Shirley Wu

2015, A Year in Review

Basically #TeamIllumio #dataviz #d3js #reactjs #d3unconf #wafflejs #travel

I’m not sure if Year in Reviews were a thing before this year, but suddenly I’m seeing lots of them. After seeing Sarah Groff-Palermo’s ridiculously impressive Year in Review, I figured I…

My Reading List

So I have this bad habit of seeing a link or getting sent links, opening them up in a tab, and then never getting to them. Eventually they get lost in Chrome tabs land, or Chrome crashes and I lose them all — so I’m going to try this method out for keeping track of the materials I want to read and…

Hi, thank you for writing this.

Though I am a female programmer, I’ve never taken femininity into consideration when thinking about gender issues in tech. And that’s probably because I have always leaned more on the tomboy side; though shy as a kid, I grew up to be loud and assertive and opinionated and “manly” in my…

On D3, React, and a little bit of Flux

When I first started exploring D3 and React together, I realized I wanted to attempt it differently from the other approaches I had read about. I had just read through the React tutorials and had started on an article (Nicolas Hery’s Integrating D3.js…