What an interesting parallel where as painters, it's not recommended to use black with nature scenes. Mixing colors into a very dark shade is better. 🎨 I'd go for a Smoky Black or Midnight Blue!

Feels weird seeing folks get invited to a conference where I experienced a racial code of conduct violation. I hope folks can have fun, learn something great, and build community, especially when there are kids involved.

What is Armadillo? Here's a short introduction! Thank you to @Roker_Flower for their work on this video. Learn more at ArmadilloStock.com

Super happy to see Armadillo Stock launched! 🥳 If you're looking for illustration licensing made by humans, please check out armadillostock.com This is only the beginning, plz sign up for our newsletter Shout out to @dialmformichele for bringing together artists!

Armadillo's first website is finally here!!! So proud of the team who made this happen, and grateful for the artists who let us feature their beautiful artwork. We have big plans for what comes next—please check us out and spread the word!

📢 Big announcement: our first website is LIVE! 🥳 Learn about the licensing platform we're building for the illustration community at armadillostock.com

Job hunting is like golf, we want as few job apps filled out. If I had 400 folks who would refer me to a company-- I think the odds are going to be significantly greater in getting an offer-- compared to filling out an app 400 times.

Interested in empowering and protecting illustrators? Armadillo is seeking volunteers to join our team! We're specifically looking for: • a developer with experience in Gatsby • a social media manager Please fill out this form if you're interested: form.jotform.com/23011144824…

If you're excited about Cara and the idea of community-built online spaces for artists, please keep an eye on us! Armadillo will be less of a social media platform, and more of a place to sell illustrations directly to clients. We'll be launching our introductory site very soon!

I know $12 USD is a lot of money for some people, so to celebrate 1000 sales (!!!!), I'm giving away 1000 PDF copies of How Git Works (honour system: only if $12 is a lot for you!) Here's the link, enter code BUYONEGIVEONE at checkout to get a free copy wizardzines.com/zines/git/ (it'll ask you for a billing address but you can enter a fake address if you'd prefer)

#OnThisDay in 1942, singer Curtis Mayfield was born. The Chicago native made his first recordings in 1958 as a member of The Impressions. Mayfield infused gospel and blues with messages of uplift and racial pride to give voice to the struggles of everyday Black Americans.

Who's hiring? I know some awesome folks, particularly: - Senior Staff Principal dev advocates - Mid-level full stack - Entry-level backend - Senior technical writer

10th Anniversary Cake Tree is Ready ❤️‍🔥 We’ve received memories from 2,136 Forest friends in just a few days! Memories have their sweet and sour, bitter and spicy flavors, and after the flower fairies' touch, the 10th anniversary cake tree is ready! How to claim 👇

After crashing pretty hard last night, I've awoken early and excited. So here's my last day (probably) of Google proselytizing, specifically on how to get started w/Gemini. From their marketing email: Google AI Studio (aistudio.google.com/app/prom…) is the fastest way to explore the capabilities of Gemini, our family of next generation multimodal models. Experiment by crafting prompts with text and image inputs to generate text responses with the Gemini API. 📷Create, test, and save prompts: Provide context and examples to guide the model response. Select models and adjust parameters in the run settings. 📷Customize models in minutes: Tune a model (aistudio.google.com/app/tune…) with example data to enhance performance for specific tasks and reduce the amount of instruction needed for new prompts. 📷Build applications with the API: Integrate prompts into apps by grabbing your API key (aistudio.google.com/app/apik…) and exporting as code into your project. Google AI Studio quickstart ai.google.dev/gemini-api/doc… Intro to Prompt design. ai.google.dev/gemini-api/doc… API Overview ai.google.dev/gemini-api/doc… Example prompts ai.google.dev/examples?utm_s… Google Dev Community Discord discord.com/invite/google-de…

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Todays my birthday 🥳 and I would love to share 6 years ago I went to my 1st tech conference thanks a discount that @WomenTechmakers provided for Google I/O This year I’m back and got to bring @TechByChoiceOrg members, making I/O some of their 1st tech conferences too!

For my own research on upksilling/continuing education online classes: What are things that make you think an online class is phenomenal? What are some things you wish more online classes did / had / or included? Please reply, and if feeling generous, RT for reach.

🚀 Exciting Opportunity for a Junior Ruby on Rails Engineer! 🚀 I've got some news! As @RailsConf 2024 rolls into Detroit next week (May 7-9th), I've decided to sponsor a conference ticket for an up-and-coming Rails developer based in the Detroit metro area. If you're a Ruby-lovin Junior Developer with ~6 months to 2 years of experience, this could be your chance! 🎟️ How to Enter: 1. Make sure you live in the Detroit metro area. 2. Double-check that you can make at least two conference days. (ideally, you can attend the bulk of it) 3. Reply on LinkedIn with "I'm interested!" and share your favorite record shop or vegetarian-friendly restaurant in Detroit. (I'm looking forward to some great local tips!) ...link in thread 🔍 If we get more than a few entries, I'll enter all names into a randomizer to pick the lucky winner. I’ll then contact you personally to let you know if you’ve won. We can even grab a coffee to discuss your career goals at the conference. ☕️ 🌟 Extra Credit: Follow @PlanetArgon on Twitter. 🏷️ I'll be attending the conference myself and will have some @OhMyZsh stickers on hand. Say hi! 👋 Let's make RailsConf 2024 unforgettable! #RubyOnRails #RailsConf #Detroit