Speaking
If you want me to talk about using Svelte with GraphQL, the Jamstack or anything else get in touch.
Recent talks, workshops and appearances
Here’s the list of talks, podcasts and livestreams I have done recently.
Jamstack Conf Workshop - 2021 October
Jamstack Conference workshop Building with Svelte and GraphQL
Jamstack Explorers - 2021 October
Jamstack explorers mission on building a production ready Svelte project with Svelte
Eddie Jaoude - 2021 September
Livestream with Eddie Jaoude where we made a full stack CRUD app with Svelte.
Developers Hangout - 2021 September
Chatting with James Perkins about Dev Rel
Purrfect.dev - 2021 Jul
Delivering Digital Content with GraphCMS
UtkalHacks 3.0 - 2021 March
Building a blog using GatsbyJS and MDX, Build a Gatsby blog with MDX and Theme UI
MMT Tech Meet-up - 2021 Feb
I Have a Hammer, I was invited to talk about MDX at the MMT Gatsby meetup.
Slides here: https://i-have-a-hammer.vercel.app/
Scale by the Bay - 2020 November 13th
Spreading the Jamstack, I was invited to talk about the jamstack at Scale by the Bay.
Slides here: https://ss10.dev/jam-talk
Whiskey Wednesday - 2020 October 7th
Episode #10 - Mentioning, Finding a mentor when starting out as a beginner (and also after) is important and not always an easy task. In this episode, we will talk about everything you need to know when looking for a mentor, or becoming a mentor.
Mintbean - Markdown Showdown, 2020 September 28th
Markdown Showdown: all the things I know about markdown a 1-hour Markdown primer, which will lead into using Markdown with a Gatsby blog with MDX.
Whiskey Wednesday - 2020 September 23rd
Episode #9 - a11y (Accessibility), Accessibility is an important part of every website and every developer should try implementing at least the most important accessibility features.
We will talk about what accessibility actually is, why it is important, and how to implement it.
Whiskey Wednesday - 2020 September 9th
Episode #8 - Content Creation, Whether it’s blog posts, video courses, live streams, or books - content creation is BIG, also for developers.
Migrating Gatsby from Markdown to MDX - 2020 September
Brad Garropy (Live Stream), I joined Brad to talk him through setting up MDX Embed and ironing out some of the issues he was having after transitioning his site over to MDX from Markdown Remark.
Whiskey Wednesday - 2020 August 26th
Episode #7 - Mental Wellbeing As A Developer, Becoming and being a developer is not an easy task. Many challenges await us in the daily battle. It’s important to keep good mental wellbeing. We will talk about common problems among developers.
Whiskey Wednesday - 2020 August 12th
Episode #6 - Developer fitness, It’s not always easy to stay healthy as a developer. Especially because you are sitting in front of a desk for at least 8 hours a day. With our guests who are experts in fitness, we will find out what you can do to become a healthier developer.
Whiskey Wednesday - 2020 July 29th
Episode #5 - Down the CSS rabbit hole, In this episode, we will discuss CSS. There are entirely different worlds of CSS out there. One is positioning elements and making a pretty button. But there is this other world. The one where complete art pieces are done with just a single div element (or less). We talk about all of it.
Whiskey Wednesday - 2020 July 15th
Episode 4: How To Use Twitter For Yourself As A Developer, In this episode, we talk about how to get the most out of Twitter as a developer and how to grow your account.
Whiskey Wednesday - 2020 July 1st
Episode 3: Freelancing As A Web Developer, In this episode, we have some freelancing experts on the show to tell us how to get started, what to look out for, and how to enjoy the whole process of doing freelance work.
Whiskey Wednesday - 2020 June 25th
Episode 2: Learning and Unlearning How To Code, In this episode, we have some fantastic guests with different coding backgrounds that will talk with us about how to learn (and unlearn) how to code 💻📚
The Front End podcast
A podcast that explores the in’s and out’s of life as a developer. For the final episode in season one I talk to Rob Kendal and share my path into development from VBA analyst to web developer. Unsurprisingly I’m talking about the Jamstack and Gatsby JS.
Gatsby Recipes and MDX with James Q Quick (Live Stream) - 2020 June 15th
I joined James Q Quick to talk about Gatsby Recipes and MDX. We talk through what Recipes are, how useful they can be, and how to use them. We also spend a significant amount of time talking about the power of using MDX, which allows you to embed React components right inside of your Markdown.
Whiskey Wednesday - 2020 June 10th
Episode 1: Coding Motivation, In this episode, we talk with Danny Thompson and Eddy Vinck about coding motivation and whether or not you need a college degree to get a job in tech.
JS Roundabout - 2020 March
MMT Tech Meet-up - 2020 Jan
API Days London - 2019 Nov
I was asked by Jesse Martin from GraphCMS if I would like to do a talk at API Days London so I jumped at the chance!
Internal Engineering talk - 2019 Sep
I was asked to brief the Karmarama and Fjord engineering teams on what the Jamstack is and the advantages of using it.