Monica

a black and white photo of a woman wearing a necklace and bracelet Alt: Rihanna in Black & White showing off her nails

A time was had!

Wonderful 4 day weekend, @monica.dev came to visit me 🥰

Yessssss! I’m working on getting back into my Pilates era.

Thanks Char! I really enjoyed your #virtualCCfest talk as well.

Great closing keynote from @monica.dev !! Full of really good advice for all creative coders. Check it out when the recordings come out!
#virtualCCfest

Poster for virtual CC Fest 9-28-2026 details & rsvp at https:/ccfest.rocks.

A poster for the "Virtual CC Fest" on September 28th, with a schedule running from 9 AM PDT to 12:30 PM PDT. The background is a grid of vertical and horizontal watercolor stripes in yellow, red, blue, and green. The title "virtual CC Fest" is in a red, pixelated font. The schedule is as follows (all times PDT): 9:00 to 9:30 am: Welcome and opening keynote with Char Stiles 9:30 to 10:30 am: Workshop Round 1 Art, Code & Storytelling with p5.js by Missy Cooper Your First Creative Coding Class - In a Post LLM world by Akanksha Vyas Tracing the Storyline by Jesal Mehta Spatial p5 - Live-Coding for Mixed Reality with p5.js by Tibor Udvari Computational Thinking and Comics: The Magic of Fractal Gridding by Ecy Femi King Power of the Portrait by Lisa Hauser 10:30 to 11:00 am: Stretch Break / Info session / Networking CC Teacher Camp Info Session & Networking by Saber Khan 11:00 am to 12:00 pm: Workshop Round 2 Vibecoding and CS education - An open conversation by Paul Way Closing the Circle by Jesal Mehta Teaching and Learning with Web Spinner by Caleb Foss AI Mirror Play by ash herr 3D printing with p5.js by Gair Subbraman Digital Quilting Circle by Tess Ramsey Stringing worms with type & code by Sai Ram Ved Vyapurapu 12:00 to 12:30 pm: Closing keynote and goodbye with Monica Powell

A few years ago, I attended #virtualCCFest for the first time and left inspired! Today, I will be delivering the closing keynote at CC Fest. I'm looking forward to sharing my love of creative coding and encouraging others to archive (and share!) their creative work.

screenshot of virtual cc fest coutdown showing the event will begin in 44 minutes and 45 seconds on September 28th, 2025

#virtualCCFest is kicking off soon! It's a free, virtual creative coding festival, and there's still time to register at: ccfest.rocks

I’ll be speaking at Creative Coding Fest! It’s free, fun, and open to anyone who wants to explore creative coding. Hope to see you there!

#virtualCCFest is back on Sunday, Sept 28, with amazing keynotes and workshops on creative coding lined-up. You can see and details and RSVP at ccfest.rocks. If you donate your funds will go to support the costs of the free event, Zoom licenses and small stipends for presenters and keynotes.

That’s great to hear. Thanks for sharing that! 😃

I’m least surprised by the appearances of Janelle Monáe, Simone Biles and Rihanna. Dr. Cristina Yang also makes sense since I’ve watched every single Grey’s Anatomy episode that she was in.

Screenshot of Notable figures under Monica’s “people” in the iOS photo app. * Beyoncé * President Obama (& “The Rock” Obama) * Rihanna * Issa Rae * President Biden * Taraji P Henson * Simone Biles * Janelle Monae * Dr. Cristina Yang * not pictured: Redacted 🍊

Based on my collection of memes and photos iOS classifies these celebs/notable figures under my “People”:

* Beyoncé
* President Obama (& “The Rock” Obama)
* Rihanna
* Issa Rae
* President Biden
* Taraji P Henson
* Simone Biles
* Janelle Monae
* Dr. Cristina Yang
* Redacted 🍊

Grateful for small joys these days, like a little more sunlight every day. Fun little map I made last week 📊

Yikes! It seems like a security nightmare for someone to skip straight to using AI to build full-fledged SaaS applications.

Thank you, that's really awesome! freeCodeCamp is an incredible community. I just sent you a message. ✉️

For a while I've viewed my website as my digital playground, so naturally last week's Webmention adventure—plus all the amazing blogs I've been diving into via RSS lately —have me wanting to get more involved with the #IndieWeb community.

aboutmonica.com/blog/hello-i...

Illustration of an astronaut standing in a red and orange flower field, holding an old fashioned phone. The phone has a speech bubble that says, "you are not alone." Drawn by gdbeeart, 2025, paint tool sai

you are not alone.

My approach to running a link blog I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” …

I’m planning on borrowing some ideas from @simonwillison.net’s and the IndieWeb 🔖 Wiki for my link blog.

simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/...

indieweb.org/bookmark

I think the next phase of my Webmention project will be setting up a linkblog to share my favorite content & bookmarks.

Essential to remind that libraries are not just vital sources of knowledge and information but also excellent community centers devoted to under-served populations. Services for job-seekers, the blind, for senior citizens. They lend out books but also tech, cooking equipment, media players.

I mostly borrow e-books which don’t require a trip to the library. I started attending some community-hosted events at the library which has led me to visiting the library more and checking out their programming! I even started checking out physical books again.

#VirtualCCFest is happening tomorrow, and it looks like registration is still open! If you're interested in #CreativeCoding, this free event is a great way to spend your Saturday learning and getting inspired by fellow creators.

Sign up here: ccfest.rocks/register/

This Saturday, 15 March, I'm invited by #virtualCCFest to give a talk about my creative coding journey (and my ten years of daily art project). Lots of more exciting keynotes and workshops will be hosted online; so do tune in! ccfest.rocks

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

We don't spend a penny on marketing. It's all word of mouth for @costplusdrugs.com

That's how we keep prices so low. Please spread the word !

screenshot of terminal showing that I sent six webmentions from the CLI

I used @remysharp.com's handy CLI tool to send a handful of Webmentions to some people who shared helpful info about their Webmention implementation like @dwayne.xyz , @jamesg.blog.web.brid.gy, @localghost.dev & @petergoes.bsky.social. I'm still sorting out a flow for automatically sending these!

Fetch Webmentions Automatically with GitHub Actions An overview of how in addition to using Brid.gy and Webmentions.io I’m adding GitHub Actions and soon Webmentions.app (or its closely related CLI tool) to automate updating my website with the latest ...

I've been playing around with adjusting my Webmention workflow all week! Here's an overview of my current Webmention implementation and how I'm using GitHub Actions to review incoming Webmentions. aboutmonica.com/blog/automat...

Screenshot of Paul Bourke's collection of fractals featuring: Chen Lee Attractor Polynomial Attractors N Attractor Juan Attractor Random Attractors VR Attractor Burke-Shaw Attractor Yu-Wang Attractor Chen-Celikovsky Attractor Four Wing Attractor Tscs Attractor Sprott Attractor Arneodo Attractor Lace Wallpaper Peter de Jong Attractor Clifford Attractor Henon Map Gingerbread Man Henon Phase Diagrams Gumowski-Mira Attractor Grinch Dragon Ikeda Attractor Coral Dragon Twon Dragon

In addition to the Clifford Attractor formula, Paul Bourke has a whole collection of fractals, chaos, and attractors:

paulbourke.net/fractals/