Maker Faire was a two-day event that celebrated arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. It took place in Austin, Texas in…
ArmadilloCon 2007: The Story Unwritten, Mythology / Schmytology, etc. A few quotes from ArmadilloCon 2007 From the panel “The story unwritten” “The Story Unwritten” was…
Description in the program book: Ever wonder why your favorite author looks a little scared when they see you? The panelists will talk about the…
Every ArmadilloCon has a world-building panel, where the panelists and the audience “create” a science-fictional or fantasy world by collective brainstorming. Artist R. Cat…
Two congoers in kilts at ArmadilloCon 2007. While kilts are popular at the ArmadilloCon and science fiction conventions in general, I had not until then…
There were several ArmadilloCon panels with slightly adult content. Some of them had great titles, such as “I Fell in Love with an Octopus”, which…
Here is a presentation I gave at the Women Who Code frontend meetup in Austin, Texas. CSS-in-JS in React.js, using Material UI I discovered the…
As always, Robot Group — an Austin robotics organization — demoed their creatures at the ArmadilloCon. If I understood correctly, they made this purple alien…
I’ve noticed over the years that some of the “What I Should Have Read” panelists have tastes so unlike mine, it’s as if we are…
At this ArmadilloCon I spent a substantial amount of time in the dealer room — on the dealers’ side of the table! I was volunteering…