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Monica

@monica.dev

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a web developer who believes the internet is a magical place for creators ✨ focused on building community & tech to elevate people. I 🫶🏾 teaching and experimenting with #CreativeCoding. https://www.aboutmonica.com • https://codepen.io/m0nica

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Monica @monica.dev · Nov 26

👋🏾 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.

Monica wearing a black blouse and denim jeans with leopard boots while striking a power pose under a willow looking tree.

Monica on stage presenting at React Summit US 2024 while wearing a purple mauve jumpsuit.

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Monica @monica.dev · 10d

Thanks Char! I really enjoyed your #virtualCCfest talk as well.

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Monica @monica.dev · 10d

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.

Poster for virtual CC Fest 9-28-2026 details & rsvp at https:/ccfest.rocks.

A poster for the "Virtual CC Fest" on September 28th, with a schedule running from 9 AM PDT to 12:30 PM PDT. The background is a grid of vertical and horizontal watercolor stripes in yellow, red, blue, and green. The title "virtual CC Fest" is in a red, pixelated font.

The schedule is as follows (all times PDT):

9:00 to 9:30 am: Welcome and opening keynote with Char Stiles

9:30 to 10:30 am: Workshop Round 1

Art, Code & Storytelling with p5.js by Missy Cooper

Your First Creative Coding Class - In a Post LLM world by Akanksha Vyas

Tracing the Storyline by Jesal Mehta

Spatial p5 - Live-Coding for Mixed Reality with p5.js by Tibor Udvari

Computational Thinking and Comics: The Magic of Fractal Gridding by Ecy Femi King

Power of the Portrait by Lisa Hauser

10:30 to 11:00 am: Stretch Break / Info session / Networking

CC Teacher Camp Info Session & Networking by Saber Khan

11:00 am to 12:00 pm: Workshop Round 2

Vibecoding and CS education - An open conversation by Paul Way

Closing the Circle by Jesal Mehta

Teaching and Learning with Web Spinner by Caleb Foss

AI Mirror Play by ash herr

3D printing with p5.js by Gair Subbraman

Digital Quilting Circle by Tess Ramsey

Stringing worms with type & code by Sai Ram Ved Vyapurapu

12:00 to 12:30 pm: Closing keynote and goodbye with Monica Powell

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Monica @monica.dev · 10d

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

screenshot of virtual cc fest coutdown showing the event will begin in 44 minutes and 45 seconds on September 28th, 2025

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Monica @monica.dev · 26d

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!

Saber Khan @saberkhan.bsky.social · 26d

#virtualCCFest features two amazing keynotes, @monica.dev, software engineer, community organizer, and @charstiles.bsky.social, computational artist, educator. All the details and RSVP at ccfest.rocks

A flier for CC Fest with the timing and website link.

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Saber Khan @saberkhan.bsky.social · Sep 2

#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.

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Monica @monica.dev · Mar 23

That’s great to hear. Thanks for sharing that! 😃

Monica @monica.dev · Mar 23

I’m least surprised by the appearances of Janelle Monáe, Simone Biles and Rihanna. Dr. Cristina Yang also makes sense since I’ve watched every single Grey’s Anatomy episode that she was in.

Monica @monica.dev · Mar 23

Based on my collection of memes and photos iOS classifies these celebs/notable figures under my “People”:

* Beyoncé
* President Obama (& “The Rock” Obama)
* Rihanna
* Issa Rae
* President Biden
* Taraji P Henson
* Simone Biles
* Janelle Monae
* Dr. Cristina Yang
* Redacted 🍊

Screenshot of Notable figures under Monica’s “people” in the iOS photo app.
* Beyoncé
* President Obama (& “The Rock” Obama)
* Rihanna
* Issa Rae
* President Biden
* Taraji P Henson
* Simone Biles
* Janelle Monae
* Dr. Cristina Yang
* not pictured: Redacted 🍊

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Jacque Schrag @jacqueschrag.com · Mar 18

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

Axios @axios.com · Mar 18

Parts of the U.S. will gain three hours or more of daylight between Thursday's spring equinox and the summer solstice on June 20, per NOAA's solar calculator.

How much daylight you're gaining as spring begins

Parts of the U.S. will gain 3 hours or more of daylight over the next few months.

www.axios.com

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Monica @monica.dev · Mar 18

Yikes! It seems like a security nightmare for someone to skip straight to using AI to build full-fledged SaaS applications.

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Monica @monica.dev · Mar 17

Thank you, that's really awesome! freeCodeCamp is an incredible community. I just sent you a message. ✉️

Monica @monica.dev · Mar 17

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...

Hello, IndieWeb 👋🏾

Some thoughts on tinkering around with my digital playground and getting more involved with the IndieWeb.

aboutmonica.com

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geneva @gdbee.bsky.social · Mar 12

you are not alone.

Illustration of an astronaut standing in a red and orange flower field, holding an old fashioned phone. The phone has a speech bubble that says, "you are not alone." Drawn by gdbeeart, 2025, paint tool sai

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Monica @monica.dev · Mar 16

I’m planning on borrowing some ideas from @simonwillison.net’s and the IndieWeb 🔖 Wiki for my link blog.

simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/...

indieweb.org/bookmark

My approach to running a link blog

I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” …

simonwillison.net

Monica @monica.dev · Mar 16

I think the next phase of my Webmention project will be setting up a linkblog to share my favorite content & bookmarks.

Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · Dec 22

(In my ideal world everyone would get their own link blog too, but sharing links on Bluesky and Mastodon is almost as good)

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Mar 15

Essential to remind that libraries are not just vital sources of knowledge and information but also excellent community centers devoted to under-served populations. Services for job-seekers, the blind, for senior citizens. They lend out books but also tech, cooking equipment, media players.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz.info · Mar 15

This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.

www.whitehouse.gov

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Monica @monica.dev · Mar 15

I mostly borrow e-books which don’t require a trip to the library. I started attending some community-hosted events at the library which has led me to visiting the library more and checking out their programming! I even started checking out physical books again.

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Jesse @misctakes.com · Jan 25

an xkcd comic with a precarious series of boxes and pipes haphazardly stacked on top of each other. A single little box at the bottom is holding up the whole thing. The top is labeled “all modern urban infrastructure” and the load bearing piece at the bottom is labeled “your local library” (in the original, the top was labeled “all modern digital infrastructure” and the bottom piece “a project some random person in nebraska has ben thanklessly maintaining since 2003”

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Monica @monica.dev · Mar 15

#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/

Virtual CC Fest is happening on March 15, 2025, from 9 AM to 1 PM PT (12–4 PM ET). The schedule includes a welcome keynote by Saskia Freeke at 9 AM, followed by two rounds of workshops covering topics like creative coding, AI, 3D printing, live coding, and machine learning. There is a check-in and keynote by Olivia Jack at 10:45 AM, and the event concludes with a closing keynote from Kawandeep Virdee at 12:15 PM.

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Saskia Freeke @saskiafreeke.bsky.social · Mar 12

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

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · Mar 8

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

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Mar 14

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 !

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Monica @monica.dev · Mar 15

I used @remysharp.com's handy CLI tool to send a handful of Webmentions to some people who shared helpful info about their Webmention implementation like @dwayne.xyz , @jamesg.blog.web.brid.gy, @localghost.dev & @petergoes.bsky.social. I'm still sorting out a flow for automatically sending these!

screenshot of terminal showing that I sent six webmentions from the CLI