Lorna Mitchell
@lornajane
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API/Developer experience, TSC @openAPIspec, board member @openuk_uk, maintainer @rst2pdf. Technology addict, open source enthusiast, incurable blogger. She/her.
Huddersfield, England
Joined July 2007
I’ve disconnected this account from the publishing tool I was using so look out for me on other platforms in the future.
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RT @openuk_uk: Join us today for OpenUK Digital Meetup to discuss "Self-hosting: open source tools for every day" at lunchtime between 12 a….
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Calling the Yorkshire/Leeds people: I'm speaking at Leeds PHP about OpenAPI on Wednesday evening, please come along if you can!
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This is a free in-person event, open to all. ★ The talks **18:30 –** **Arrive, pre-event networking & pizzas 🍕** **19:00 – OpenAPI for Web Developers - Lorna Mitchell**
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If you're free on Wednesday, join me and the @OpenUK crowd to chat about the open source and self-hosted tools you can use in your everyday life:
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SAVE THE DATE Join us on Wednesday 15th January for the Fifth OpenUK Digital Meetup, our online-only event for OpenUK community members. We will have the speaker info to b
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If you generate your OpenAPI files, or just want to polish them, you think you can't edit them because they'll be regenerated. Good news: you can save your edits as an Overlay and Speakeasy have some tools that make this easy
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Who has your data and what are they doing with it? TechCrunch are offering some constructive advice on alternative tools - and where to find them as a service if you don't want to self-host! I'm already a Nextcloud convert #linkTuesday.
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Not every app or service wants to monetize your personal data. Here are some of our favorite alternatives to popular apps.
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When you publish code examples for other people, do you do one repo with loads of examples, or each example as its own project? My short answer: it depends. Longer answer in the blog post:
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Writing for technical audiences often means sharing code in one form or another. If the code is only for illustration purposes, then it can be included in the article for observation. But if the code...
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I'm reading a lot of career-related content at the moment, and this week's #linkTuesday is actually TWO posts, both about job titles in tech. A great personal story from Will and a long but worth-it read from Gergely
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This week your #linkTuesday is this excellent post from Jeff about writing and sharing and owning your content Be a creator, not just a consumer.
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Friends, I encourage you to publish more, indirectly meaning you should write more and then share it. It’d be best to publish your work in some evergreen space where you control the domain and URL....
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RT @OpenApiSpec: Please meet our next OpenAPI Community Hero, @lornajane. Lorna is VP of Developer Experience at @Redocly and OpenAPI TSC m….
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RT @openuk_uk: Nominate yourself or another for an OpenUK 2024 Startup Award sponsored by @RunaCapital by midnight UK 15 Sept. Up to 3 nomi….
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Thanks for listening, @wordcampwhitley! Slides from my "Write Great Tech Content" talk are available here: I'm always happy to chat about writing, documentation, APIs, or really anything else!.
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Technical content can be challenging to write. It often calls for complex ideas to be conveyed in clear language, and yet the result must be easily digestible by an audience that doesn’t always have...
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Great session with @TheLeadDev and friends today in this DevEx webinar. I was supposed to be moderating but in fact I was making a lot of notes . .
Want to learn some realistic strategies that will make your developers' jobs easier and more enjoyable? Then join us for this free panel tomorrow, where engineering leaders and DevEx specialists will highlight key components of the developer experience .
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RT @Redocly: 🐫 YAML rhymes with camel 🐫. We also have many more (possibly more useful) YAML-related tips to share in our blog post for tech….
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Good news: the @OggCamp call for papers is open! While mostly a superbly geeky unconference, the event has a scheduled track and we'd love you to send us something we can include. The event is October 12-13 in Manchester, and the CfP link is here:
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If you're working with OpenAPI descriptions, are you writing/generating it once, then linting it, then using it for something (docs? SDKs?) and nothing else? If you need to be adopting a more complex OpenAPI workflow, I wrote about the patterns I'm seeing
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Shared some of my usual API advice rant in polite form for the company blog. You have to find me in person if you want the less polite version ;).
When your API changes, how you let people know about it really matters. Version your API descriptions appropriately, create a meaningful changelog, and communicate, communicate, communicate! #APIManagement #APIs
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