Monica

👋🏾 It's lovely to see so many new faces so let me introduce myself! I'm a software engineer who's excited to join a social network that values how the open web makes the internet a magical place for creators. I'm currently building educational software and experimenting with creative coding.

Also:

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Not a single word of this is hyperbolic in the slightest. Buy your friends in cybersecurity the drink or chocolate of their choice right now. We are not doing well

Security through obscurity is a terrible principle but in practice a lot of things didn't get hacked bc people ignored them, or didn't know they existed, or just generally got missed. AI makes it easy to probe all of these things at scale + makes it easier to find/develop exploits

I just received an email that the Grace Hopper Celebration scheduled for later this month has officially been cancelled 😢. When I was a student I had such an incredible experience attending GHC with my university’s Women in Computer Science (WiCS) organization.

I'm looking forward to exploring the @codepen.io API. I've set up a selection of CodePen demos on my personal site, but they're forks that either diverge or have to be manually kept in sync. The API will let me use my local development workflow to keep self-hosted and CodePen-hosted pens in sync.

I’m doubling-down on my physical media collection and forgot how DVDs/Blu-Ray include bonus content. I love that I can watch the animated movie along with feature-length storyboards and avoid subscribing to another service. 😍

I miss the World Wide Web that I grew up on and fell in love with.

Wonderful 4 day weekend, @monica.dev came to visit me 🥰

Great closing keynote from @monica.dev !! Full of really good advice for all creative coders. Check it out when the recordings come out! #virtualCCfest

A few years ago, I attended #virtualCCFest for the first time and left inspired! Today, I will be delivering the closing keynote at CC Fest. I'm looking forward to sharing my love of creative coding and encouraging others to archive (and share!) their creative work.

#virtualCCFest is kicking off soon! It's a free, virtual creative coding festival, and there's still time to register at: ccfest.rocks

I’ll be speaking at Creative Coding Fest! It’s free, fun, and open to anyone who wants to explore creative coding. Hope to see you there!

#virtualCCFest is back on Sunday, Sept 28, with amazing keynotes and workshops on creative coding lined-up. You can see and details and RSVP at ccfest.rocks. If you donate your funds will go to support the costs of the free event, Zoom licenses and small stipends for presenters and keynotes.

Grateful for small joys these days, like a little more sunlight every day. Fun little map I made last week 📊

For a while I've viewed my website as my digital playground, so naturally last week's Webmention adventure—plus all the amazing blogs I've been diving into via RSS lately —have me wanting to get more involved with the #IndieWeb community. aboutmonica.com/blog/hello-i...

you are not alone.

#VirtualCCFest is happening tomorrow, and it looks like registration is still open! If you're interested in #CreativeCoding, this free event is a great way to spend your Saturday learning and getting inspired by fellow creators. Sign up here: ccfest.rocks/register/

This Saturday, 15 March, I'm invited by #virtualCCFest to give a talk about my creative coding journey (and my ten years of daily art project). Lots of more exciting keynotes and workshops will be hosted online; so do tune in! ccfest.rocks

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

We don't spend a penny on marketing. It's all word of mouth for @costplusdrugs.com That's how we keep prices so low. Please spread the word !

I noticed someone mentioning that they couldn't afford "How Git Works" right now. we have a "buy one give one" program where we give away 1 free copy for every zine sold. You can use code BUYONEGIVEONE to get a free PDF copy of How Git Works if $12 is a lot for you. wizardzines.com/zines/git/

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

at sxsw, @jay.bsky.team pokes fun at mark zuckerberg by mimicking a version of a t-shirt he designed for himself, which said "aut zuck aut nihil" (either zuck or nothing, like "aut caesar aut nihil"). jay's shirt? "mundus sine caesaribus" (a world without caesars). techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/a...

Also this gif has now followed me to three or four different machines now because SPARKLES: aboutmonica.com/blog/how-to-...

I've been tidying up my @astro.build site with @zod.dev & Astro's content collection schema functionality. aboutmonica.com/blog/organiz...

Virtual #CCFest returns on March 15th! 🎉 It's a free, welcoming event with keynote talks & hands-on technical workshops for anyone curious about #CreativeCoding with tools like p5js and hydra.

There are so many lovely details on @leanrada.com like this article which features an interactive custom web component that renders the Lily58 keyboard layout and allows readers to toggle between keyboard layers. leanrada.com/notes/my-per...