Megan Sullivan articles - 26 total
Quick Wins to Make Your Content More Accessible
It's Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Here are 3 tips to help content creators make their websites more accessible for disabled people.
How to Run a Sprint Retrospective
Introduction Businesses want teams to work together effectively so that they can produce...
How to run a 360 Speedback
Introduction We all need feedback to help us grow. As Sarah Drasner says in her book,...
Switching between zsh Themes with a Shell Command
Introduction When you're recording a screencast for your latest piece of educational...
#DevEdBookClub Round 3: Teaching Tech Together
It's time for our next round of our Twitter book club, and you're invited! Each week, we'll host a...
My Reading List for Developer Educators
Getting started as a content creator or developer educator? These are my top 9 recommended resources for anyone interested in learning and education.
Docs for Everyone!
5 tips for building a high-quality documentation site that works for both newcomers and power users.
#DevEdBookClub Round 2: The Programmer's Brain
It's time for our next round of our Twitter book club, and you're invited! Each week, we'll host a...
Join our #DevEdBookClub!
TL;DR We're starting a book club, and you're invited! Each week, we'll host a Twitter chat...
How to be a Better Learner
Learning new things is hard. This illustrated post talks about some evidence-based strategies you can use to make it easier.
Tips for Teaching a Remote Workshop
Introduction Last month, I co-facilitated a four-hour workshop at GatsbyConf. Although I'v...
Nevertheless, Megan Coded
Hi! I'm Megan. My pronouns are she/her. I've been a professional software developer since 2018, but I...
An Intro to RSS Feeds [Illustrated]
Introduction RSS feeds are a great low-lift way to keep your readers up to date with your...
Tips for Teaching Remote Workshops?
I'm used to running workshops in person, where it's easier to interact with attendees and gauge wheth...
How to Add an RSS Feed to Your Gatsby Site
Introduction As a content creator, you want to make it easy for your readers to stay updat...
Feedback on the official Gatsby tutorial?
My next big project at Gatsby is updating our Tutorial. So I'm looking for feedback from the communit...
[Sketchnote] Visibility in CSS
Introduction There are multiple ways to toggle visiblity in CSS. Personally, I didn't real...
[Sketchnote] Why Use GraphQL?
Introduction Since I started working at Gatsby, I've been learning more about GraphQL. One...
Ways to Use Up Your Professional Development Budget
Introduction It's almost the end of 2020 (yay!), which means it's time to make sure you've...
[Sketchnote] Web Storage APIs: How Browsers Store Data
Browsers have two built-in ways to store data: sessionStorage and localStorage. ⚠️ Don't use eith...
Accessible Sketchnotes?
I want to start making and sharing sketchnotes, but I’m not sure the best way to make them accessible...
Documentation, Scaffolding, and Paper Mario
Introduction A few weeks ago, I started playing Paper Mario: The Origami King. It's the...
What Git/GitHub topics do you struggle with most?
I'm working on an Intro to Git/GitHub series for newcomers to version control and open source. Help m...
A Deep Dive on Managing Focus with React, Jest, and Enzyme
What You Will Learn By the end of this article, you will be able to: Explain what focus...
3 Teaching Techniques to Make You a Better Consultant
Before I became a developer, I was an educator. After college, I served a year as a City Year AmeriCo...
Meet the Game Boy Instruction Set
Like many people my age, I grew up on Nintendo handheld gaming systems. As I've gotten older and that...