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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 18/10/2025

Learning about UX and UI Design at NoVA Code Camp with @johnathayde.com

Slide deck that has the text UX and Design for Devs with a subtitle of Elevating our Product Experience

Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 18/10/2025

Made it to Reston for NoVA Code Camp! I'm looking forward to speaking about how you can learn the fundamentals of #functionalprogramming by solving a fun problem. If you're attending today, make sure to stop by the 9:30 session and say hi!

Slide deck with title of Learning FP Through Construction: First Principles

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 11/10/2025

All squared away for #ATLDEVCON! If you've recently started a job (or if you're a manager who's hiring people), come check out my session at 10am that goes over my approach for getting up to speed quickly on a new role!

Slide Deck displaying The Engineers Playbook: Starting a New Role written in white text on a salmon colored background

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 01/06/2025

Pleasantly surprised to find that the Lake Norman area has a baseball team, The Harbor Hippos! www.harborhippos.com

A cartoonist hippo, smiling wearing dark sunglasses and a blue hat with a capital H on it

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 28/05/2025

Working on the Udemy course and I'm blown away by the great artwork that @reverentgeek.com did! It looks great and will absolutely help me stand out. If you dig his style, why not work with him on your project? He's awesome!

Set of playing cards with TypeScript TS on the back, an Ace of Spades and 10 of Hearts showing and a stack of black poker chips with a white lambda symbol on a green background

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 14/05/2025

Looking through the show notes for this week's @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social and goodness, can't wait to hear what wonderful winding path we're going to take to get here.

What do Interstellar, Little Giants, and Grave of the Fireflies have in common?

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 02/05/2025

Pretty cool that you can use htmx to do service calls without using JS, I like the simplicity of this! @stirtrek.com

Eric showing a code snippet that would make a htmx code call to get HTML and replaced a particular div

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 02/05/2025

Learning about htmx with Eric Potter over at @stirtrek.com ! I've seen some cool stuff, but curious on his approach!

Eric Potter presenting on what htmx is all about

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 02/05/2025

Wrapped up my session at @stirtrek.com and looking to learn about emerging languages with Stephanie Wightman

Stephanie standing at a podium presenting at StirTrek

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 02/05/2025

Enjoying learning about the cool new changes with CSS and HTMLwith @kgrayson.com this morning. The nice things we can do with word wrap now is awesome!

Kathryn Grayson Nanz presenting at StirTrek on the new things you can do with HTML and CSS

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 02/05/2025

Absolutely enjoying my speaker gift for @stirtrek.com

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! Even though I don't live in East TN anymore, the mountains always feel like home to me.

Image of the Chilhowee Mountains outside Walland, Tennessee

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 21/11/2024

One of the more fun notifications I got when building out some Slack bot automations for my talk at connect.tech People resonate with stories so one of the things I tried this time was building a story around how the Justice League reached out to you to so you could help them automate their work

A message from Slack stating that Batman has sent Cameron a message.

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 19/11/2024

And.... We're gearing up for day 2 of Connect.Tech! Lots of good sessions on the docket for today, but if you're looking to learn how to build your own automation system, come check out my talk at 3pm in Salon E!

Cameron standing with a smile and holding his speaker badge for Connect.Tech

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 17/11/2024

A common issue I run into with most software is distributing horizontal space. Not the functionality, but which icon to click on. Take a look at the bottom row, super clear on what does what. Shout-out to lucidchart.com for making this super obvious!

The context menu from LucidChart when you go to align items. It contains clear icons for aligning left, center, right, by top, by middle, by bottom, and a clear icon for distributing vertical and horizontal space.

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 17/11/2024

I'm a big believer of telling stories as part of teaching and memes are a great way of helping the story go together. A sneak peek at the presentation I'm giving at Connect.Tech on Tuesday.

Batman slapping Robin meme where Robin is suggesting that we should check in our API tokens, but Batman is responding that's how our systems get compromised.

Drake Yes/No meme where Drake is saying no to hardcoded API tokens and yes to using .env files.

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 14/11/2024

Nice! I'm looking forward to recording a video on how you can use FP principles to tackle problems from Advent of Code! Shout out to Festive Tech Calendar for giving me the opportunity

An email from Festive Tech Calendar accepting a session called "Tackling Advent of Code with Functional Programming"

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 11/11/2024

It's taken me two weeks, tons of trials and errors, however, I finally figured out how to sharpen my chisels and plane such that I can get a buttery smooth cut on both face and end grain. (excuse the weird angle as you need two hands to plane)

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 10/11/2024

As an East Tennessee native, nothing sparks joy for me like seeing this. Tennessee #1 in the SEC. No clue how long it'll last, but I love to see it.

A list of the football teams in the South Eastern Conference where the Tennessee Volunteers are ranked #1

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 09/11/2024

And just like that, we've wrapped up the first Queen City Code Retreat! Had a great time pairing up and learning with fellow engineers in the area #community #leveling-up

Group of people around a conference table looking at software code on a projector

Group of people around a table looking at the requirements for a programming problem

Group of friends around a table outdoors enjoying good food and company

A group of five people working heads down on the Greeting kata

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 03/11/2024

One of the skills I've been learning this year is getting more comfortable with chisels and hand tools when it comes to wood working. I made my first attempt at a box joint yesterday and though its quite rough (working with pine and not quite sharp enough chisels will do that), good lessons learned

Person holding two pieces of pine that are connected with a box joint

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 01/11/2024

It took me a bit longer than expected, but I accomplished a first, submitted a training course to Udemy! Now just waiting for the approval. I'm sure there are things that I could do better, but I learned a ton about editing video and how to organize my thoughts to cover a complex topic

Udemy message stating that I've submitted a course for review on November 1st

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Cameron Presley @thesoftwarementor.com · 26/10/2024

Still waiting for the glue to dry, but got one task done this weekend, putting together a new woodworking workbench. I'm looking forward to trying it out this weekend before making the trip to All Things Open

Carpentry bench that's been recently constructed

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