I got my first (viable) draft of the abstract for my return to the speaking game done. It only took me 3 years of saying I was going to do it. 😮‍💨

magnolia conf’s shop is back up and less sketchy now thanks to the great support folks at Fourthwall (and @richard.sween.dev)! we’ve still got plenty of anti javascript merch and we’ll put leftover code cauldrons cornbread conference shirts up sometime soon. shop.magnoliaconf.com

Welp it's official, I'm on the hunt for my next role. I learned a lot in the past 8 months, and I'm ready to get back out there for my next role. If you're looking for someone for devrel/devrel-adjacent roles, I got over a decade of experience in developer relations and ready help your team!

Keeping this going because we are almost to the end goal. I appreciate all who have donated and grateful for that support. Just a little more to go to end goal. Please repost, thank you.

gonna print this baby out and hold it up like it’s a fish in a man’s dating profile pic

🤢 doing something important + urgent 🌈😍✨🌸 doing something that feels productive but secretly isn’t

coming home to a busted AC unit is just… 🫠

it’s so fun showing folks my silly little app that I made in like 2 days for my niece and watching them download it right in front of me anyway today it was Kent C. Dodds so that was cool 😊 in case you’re interested: apps.apple.com/us/app/doodl...

Dr. Dan Edney, Mississippi’s State Health Officer, is no longer a candidate to lead the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. He faced opposition from allies of U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for his strong support for vaccines and medical science. buff.ly/gIkknM8

Hey y’all! We wanted to give you a quick update on the state of Magnolia Conf and what things look like moving forward. Tl;dr - No Magnolia Conf this year, we’re looking at plans for 2027 The long version 👇

spent too long yesterday asking “am I dumb or is php dumb?” in a shocking turn of events, the answer was neither. javascript was the problem all along.

wtf @discord.com 😒

On the 23rd day of this month, two of the best people you know were born (obvs me and @toddl.dev)! The only thing I want for my birthday from y’all this year is to get Todd’s fundraiser for his partner Paula to 100% to help her pay her medical bills. www.gofundme.com/f/fundraiser...

On the 23rd day of this month, two of the best people you know were born (obvs me and @toddl.dev)! The only thing I want for my birthday from y’all this year is to get Todd’s fundraiser for his partner Paula to 100% to help her pay her medical bills. www.gofundme.com/f/fundraiser...

An update from Paula gofund.me/f6f547e2a

first time attempt at doing dual form nails. I’ve never done any kind of extension on my nails so I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out 😊 #coderclaws

I am so sick of Jeff Lebby

Folks, it’s almost December. USE. YOUR. BENEFITS. Book a massage every day. Go to the dentist. Get your glasses. Talk to a therapist god knows you need to. If you don’t use your benefits the capitalists are stealing from you. USE YOUR BENEFITS.

locals, if y’all get over to Little Haiti Caribbean before I do let me know how it is 👀

ngl I appreciate being included but there’s not much I hate more in this world than getting added to huge group chats it only succeeds in training me to not read or respond to texts by overwhelming me with notifications 🫠

LOCALS, Weird Al will be at the Brandon Amphitheater

okay folks who have had Invisalign... what should I expect? any tips/tricks?

lol BRO are you shitting me right now

Since people in Congress folded to Velveeta Voldemort, I have to get back to the grind double time. My partner needs help. We are 54% to our goal. I’ll have an update done tomorrow on the GoFundMe page, but if you would please share and or donate we would be grateful. Thanks. gofund.me/bb9182fa2

Or even better. Hire me. I can do whatever it is your company does and I can deliver. I may be older but I’m not ready to be taken out behind the wood shed and put down just yet. So hire me and see what I can do on your team. Development is my bread and butter.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Kim Davis' call to overturn its 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. www.mississippifreepress.org/us-supreme-c...

good morning 😌

NEW: Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the state Senate tonight for the first time since 2011. It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat. “Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.

BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election. DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg. His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority. www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...

I was Rumi again while kids were coming around trick-or-treating yesterday and one kid asked if I was real. I told them I’m a real person but I’m not really Rumi. 🤭 but the neighborhood kids (and parents) loved it. I saw one other Rumi (Golden outfit) and two Miras (one Golden, one How It’s Done) 🥰

Now that my photos app works again, and I'm excited for the kids to think I'm hip tonight, I can share our Huntr/x and Bobby costumes from @magnolia.boo Featuring @kayla.ooo @kgrayson.com and @richard.sween.dev

happy halloween! go donate to your local food bank!

Feeding America has a page where you can input your zip code and it'll show you all of the food banks near you overlaid on a map. If you need it, it's there. If you don't need it, think about donating money if you have it and your time if you don't. www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

I wish I could convince my health insurance company that I did, in fact, get both my flu and COVID vaccines this season so they can stop calling me about them AND they would have known that already if they had covered them in the first place 🙃

donated to Stewpot last night. locals, if you're able: - Stewpot: stewpot-community-services.networkforgood.com/projects/906... - MS Food Network: www.msfoodnet.org

Thank you everyone at Magnolia Conf this weekfor pushing us over the 50% mark of our goal. A lot more work to do, but we will reach our goal! gofund.me/1308eef90

great news update: I had a lot of water and took a nap

so fun fact if you don’t drink a ton of water one day and don’t sleep great for a few days in a row, your body doesn’t like it who knew?

Mothman meets Hexflector by James Seawright

More to follow, but we (@kayla.ooo and @richard.sween.dev ) want to thank everyone who was a part of #MagnoliaConf this year. It was so great bringing everyone to Jackson for a week of code, cauldrons, and cornbread. Videos will be edited and posted to YouTube soon!

Y’all are really missing out if you aren’t at the Progress hackathon today!!! Rumor has it the winner gets a Switch 2 👀

Time for another post. We have moved the needle ever-so-slightly but we need to push this over the 50% mark and beyond! Please share and if you can (or haven’t) please donate. All shares and donations are always greatly appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/fundraiser...

👻 IT'S ALMOST TIME!!! 🎃 We're only 1 days away from MagnoliaConf 2025! Have you grabbed your tickets yet? Don't miss out on the spookiest tech event of the year! https://www.tixtree.com/e/magnolia-conf-453fc7ea2496

when given the chance to go see T-Pain, you go see T-Pain

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

#NoKings Jackson, MS

Jackson MS bigger than the last no kings day.

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.