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Apr 26, 2020

An enormous thank you to the whole #WomenofReact2020 organiser team for yesterdays' event! And to all the lovely React community members who came to hang out. Thrilling to find so many other potato & metaphor lovers out in the React community.

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If anyone missed the talk, here's the recording of it: youtu.be/K8MF3aDg-bM?t=

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All my high-res slides are posted on this Github repo:

github.com

GitHub - MaggieAppleton/react-metaphors-slides: Slides from my talk "Drawing the Invisible: React...

Slides from my talk "Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors" at Women of React Conf 2020 - GitHub - MaggieAppleton/react-metaphors-slides: Slides from my ...

If anyone decides to spend the rest of their quarantine developing official React-themed potato recipes, I don't think anyone is discouraging that ;) 🥔🥘🧀 Cheesy Component Casserole? DOM Dauphinoise? Suspenseful Scalloped Spuds? #PotatoReact

All the rest of the speakers in this lineup were fantastic, and you can watch all of them on that same YouTube video I've also now achieved life goal #54 of speaking at an event alongside

@eveporcello

. Still aspiring to her level of theatrical, storytelling charm though ;)

I'll be doing plenty more teaching, demo-ing, and soapboxing about visual metaphors in the coming months. How-to's on developing visual explanations, designing great metaphors, and making programming concepts more accessible through mediums other than text are all on the agenda

Speaking of,

and I have a course that teaches Javascript using diagrams and visual explanations at justjavascript.com (free!) No complex drawing skills were involved in making this :) Just circles, boxes, arrows, and some motion. Also, Dan's brain helps.

justjavascript.com

Just JavaScript

Just JavaScript will help you develop a rock-solid understanding of how JavaScript works through intuitive visual explanations and learning challenges.

Maggie

visting SFO

@Mappletons

Also, will be livestreaming with

@iamtylerwclark

on Tuesday (9am PST / 5pm BST) applying these same metaphor techniques while visually explaining Web Workers

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@iamtylerwclark

· Apr 1, 2020

New live streaming schedule alert

"Developing visual explanations - A live case study with web workers" with @Mappletons April 28, 10:00am MST Add to your calendar here: tylerclark.dev/live-with-tyle

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