TECHNICAL BLOGS, TUTORIALS, and DOCUMENTATIONS

conferences.md

Conference & Meetup Talks

I have done many conference talks and I honestly do not recll everything, after lanyrd.com, where I used to keep tracks of all my conferences, has shut down. So this is the list where the talks were recorded && I remember. I am pretty sure some are missing!

⭐️: As a keynote speaker

Web, JavaScript, and other technical Conferences

• POST.Dev (Tokyo | Online) - October 2022 📺 YouTube
• Web Directions: Code (Online) - August 2020
• Twilio Signal (San Francisco, CA) - August 2019
• TechWorld (Stockholm, Sweden) ⭐️ - June 2019
• ServerlessConf by IBM (San Francisco, CA) - June 2019 📺 YouTube
• SanSan Innovation (Tokyo, Japan) - March 2019
• Voxxed Athens (Athens, Greece) - June 2018 📺 YouTube
• Render Conf (Oxford, England) - March 2018
• INDEX Conf by IBM (San Francisco, CA) - February 2018
• ForwardJS (San Francisco) - February 2018
• TokyoJS Meetup (Tokyo, Japan) - July 2017
• ForwardJS (San Francisco, CA) - March 2017
• JS Kongress (Munich, Germany) - November 2016 📺 YouTube
• Nordic.js (Stockholm, Sweden) - September 2016 📺 YouTube
• Forward 5 (San Francisco) - July 2016
• NodePDX (Portland, Oregon) - June 2016 📺 YouTube
• Mozilla IoT Meetup (San Francisco, CA) - April 2016
• Forward 4 (San Francisco, CA) - February 2016 📺 YouTube
• Web Unleashed (Toronto, Canada) - September 2015
• Forward 3 (San Francisco, CA) - July 2015
• AngularU Conf (South San Francisco, CA) - June 2015 📺 YouTube
• Powered by JavaScript at Strange Loop (St. Louis, MO) ⭐️ - Septermber 2014
• CRAFT Conf (Budapest, Hungary) - April 2014 📺 YouTube
• SF HTML5 Meetup (San Francisco, CA) - November 2013 📺 YouTube
• CSS Dev Conf (Estes Park, CO) - October 2013
• All Your Base (Oxford, England) - October 2013
• EDGE Conferenece (New York City, NY) - September 2013
• OSCON (Portland, OR) - July 2013
• W3C Meetup (Tokyo, Japan) - June 2013
• W3C Conf (San Francisco, CA) - February 2013 📺 YouTube
• Palm Pre Meetup (Sunnyvale, CA) - August 2009
• iPhone DevCamp (San Francisco, CA) - August 2008

Developer Relations & Career-related conferences

• DevRel Asia (Online) - November 2020 📺 YouTube
• DevRelCon Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) - November 2019 📺 YouTube
• Mozilla TechSpeakers (Singapore) - November 2019
• DevRel Summit (Singapore) - November 2018 📝 Medium
• DevRelCon Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) ⭐️ - July 2018 📺 YouTube
• DevXCon (San Francisco, CA) - May 2017 📺 YouTube
• DevRel Summit (Seattle, WA) - August 2016

Company 1st-party Hosted / Sponsored Conferences & Events

• M365 UG Japan (Online) - September 2022
• Microsoft BUILD (Redmond, WA / Remote) - May 2022 📺 YouTube
• Reactor Shanghai (Online) - November 2020
• Slack SPEC Conference (San Francisco, CA) - May 2018 📺 YouTube
• IBM x Slack Chatbot Workshop (Tokyo, Japan) - March 2019
• GDC Cloud Meetup at Slack HQ (San Francisco, CA) - December 2018
• Slack meetups in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Tokyo, Taipei, Osaka.
• EmojiCon (San Francisco, CA) - November 2016
• Lots of PubNub hosted meetups

list_of_articles.md

Technical Blog, Tutorials, and Docs

This is a list of my articles, mostly written for employers, and some have been done in my own time.

Magazine Columns (as an Author)

• The JavaScript Handbook 2015 (Future plc) Available in PDF now
• Net Magazine (Future plc)

Books (as an illustrator)

• Modern System Administration: Jennifer Davis (O'Reilly Media)

Books (as a Technical Editor)

• Programming the Mobile Web: Maximiliano Firtman (O'Reilly Media)
• Mobile HTML5: Estelle Weyl (O'Reilly Media)
• Learning JavaScript Robotics: Kassandra Perch (Packt Publishing)
• Proposal reviews for Manning Publishing

Books (as an illustrator)

• TBA (O'Reilly Media)

Personal Tech Blog — 1996 to present (Technical blogs started on 2007)

• Web: http://www.girliemac.com/blog/
• Medium: https://medium.com/@girlie_mac
• Dev.to: https://dev.to/girlie_mac

Tech Doodles — 2017 to present

• Date Structure and Algorithms 101
• Git Purr
• Slack API Explained zine (Completed, but won't publish)
• WebDev for Beginners
• Machine Learning for Beginners

