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Posted onJune 2, 2022June 24, 20222007

Maker Faire 2007, Austin, Texas, part 1

by Elze

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…

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Posted onMarch 17, 2022April 3, 20222022

CSS-in-JS in React.js, using Material UI

by Elze

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…

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Posted onMarch 13, 2022March 13, 20222007

Robot Group at ArmadilloCon 2007

by Elze

As always, Robot Group — an Austin robotics organization — demoed their creatures at the ArmadilloCon. If I understood correctly, they made this purple alien…

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Posted onDecember 24, 2021December 24, 20212021

Deploying full stack applications with React.js and Express.js on Vercel

by Elze

Here is a presentation I gave at the Women Who Code frontend meetup in Austin, Texas. Deploying full stack applications with React.js and Express.js on…

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Posted onAugust 1, 2021August 1, 20212007

Futures Past steampunk party at SXSW 2007

by Elze

The “Futures Past” steampunk party was thrown by EFF and several other organizations at the SXSW conference on March 12, 2007 at Scholz Garden in…

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Posted onApril 4, 2021May 9, 20212006

ArmadilloCon 2006: various pictures and the Is Your Science Right? panel

by Elze

A con-goer named Melissa in the dealers’ room ArmadilloCon 2006 Fan guest Grant Kruger in the dealer room, in an outfit whose colors match the…

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Posted onSeptember 20, 2020September 22, 20202005

Linucon 2005: Pros and cons of the GNU General Public License

by Elze

Synopsis from Linucon program book: “The most popular open source license, the GPL, inspires controversy to this day. Eric Raymond recently expressed some ambivalence about…

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Posted onSeptember 19, 2020September 19, 20202005

Linucon 2005: Steve Jackson’s Chaos Machine

by Elze

Steve Jackson’s Chaos Machine is, to quote the convention program book, “a giant communal build-it-yourself project that’s a cross between an erector set, model trains,…

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Posted onSeptember 18, 2020September 18, 20202005

Linucon 2005: Robots

by Elze

  Austin’s own Robot Group — an organization of robotics enthusiasts — had a display of their robots at Linucon. Some robot enthusiasts also brought…

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Posted onSeptember 12, 2020September 12, 20202005

Linucon 2005: Customers Do The Craziest Things

by Elze

The title suggests this panel should have been stories from tech support front lines. It was a bit more general than that. The panelists and…

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