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Spring 2021 #OSSTA Lecture: Kate Compton
Hello, Goodbye: Why You Should Let Your Users Go

One of the real­ly amaz­ing things about Tracery is that I made it when I had just learned Javascript. It man­aged to be like, most­ly bug-free. But because it’s a very small library and it does­n’t do any­thing ter­ri­bly com­plex, it end­ed up being able to run large­ly with­out me. And so it spawned this mas­sive com­mu­ni­ty that is com­plete­ly distributed.

Translating World Clock

I’m going to talk about a bot-like cre­ation that was occa­sioned by NaNoGenMo last year, World Clock. It has a rather curi­ous sto­ry to what’s hap­pened after I devel­oped it.