home · Akira

Hello and welcome! My name is Akira, welcome to my digital garden!

I’m a developer advocate and musician. I currently work in DevRel at Bright Security, bringing cybersecurity tools like DAST scanners to devs to empower them to secure their software.

In my spare time, I love to garden, cook, and grow gourmet mushrooms in my basement :)

One of my raison d’etre is to teach other people what I’m learning..and I’m constantly learning!

Here you’ll find not only tech resources but lots of info on my various passions: music, growing mushrooms, fermentation, art, theater, math, accidentally lighting my garage on fire with a soldering iron and how you can avoid that mistake (jk), and renewable energy.

Find me on the web

Talks I’ve given

I love teaching people what I’ve learned! Here’s some talks where I do just that:

Stuff I’ve written

CyberSecurity (infosec) resources

OWASP

Some of my favorite projects I’ve worked on

Tripsitters

A communal guide to connect and educate those working legally in the Psychedelic space with people interested in using Psychedelics for therapeutic care and enhancing well-being.

Check out our current website

Fun Ideas for Workshops

Make any picture into cake w/ CSS (Because everything is cake. Always has been.)
How to talk to strangers
Build your own personal site with Jekyll
Build a 3d photo gallery w/ parallax.js
Debugging workshop
Scan an OSS project with a DAST and fix the bugs

Fun Ideas for Lightning Talks

Find your “why” to avoid burnout
How I translate code into human
The Hackathon, The Open Source, and The English Writing: how I use this trinity to iteratively build my tech skills
Debugging JS Basics

Fun Ideas for Small Projects

Chrome extension that monitors time spent on social media, and when you navigate away from the page, Count Reugen from “The Princess Bride” shows up and says: “I’ve just sucked <x amount of hours/minutes> of your life away. Tell me, how does it feel?”
Make a Raspberry Pi Content Filter

Blog Ideas

Crash course on collaborating on Github
Big refactor energy
How to be a good mentee
The developer’s search for meaning: How Merkle’s existentialist writing applies to our work
Photo journal of making Kimchi
Photo journal of making Makgolli
Photo journal of feeding Natto to my friends
How I rescued myself from study anxiety
Tutorials aren’t hell, the way you use them sucks
A good to-do tutorial w/ Rails and React
A good to-do tutorial w/ React
Tutorial on how to chunk knowledge
Tutorial on documentation, namely, writing with an active, clear voice
Social Media is the New Opioid Addiction
Transcendence and Technology: what the revolutionary film Akira teaches us about the our destiny
Bug fixing the Best Way - compare and contrast different approaches w/o demonizing any of them
From Rubyist to JavaScript-er - the good, the bad, and the ugly
General Fetch API knowledge; what it makes available & why its so widely used
Async and Await sideways definitions
Promises sideways definitions
You Gotta Spend Money to Make Money - How I Prioritized Debt and Got Rich (wip haha)
Comics on schoolkids that illustrates async programming: promises, fetch, async & await

Fantastic Open-Source Projects

Cool Fusions of Music, Art and Tech

Decentralized Web Goodness

Cool workflow/management Tools

ALL the JS Runtime Environments!

My Fave JS Libraries

Parallax, 3D goodness

JS libraries I Want to Try

Great places I’ve Gone to go DEEP with JavaScript

Writing HTML and CSS that doesn’t Suck

HELP, I BROKE GIT!

Oh Shit, Git!

Supercharge Your Learning

Supercharge your Technical Writing

Supercharge your Workshops

Liberating Structures: USE THESE. These are magic for classroom and workshop engagement.

Free Pics for your Blog

Grow Some Mushrooms at Home, yo!

Places to Write for $$$

If you like to write as much as I do, here are the places I’ve found who are currently accepting applications for contributors. Sometimes, they will even pay you!

Akira Hack Of All Trades