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whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

Volunteer: Coder, tech event organiser, mentor, advocates diversity in tech | Working as Community Lead (Resident Tech Mystic 🦄) @ Yard

Dublin, Ireland Joined on Jun 12, 2020 https://beacons.page/whykay

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(Volunteer) DiversityInTech Advocate || (Employed) Community Lead (Resident Tech Mystic 🦄) @ Yard

EuroPython

Coding Grace Foundation

PyLadies Dublin

Django Girls Dublin

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* electronics (CircuitPython, Adafruit products, Raspberry Pi)
* be more proficient with sewing machine
* back into the groove of digital painting (Procreate on my iPad Pro)

* [WIP] Keeping my 11ty site up-to-date with Irish tech events listings
* Workshop content for Coding Grace
* Workshop video content for Coding Grace/PyLadies

* Advice about running/organising community events/conferences
* Chat about Diversity in Tech
* Chat about anything tech community related, need me to connect you to someone, just ask!

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whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for Coding Grace Foundation

Feb 19 '22

Diversity in the world of CTOs

#diversityintech #cto

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for Coding Grace Foundation

May 18

TechFoundHer Bootcamp (part 2)

#techfoundher #codinggrace #femalefounders

2 min read

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whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for Coding Grace Foundation

May 18

TechFoundHer Bootcamp

#femalefounders #techfoundher #entrepreneurs

5 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Feb 1

🎉 PyLadies Dublin Jan 2023 Meetup

#pyladies

1 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Dec 9 '22

PyLadies Dublin x DSI Galway November Meetup 202

#pyladies

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

Dec 8 '22

State of Diversity in Tech Groups in Ireland and Northern Ireland 2022

#diversityintech #community #irishtechcommunity

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for Coding Grace Foundation

Nov 22 '22

Django Sligo Workshop

#diversityintech #womenintech

3 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Nov 17 '22

PyLadies Dublin Oct Meetup @ Honeywell

#pyladies

1 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for Coding Grace Foundation

Sep 29 '22

[Sligo] Programming Workshop for Women

#diveresityintech #womenintech

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Sep 29 '22

PyLadies Dublin x Microsoft Ireland Sep Meetup

#pyladies

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Sep 29 '22

PyLadies Dublin August Meetup

#pyladies

3 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Aug 18 '22

PyLadies Dublin July Meetup

#pyladies

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

Aug 17 '22

Thoughts after trying my hand making Youtube Shorts for The Irish Makers Podcast

#contentcreation #newbie

4 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

Aug 3 '22

EuroPython 2022

#europython #pyladies #djangogirls #makers

7 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for Django Girls Dublin

Jul 25 '22

Post-Django Girls @ EuroPython 2022

#djangogirls #europython

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Jun 23 '22

PyLadies Dublin Remote Workshop with Jina AI: Image search with DocArray

#pyladies

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Jun 17 '22

PyLadies Dublin x Women in AI Ireland in-person event (Sat May 21, 2022)

#pyladies #diversityintech #ai #video

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Jun 17 '22

PyLadies Dublin April Meetup

#pyladies #beginners

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

Jun 15 '22

My Elgato Streamdeck all set up for StreamYard

#streaming

1 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for Coding Grace Foundation

Jun 15 '22

Coding Grace - Figuring when to run a workshop for Founders

#fail

1 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for Django Girls Dublin

Jun 15 '22

Django Girls Dublin Workshop at EuroPython

#djangogirls #europython

1 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Mar 22 '22

PyLadies Dublin x PyLadies London IWD Special

3 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for Coding Grace Foundation

Mar 9 '22

March Newsletter Follow-up during IWD month

#diversityintech #womenintech #irishtechcommunity

3 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for Coding Grace Foundation

Mar 8 '22

Nevertheless, Vicky Coded in 2022

#shecoded #community #diversityintech #irishtechcommunity

6 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Feb 21 '22

PyLadies Dublin x PyLadies Munich Valentine's Event Write-up

#pyladies #python #video

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

Feb 16 '22

Trying Streamyard for various things

#streaming #production

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Jan 24 '22

PyLadies Dublin 1st Meetup of 2022 - Fun Pair Programming and Iterating with Python