🐱 HTTP Status Cats — 2011

• Originally posted on Flickr

Microsoft Developer Documentations — 2020 to present

• Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Graph
• New docs TBA

Microsoft Developer Tutorials — 2020 to present

• Beginners Guide to MS Teams Development #1: Tabs

• Beginners Guide to MS Teams Development #2: Bots

• Beginners Guide to MS Teams Development #3: Message extensions

• Using VS Code Teams Toolkit Extension for Teams App Development

• Fetching Teams User Info from Microsoft Graph with TeamsFx SDK

• Developing Enterprise-Ready Microsoft Teams Apps with Teams Toolkit v3.0

• Debugging Teams App Locally with Teams Toolkit

• Microsoft Teams Toolkit for VS Code is now GA 🎉

• Roll A Dice! - Building a Command Bot for Microsoft Teams Using Team Toolkit v4 with VS Code

• Customizing F5 Debugging in Teams Toolkit for VS Code

• 🎌 The same tutorials in Japanese on Qiita: https://qiita.com/girlie_mac

Slack API Documentations — 2017 - 2020

• api.slack.com - some of the long-form docs
• Slack API Tutorials — 2017 - 2020
• Building a home for your app 🏡
• Hello World, Bolt ⚡️ - Building your very first app with Bolt
• Building contextual search experiences using Block Kit and Node.js
• Make Your Office Smarter! DIY with Raspberry Pi & Slack
• 🎌 tutorials in Japanese on Qiita: https://qiita.com/tomomi_slack

Slack API Webinars — 2017 - 2020 (not all recordings are publicly available)

• Building apps with Slack developer tools
• IBM Watson Developer - Build a Smart Bot with Slack, Block Kit and Watson - Crowdcast
• Google Cloud Webinar - Cloud OnAir: Building a Serverless Slack Chatbot with Google Cloud Functions

Smashing Magazine—2017

• Building A Simple AI Chatbot With Web Speech API And Node.js

Adafruit— 2017

• Building a sentiment analysis bot with IBM Watson and Raspberry Pi

Older articles may not be available at the URL anymore, but should be accessible via web.archive.org.

Nexmo Tech blog — 2016 - 2017

• How to Send SMS Messages with Node.js and Express
• How to Receive SMS Messages with Node.js and Express
• Receiving an SMS Delivery Receipt from a Mobile Carrier with Node.js
• Making an Outbound Text-to-Speech Phone Call with Node.js
• Handling Inbound Phone Calls with Node.js
• Recording Audio from Incoming Calls with Node.js
• How to Make a Private Phone Call with Node.js
• Extending IBM Watson Project Intu to the Phone Network with the Nexmo Voice API
• How to Implement Two-Factor Authentication with Node.js (Now unpublished & replaced with newer content by a current employee)

PubNub Docs and Tutorials — 2014 - 2016

• Docs: https://www.pubnub.com/docs/web-javascript/chat-fundamentals
• Blogs: https://www.pubnub.com/blog/author/tomomi/
• Prototyping a Smart Device w/ Arduino & Node.js using Johnny-Five
• Raspberry Pi Smart House Tutorial: Controlling Lights with PWM
• Internet of Things 101: Getting Started w/ Raspberry Pi
• Triggering littleBits LEDs with Node.js Using Johnny-Five
• Creating a Polymer Chat App with Material Design
• Sending iOS Push Notifications via APNS in JavaScript
• Sending Android Push Notifications via GCM in JavaScript
• Converting Your JavaScript App to an iOS App w/ PhoneGap
• Converting Your JavaScript App to an Android App w/ PhoneGap
• Quick Word Cloud from a Chatroom with D3.js
• Fun with D3js: Data Visualization Eye Candy with Streaming JSON
• Doodle with Strangers! Multi-User HTML5 Canvas and the Part 2 with History API

Scotch.io — February 2017

• Send SMS from the Browser with Web APIs, Node, and Nexmo

Arduino.cc — 2016

• Getting Started with Johnny-Five for IoT - on YouTube
• Prototyping a Smart Light Bulb - on YouTube

Dev Opera Blog — February 2015

• Working with Web Notifications using PubNub’s Realtime Data Stream

Twitter Developer Blog — December 2014

• Tweet emotion: real-time Tweet analysis with PubNub Data Stream

Tuts Plus Code — 2016

http://tutsplus.com/authors/tomomi-imura

• Building a Collaborative Web App With PubNub, React.js, and ES6
• Visualizing Real-Time Arduino Sensor Data With Johnny-Five and PubNub EON.js
• How to Create a Smart Device With Arduino and Node.js Using PubNub

HTML5 Experts.jp — 2014 - 2017

https://html5experts.jp/girlie_mac/ — 4 blog posts in Japanese

Nokia Code Blog — 2012 - 2014

Various HTML5 tutorials (developer.nokia.com - moved to Microsoft then shut down)

webOS Developer Blog — 2010 - 2012

Various webOS and enyo.js tutorials, focusing on UX (developer.palm.com - moved to Hewlett-Packard site then shut down)