Hello!

I’m a software developer and dancer.

I love the work I do at Buffer on their Android team. I enjoy learning about new things, and applying them to my work. You can keep up to date on the things I've been working on by subscribing to my newsletter.

You can often find me at conferences exchanging information with others as a speaker. Come say hello if you spot me at one!

In addition to speaking at conferences, I also write for Ray Wenderlich. I'm a part of their Android team, helping to educate people in Android and Kotlin.

Dance is another important part of my life. I’ve taken classes in various styles since kindergarten, but these days I spend most my time with either ballet or swing dance.

While studying at Hope College, I also started getting involved in dance technology and dance production. I had a couple projects that worked together with a dancer and an Xbox Kinect, and did a significant amount of lighting design. Ask me about them, I love talking about it!

When I’m not out doing these things, you can probably find me playing board games with friends, or curled up at home with a good book and my cat, Peter Pan, and hedgehog, Khoshekh.

The Remote Meetup Experience

I was able to speak REMOTELY at a Meetup for the for the first time. It was a great experience, and I wanted to share it all with you.

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When lambdas and strong typing collide

When trying to map an error to a custom error in an RxJava chain I found you need to be mindful of signatures that differ in the type of lambda

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Text Recognition with ML Kit

See how to use the new ML Kit library from Google to use machine learning and computer vision to perform text recognition in an image.

www.raywenderlich.com

How to send large files to your Kindle

I recently wanted to put a large ePub file on my Kindle to read. This is how I accomplished it.

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Snackchat May 3 – Let Kotlin Come To You

In this Snackchat, we introduce Kotlin, some of the language features, and how it can be used for the JVM, JavaScript, and Native.

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