Thread by @Mappletons

An enormous thank you to the whole #WomenofReact2020 organiser team for yesterdays' event!

And to all the lovely React community members who came to hang out.

Thrilling to find so many other potato & metaphor lovers out in the React community.

If anyone missed the talk, here's the recording of it:

All my high-res slides are posted on this Github repo: github.com/MaggieAppleton…

If anyone decides to spend the rest of their quarantine developing official React-themed potato recipes, I don't think anyone is discouraging that ;)
🥔🥘🧀
Cheesy Component Casserole? DOM Dauphinoise? Suspenseful Scalloped Spuds?

#PotatoReact

All the rest of the speakers in this lineup were fantastic, and you can watch all of them on that same YouTube video

I've also now achieved life goal #54 of speaking at an event alongside @eveporcello.
Still aspiring to her level of theatrical, storytelling charm though ;)

I'll be doing plenty more teaching, demo-ing, and soapboxing about visual metaphors in the coming months.

How-to's on developing visual explanations, designing great metaphors, and making programming concepts more accessible through mediums other than text are all on the agenda

Speaking of, @dan_abramov and I have a course that teaches Javascript using diagrams and visual explanations at justjavascript.com (free!)

No complex drawing skills were involved in making this :) Just circles, boxes, arrows, and some motion.

Also, Dan's brain helps.

Also, will be livestreaming with @iamtylerwclark on Tuesday (9am PST / 5pm BST) applying these same metaphor techniques while visually explaining Web Workers

https://twitter.com/iamtylerwclark/status/1245388410912518144