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My First 100 Days as an Engineering Manager — in a Pandemic

In May 2020, I took a sharp right turn in my career: I transitioned from being a lead software engineer to an engineering manager…

52 min readSep 18, 2020

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A group photo of the combined Voice & Emerging Platforms team from October 2019.

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A glimpse under the hood of “Alexa, play Morning Edition”

This morning, we announced the launch of “Alexa, play Morning Edition”, a new way to listen to NPR content on your Amazon Echo and other…

7 min readSep 4, 2019

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A glimpse under the hood of “Alexa, play Morning Edition”

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NPR now supports JSON Feed!

The NPR Tech Team achieved several technical accomplishments last month, most notably launching HTTPS support for npr.org. We didn’t make a…

7 min readDec 12, 2017

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NPR now supports JSON Feed!

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Mental Health in Tech at NationJS 2016

In the summer of 2016, I applied to speak at NationJS, a one-day, single-track JavaScript conference in the greater Washington, DC area. At…

7 min readJan 5, 2017

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Mental Health in Tech at NationJS 2016

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Nara Kasbergen

What it's like when one of your best friends takes her own life

Or, a very longwinded way of answering the question, “How are you doing?”

25 min readDec 30, 2016

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What it's like when one of your best friends takes her own life

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NPR Digital Media Tech Team's Favorite Tiny Desk Concerts

I hope you've enjoyed our series of rotating profiles on the developers, sysadmins, managers, QA engineers, and other technical roles in…

3 min readDec 22, 2016

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NPR Digital Media Tech Team's Favorite Tiny Desk Concerts

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How I almost won the “Penguin Award”

If you've read Jason's post on Serendipity Days at NPR, you might remember that there's an award we give out (and only one award that we…

34 min readSep 2, 2016

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How I almost won the “Penguin Award”

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Lone Star PHP 2016 in Review

My goal for 2016 was to speak at a conference for the first time, and in April I made it a reality: I traveled to Dallas for Lone Star PHP.

15 min readAug 18, 2016

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Lone Star PHP 2016 in Review

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Technology at NPR

New Open-Source Launch: NPR One JavaScript SDK

About a month ago, I wrote about how my team was putting the finishing touches on our open-source JavaScript SDK for NPR One. Well, I'm…

4 min readAug 10, 2016

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New Open-Source Launch: NPR One JavaScript SDK

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New Open-Source Launch: A PHP-based Proxy to NPR’s OAuth Server

I love my job and the work that I've had the opportunity to do here at NPR; I have no desire to go anywhere else. However, if there's one…

4 min readJul 8, 2016

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Nara Kasbergen

Nara Kasbergen

🇳🇱🇮🇩🇨🇳 immigrant married to a 🇰🇷🇺🇸. She/her. INFP. Eng manager looking for a new adventure. Mental health advocate. Foodie. Gamer. ❤️: 💅🏻🍷 & 🐧

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