Community & Mentorship on Thunder Nerds Podcast
In this episode we get to talk with Tessa Kriesel: Developer Outreach Manager at Pantheon. We discuss how she got her start in the industry via Guitar Hero, and what her day-to-day is like at Pantheon.
All Things WordPress On PHP Roundtable Podcast
We chat about backwards compatibility, Gutenberg, and the WordPress ecosystem with Ryan Welcher, David Hayes, Tessa Kriesel, Adam Silverstein, Jeremy Ward, and Jenny Wong.
Teaching Web Development On How I Built It Podcast
Tessa Kriesel is a developer, community advocate, and educator. We get into our approaches to teaching, why it’s important, to give opportunities to underserved areas and groups. We also discuss our “aha” moments – that time where programming suddenly clicked for us.
Writing better junior developer job descriptions
Have you ever taken the time to search junior web developer job postings? Don’t do it. It’s depressing. In case you are like me and need the facts, you can review Indeed [https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=junior+web+developer&l=]. Anyways, in my research I
Podcast, Hallway Chats
Tessa Kriesel is an agency and community engineer at Pantheon and she’s been a web developer for over 10 years. She’s the founder of Outspoken Women, she’s passionate about diversity initiatives and teaching people to code and mentoring new developers.
How to filter custom post types by ACF date field
As I was building out my new website, I started to create a couple custom post types. One of these custom post type’s were for Events and the other for Talks. I wanted to be able to display my upcoming events vs events I have already attended. I didn’
Webinar, Pantheon Couch Coding: Bending Behat's Benefits
Behat is a PHP tool with extensions for Drupal and WordPress that allows development teams to write testing scenarios in plain English, and then use a simulated web browser to verify the behavior.
My experience with natural healing
aka Morphogenic Field Technique This is going to be a strange post, at least strange compared to what I normally post. I made an appointment with a local chiropractor hoping to find a doctor similar to the one I saw in northern Minnesota. He had these crazy ways of knowing
Preparing food in a public restroom
Would you eat food if you knew it was prepared in a public restroom? As working mothers, our newborn children do.
Other Speaking Engagements Delivered
A running list of some of my speaking engagements over the years.