I'm Marty Hernandez Avedon. I'm a dev with a background in graphic design and writing.

I currently write technical docs for Microsoft and the Wikimedia Foundation. In early 2019, I interned with Wikimedia, where I updated 24 MediaWiki API docs, and created a demo app and tutorial. In 2018, I apprenticed at Microsoft, and previous to that, I worked on mobile apps and tutored adults in Swift/iOS.

Feel free to get in touch with me. I love working with new coders and supporting other folks from "untraditional" backgrounds (whatever that may mean).

Recent Posts

Web Demos

Posted on August 6, 2018

I recently decided to focus on web development. Towards that end, I ambitiously began learning React. React led to vanilla Javascript, and vanilla Javascript led to HTML/CSS, and now I have a portfolio page for all my recent web projects. [Read More]

Moving Forward

Posted on July 25, 2018

Since my apprenticeship ended, I’ve been thinking about what I really want to do. The answer, as always, is “Visual design,” and now I’m trying to make my way there as directly as possible. [Read More]

Pitch

Posted on July 8, 2018

At the end of the program, we had to present our projects at a hiring fair. I made a slideshow (using Powerpoint, of course), and decorated a trifold with Courier New, azure card paper, and print-outs of my data visualization work. I also prepared some talking points, some resumes, and... [Read More]

Wind Up

Posted on June 16, 2018

I haven’t been posting for the past few weeks because I’ve been enormously busy. I’ve worked on two separate projects and have had to learn a lot just to get started. Frameworks, infrastructure, query languages, and semi-obscure aspects of C# have all come into play, as well as some irritating... [Read More]

Realtime

Posted on April 24, 2018

The past two days have been the start of my actual work. The pre-training is over, and on Monday, I went not to a classroom, but to an office. And it all felt oddly familiar… [Read More]