#video #python #pyladies #pairprogramming

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for Coding Grace Foundation

Jan 12 '22

Coding Grace Jan Newsletter is out plus updates

#newsletter #codinggrace #diversityintech #irishtechcommunity

3 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

Jan 7 '22

My latest microphone

#streaming

1 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for Coding Grace Foundation

Jan 6 '22

Coding Grace - Community Partner with Developer Week 2022

#codinggrace #community #diversityintech #conference

1 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Dec 20 '21

2021 - A year in review for PyLadies Dublin

#pyladies #diversityintech #pyladiesdublin #community

4 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

Dec 19 '21

My highlights of 2021

#highlights #irishtechcommunity #diversityintech #maker

9 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

Dec 18 '21

Quick update on my streaming setup up

#streaming

1 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for Coding Grace Foundation

Dec 10 '21

🎄Coding Grace December Newsletter is out plus extra announcements!

#codinggrace #diversityintech #irishtechcommunity #newsletter

3 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Nov 25 '21

PyLadies Dublin November Meetup (last meetup of 2021)

#python #maker #datascience #video

3 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Nov 9 '21

PyLadies Dublin x PyLadies Paris October Meetup

#pyladies #video

3 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for EuroPython

Oct 12 '21

EuroPython 2021: All edited videos now available

#europython #videos #python

1 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for EuroPython

Oct 8 '21

👏 New EuroPython Fellows

#europython #fellows #community

1 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for Coding Grace Foundation

Oct 6 '21

Coding Grace's Oct Newsletter and moar new announcements regarding grants & opportunities

#codinggrace #irishtechcommunity #diversityintech

3 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for EuroPython

Oct 5 '21

🎞 EuroPython 2021: Edited videos of the second day available

#videos #europython #python

1 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Sep 28 '21

PyLadies Dublin September Meetup: Lifelogging || Sentiment Analysis

#pyladies #video #datascience

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for EuroPython

Sep 28 '21

🌈 Launching the EuroPython Society Fellow Grant

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for EuroPython

Sep 28 '21

EuroPython 2021: Edited videos of the first day available

#europython #videos #conference

1 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for EuroPython

Sep 23 '21

👏 List of EPS board candidates for the board vote at this year's General Assembly

8 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for Coding Grace Foundation

Sep 14 '21

Coding Grace September Newsletter switched to Revue from Mailchimp & other news

#codinggrace #newsletter #diversityintech #irishtechcommunity

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

Sep 7 '21

Why community is important?

#community #psf

7 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

Sep 1 '21

In-Person Tech Events - Yes or No?

#events #conferences

3 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Aug 21 '21

PyLadies Dublin Aug Meetup: HuggingFace Transformers || PySparks 101

#pyladies #python #pysparks #video

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

Aug 20 '21

My streaming setups since Dec

#streaming #gadgets

6 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Jul 31 '21

PyLadies Dublin July Meetup: FastAPI, Lambdas, PyTest and other cool things

#pyladies #meetup #video

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for EuroPython

Jul 22 '21

EuroPython 2021: Data Science Mini-Conference

#europython #conference #keynotes

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for EuroPython

Jul 20 '21

EuroPython 2021: Full-Day Workshops (by Django Girls and Humble Data)

#europython #workshops #djangogirls #humbledata

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for EuroPython

Jul 19 '21

EuroPython 2021: Keynotes and Booklet

#europython #conference #python

3 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for EuroPython

Jul 16 '21

Conference Organisers & Community Discounts

#europython #community #organisers

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for EuroPython

Jul 6 '21

EuroPython 2021: Trainings and Workshops

#europython #workshops #diversityintech

3 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

Jun 28 '21

PyLadies Dublin: Shipping Python Apps using Podman / Collaborative documentation as code with Git, Mkdocs and Pandoc

#pyladies #python #video

3 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

Jun 2 '21

An Irish Hackerspace looking for a new home

#hackerspace #makerspace

3 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for EuroPython

May 17 '21

EuroPython 2021: Talk Voting is Open

#europython #conference

2 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for PyLadies Dublin

May 6 '21

Bias in NLP || Automating social media content w/ Python & Mako

#python #pyladies #nlp #video

3 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for Coding Grace Foundation

May 5 '21

My experience with Code of Conduct

#codeofconduct #diversityintech #events #inclusionintech

6 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) for Coding Grace Foundation

May 5 '21

Coding Grace Irish Tech Newsletter is out (May Fourth)

#irishdev #diversityintech #community #newsletter

1 min read

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