Hi, I'm Jenna!

I'm a Staff Frontend Engineer at Slack!

I write JavaScript for our Search and Discovery team! I work a lot on autocomplete and the Quickswitcher!

Talks!

I love speaking at conferences and meetups. It helps me learn new things and meet awesome people! I also help run BrooklynJS and EmpireJS

• how to train your model

  • Slides

• Parsing Parsers

  • Slides
  • Code

• Fantastic Frontend Performance Tricks and Why We Do Them

  • Video
  • Slides

• From Parentheses To Perception

  • Video
  • Slides

• The Care and Feeding of Your Engineering Manager

  • Slides

• The Browser and the Brain

  • Video
  • Slides

• How Engineering Management is Like Neko Atsume

  • Slides

• On How Your Brain is Conspiring Against You Making Good Software

  • Video
  • Slides

• Server Farm to Table (or, how the Internet Works)

  • Video
  • Slides

• What if your brain were ~*literally*~ JavaScript?

  • Video
  • Slides

• The Linguistic Relativity of Programming Languages

  • Video
  • Slides

Codes!

I think JavaScript is pretty neat!

• huemanities

  Explorations in treating images as a pile of pixels via canvas

  • See it
  • Code

• tetres6

  A tetris made out of es6.

  • Play it
  • Code

• Different

  A module for parsing git diffs from a url or file into an array of JavaScript objects each representing changed files.

  • npm
  • Code

• Caffeine

  Javascript profiler that times and graphs the runtime of an object in real-time

  • Code

• Synesthesia

  Web app that takes an image and returns another image where each color is replaced with words associated with that color

  • Code

Writings!

I'm trying to write about things I find cool!

Internets!

• Twitter
• Github
• Linkedin