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@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. www.aboutmonica.com • codepen.io/m0nica

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Monica @monica.dev · 09/09/2026
It was giving Monday energy all morning.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@badnetworker

1999: there are millions of websites all hyperlinked together

2019: there are four websites, each filled with screenshots of the other three.
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Monica @monica.dev · 07/09/2026
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. 😍
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Kiki's Delivery Service: Kiki Relaxing on Hill
Alt: Kiki's Delivery Service: Kiki Relaxing on Hill
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Monica @monica.dev · 07/09/2026
+1. I like double checking my charges before leaving 🫣. Occasionally, I’ve had discrepancies that were easy to fix in person.
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Monica @monica.dev · 07/09/2026
I have one and am still not quite sure how to use it.
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Monica @monica.dev · 07/09/2026
Did you end up muting related buzzwords alongside “AI”?
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Monica @monica.dev · 27/07/2026
I miss the World Wide Web that I grew up on and fell in love with.
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Monica @monica.dev · 13/10/2025
A time was had!
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a black and white photo of a woman wearing a necklace and bracelet
Alt: Rihanna in Black & White showing off her nails
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AV 🦋 @adriannavaldivia.dev · 12/10/2025
Wonderful 4 day weekend, @monica.dev came to visit me 🥰
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Monica @monica.dev · 13/10/2025
Yessssss! I’m working on getting back into my Pilates era.
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Monica @monica.dev · 28/09/2025
Thanks Char! I really enjoyed your #virtualCCfest talk as well.
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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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 · 28/09/2025
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 · 28/09/2025
#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 · 12/09/2025
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!
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Saber Khan @saberkhan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
#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 · 23/03/2025
That’s great to hear. Thanks for sharing that! 😃
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Monica @monica.dev · 23/03/2025
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.
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Monica @monica.dev · 23/03/2025
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 · 18/03/2025
Grateful for small joys these days, like a little more sunlight every day. Fun little map I made last week 📊
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Monica @monica.dev · 18/03/2025
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 · 17/03/2025
Thank you, that's really awesome! freeCodeCamp is an incredible community. I just sent you a message. ✉️
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Monica @monica.dev · 17/03/2025
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...
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Hello, IndieWeb 👋🏾
Some thoughts on tinkering around with my digital playground and getting more involved with the IndieWeb.
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geneva 🖍️ nycc soon @gdbee.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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 · 16/03/2025
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
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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” …
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Monica @monica.dev · 16/03/2025
I think the next phase of my Webmention project will be setting up a linkblog to share my favorite content & bookmarks.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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.
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Monica @monica.dev · 15/03/2025
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 again @misctakes.com · 25/01/2025
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 · 15/03/2025
#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 · 12/03/2025
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 · 08/03/2025
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 · 14/03/2025
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 · 15/03/2025
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
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Monica @monica.dev · 14/03/2025
I've been playing around with adjusting my Webmention workflow all week! Here's an overview of my current Webmention implementation and how I'm using GitHub Actions to review incoming Webmentions. aboutmonica.com/blog/automat...
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Fetch Webmentions Automatically with GitHub Actions
An overview of how in addition to using Brid.gy and Webmentions.io I’m adding GitHub Actions and soon Webmentions.app (or its closely related CLI tool) to automate updating my website with the latest ...
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Monica @monica.dev · 13/03/2025
In addition to the Clifford Attractor formula, Paul Bourke has a whole collection of fractals, chaos, and attractors: paulbourke.net/fractals/
Screenshot of Paul Bourke's collection of fractals featuring:
Chen Lee Attractor
Polynomial Attractors
N Attractor
Juan Attractor
Random Attractors
VR Attractor
Burke-Shaw Attractor
Yu-Wang Attractor
Chen-Celikovsky Attractor
Four Wing Attractor
Tscs Attractor
Sprott Attractor
Arneodo Attractor
Lace
Wallpaper
Peter de Jong Attractor
Clifford Attractor
Henon Map
Gingerbread Man
Henon Phase Diagrams
Gumowski-Mira Attractor
Grinch Dragon
Ikeda Attractor
Coral Dragon
Twon Dragon
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Monica @monica.dev · 13/03/2025
There's no shortage of ways math can be used in #CreativeCoding to generate visuals, like this donut-shaped Clifford Attractor that uses linear interpolation for color distribution. 🎨 aboutmonica.com/blog/craftin... 🍩 paulbourke.net/fractals/cli...
 donut-shaped variation of the Clifford Attractor with a purple-pink gradient
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Monica @monica.dev · 12/03/2025
When I lived in NYC I loved visiting The Strand bookstore. They have miles of books to explore and nice deals on used books. I wish I had spent more time at NYPL and BPL!
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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 25/02/2025
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/
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How Git Works
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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.
restoredcdc.org
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 10/03/2025
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...
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At SXSW, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber pokes fun at Mark Zuckerberg with Latin phrase T-shirt | TechCrunch
When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber walked on stage at SXSW 2025 for her keynote discussion, she wore a large black T-shirt with her hair pulled back into a bun.
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ceora ✨ @ceeoreo.dev · 04/03/2025
Hi everyone! Here to announce that Friday was my last day at Auth0/Okta. I’m excited to be looking for my new role though! I’m interested in: ⭐️ Technical writing ⭐️ Developer education/advocacy ⭐️ Developer marketing ⭐️ Technical program management Reposts much appreciated!!🔁 More details below✨
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Monica @monica.dev · 12/03/2025
Today I wrangled with Cloudflare's security settings to allow Brid.gy to read my site to know where to send my webmentions, rewrote how I'm fetching/storing mentions & automated GitHub Actions 🤖 to open a Pull Request with new mentions for me to review based off of: www.petergoes.nl/blog/review-...
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Bridgy
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🌸 Mariel @mariel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Also this gif has now followed me to three or four different machines now because SPARKLES: aboutmonica.com/blog/how-to-...
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How to Make Your VSCode Sparkle
This article shows you how to customize your VSCode set up to display animated sparkles while you are typing. There's a VSCode extension, Power Mode that adds animated flair while you're typing. It ha...
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Monica @monica.dev · 11/03/2025
I've been tidying up my @astro.build site with @zod.dev & Astro's content collection schema functionality. aboutmonica.com/blog/organiz...
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Organizing Content with Astro Content Schemas
With Astro's Content Collection Schema functionality, you can enforce structured, uniform tags to keep your content organized and SEO-friendly. In this post, we’ll dive into how you can define and val...
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Monica @monica.dev · 10/03/2025
Thank you everyone who helped me test my BlueSky + webmentions integration! 💜 bsky.app/profile/moni...
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Monica @monica.dev · 10/03/2025
I've re-wired webmentions on my site, so now likes and mentions of my articles on @bsky.app will (eventually*) appear on my site! *It's not fully automated yet, because I ran into an issue with Cloudflare's bot protection blocking brid.gy requests 🤖
a screenshot of Monica's webmentions appearing below one of her articles and it includes a post she made on BlueSky.
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Monica @monica.dev · 10/03/2025
Good news! This mention showed up on @ap.brid.gy but now I need to sort out how to funnel the data to webmention.io. Then we'll be in business. I'm currently displaying some of my older webmentions.
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Monica @monica.dev · 09/03/2025
I'm testing sending WebMentions from BlueSky to my (new-ish) Astro site. Testing 1,2,3... aboutmonica.com/blog/getting...
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Getting Started With Webmention and NextJS
An overview of setting up Webmention on a NextJS site to collect comments from across the decentralized social web (i.e., Twitter, GitHub, Pinterest, Reddit) in a centralized place.
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