To Uninstall Internet Explorer
I love everything about this video. I love that we can relate to the frustration when internet explorer won’t load. I love that he takes it one step further. And one step further after that. And another one more. I love the sound of his voice.
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And now I’m a Software Engineer
I recently switched career paths within Red Hat, but I looked simultaneously outside and within the company for the next opportunity. The not-so-obvious sign it’s time to switch jobs resonates with how that search went and my final decision to stay.