Creative Coding Fest
Delivered keynote speech at Creative Coding Fest showcasing my approach to Creative Coding and encouraging others to experiment and explore with creative code.
Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 09-28-2025
Monica Powell
United States
Monica Powell is a software engineer who is passionate about making contributing to open-source more approachable and building online and offline communities. Find her creating content on dev.to like How to Create a GitHub Profile ReadMe contributing to projects like the The New York Public Library's eBook software, teaching web development or growing the React Ladies community she founded.
Community Contributions
Judge of For the Love of Code
For the Love of Code is a summer hackathon for joyful, ridiculous, and wildly creative projects. I participated in a panel of GitHub Stars, Campus Experts, and staff to evaluate entries based on joyfulness, execution, technical difficulty, ingenuity, and relevance to the category.
Hackathon / 09-22-2025
Kode with Klossy Demo Day at Apple Carnegie Library
I delivered a celebratory keynote speech to scholars who completed the Kode with Klossy 2025 program.
Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 08-08-2025
Hello, Indie Web!
I wrote about my experience with the IndieWeb and some recent updates I made to my site to support IndieWeb protocols like Webmention.
Blogpost / 03-17-2025
Fetch Webmentions Automatically with GitHub Actions
I wrote a tutorial on how I configured a GitHub action to run on a schedule to fetch my webmentions, storing each webmention in its own JSON file and create a pull request with the new JSON files.
Blogpost / 03-14-2025
Organizing Content with Astro Content Schemas
With Astro’s Content Collection Schema functionality, you can enforce structured data like uniform tags to keep your content organized and SEO-friendly. In this post, we’ll dive into how you can define and validate tags using Astro’s schema system, ensuring every article follows the same tagging conventions. Whether you’re managing a blog, documentation site, or any content-heavy project, understanding how to leverage Astro’s Content Collections can help you streamline your workflow and maintain consistency effortlessly.
Blogpost / 03-06-2025
Sketching with Code: Integrating React and p5.js
I spoke at the biggest React conference in the U.S., React Summit about Sketching with Code to show how to use p5.js with React
Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 11-19-2024
Truchet Tile Generator
Open-sourced Truchet Tile pattern generator created for React Summit talk.
Open source project / 11-19-2024