Katie McLaughlin

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Katie has worn many different hats over the years. She has previously been a software developer for many languages, systems administrator for multiple operating systems, and speaker on many different topics.

When she's not changing the world, she enjoys making cooking, tapestries, and seeing just how well various application stacks handle emoji.

Open Source Evangelist People's Choice Award People's Choice Award 2019 Author Contributor Club

Authored Content

A simple command-line tool for recording audio

Death by PowerPoint: These talks break the mold

Open source conference talks you'll want to watch again and again.

Tips for using the top command in Linux

Improve your 'top' knowledge with this tutorial.

The knitting printer and more art with open source

Linux.conf.au Art + Tech miniconf showcases exciting artworks produced with open source software and hardware.

An introduction to the Django ORM

Learn how to use the Python web framework's object-relational mapper to interact with your database, just like you would with SQL.

Cross-platform development with Python and BeeWare

Learn how the BeeWare suite of libraries and bridges will help Python developers deploy code across platforms.

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Solving the cross-platform emoji problem

Emojificiate is a server-side implementation of web-accessible emoji written in Python.