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
React Native Study Group Kickoff
Posted on February 8, 2018
Last night was the inaugural meeting of the React Native study group. It was a raining for most of the day, but Housing Works gave us a nice, friendly space to talk, code, and do prep work on projects.
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Android@Scale: Eliminating Long Tail Jank With Strict Mode
Posted on February 5, 2018
The second-to-last session at last week’s Android@Scale conference was a talk by Kurt Nelson, of Big Nerd Ranch and Google. He gave a similar talk at DroidCon last year, so if you missed out, you’re in luck. My notes on this session, concerning Strict Mode, aren’t as extensive as my...
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CSS Selectors & Styling
Posted on February 2, 2018
When I started using Beautiful-Jekyll, I really enjoyed the airy, modern feel of the layout. Then I looked around a little at other sites using the same theme … and they all looked exactly like my site. There was absolutely no personal touch.
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Notes on React Native Migration, from Android@Scale
Posted on February 1, 2018
On January 31, Yang Mou of Oscar Health gave a talk at the Android@Scale conference in Manhattan. He discussed migrating mobile apps to React Native. These are my notes from this session.
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Filling Out Menus
Posted on February 1, 2018
For the past two days, I’ve been busy adding links to the navbar menus. It’s now a lot easier to find my work when you need it (no more searching through repos), and you no longer see that nasty WIP page if you click on anything.
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