jenn schiffer

500 years of html experience

i'm an artist, writer, community manager, and web developer with 30 hobbies, 2 computer science degrees and 0-5 attention spans depending on the vibes. i left my corporate job in the fall of 2024 to learn to rest and, instead, started bugs rock. it's not my first career pivot, and it probably won't be my last.

site last updated july 28, 2026

photo of me altered to be purple and make me look like a clown

hello future friend, this is what i look like

get in touch

you can email me at [email protected]. i'm also active on a few online spaces (mastodon, bluesky, linkedin, youtube) but i do not use facebook, instagram, threads, tiktok or x/twitter. rip cohost.

look at my art

robot karaoke

i am the east coast co-ceo of robot karaoke with everyone's pal jamie brew. you can join me on the following dates:

keep an eye on the calendar for more shows happening all over da place!

animated gif showing different candles i sell on bugsrock.online

buy my candles, paintings and wares from my online shop

live laugh blog

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youtube

watch my very short and sweet videos

make8bitart.com

draw some pixel art on this free web app i made

me and anil during the early glitch days saying pls like and subscribe

in progress: jenn wide web 😈

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my little art blog posts on pckt

speaking experience

highlights:
podcasts i've been a guest on
  1. boba talk (codedex), march 2025
  2. the dev stream, january 2022
  3. sustain oss, november 2020
  4. stack overflow podcast, may 2020
  5. shift shift forward, april 2020
  6. policy viz, january 2018
  7. mozilla's irl podcast, january 2018
  8. indiedotes, august 2017
  9. greater than code, july 2017
  10. stack overflow podcast (guest host)
  11. js party, march 2017
  12. stack overflow podcast, march 2017
  13. greater than code, february 2017
  14. studio360, march 2015
  15. javascript jabber, december 2014
  16. codenewbie, december 2014
  17. strange beings, august 2014
  18. ladies in tech, may 2014
  19. frip frap, february 2014
  20. shop talk show, october 2013
workshops i've given
  1. "welcome to my guestbook - going from static to full-stack on glitch" - dinosaur js, june 2018
  2. "decoded: intro to javascript" - the wing, december 2017
  3. "building a better web with glitch" - devfest nyc, december 2017
  4. "decoded: intro to css and a11y" - the wing, november 2017
  5. "decoded: intro to the web and html" - the wing, november 2017
  6. "intro to js and twitter bots" - Tufts WIT, october 2017
  7. "going front-end to full-stack with glitch" - empireconf, october 2017
conference & meetup talks
  1. "computational techniques for making karaoke harder" with jamie brew - chinatown js, august 2025
  2. "hard wax, soft skills" - brooklyn web workers, august 2025
  3. a history of boro.js - chinatown.js, november 2024
  4. every community is a winding road - community-led summit, april 2024
  5. "condemned to compute" - causal islands, april 2023
  6. "javascript after dark" - jsconf eu, june 2019
  7. "...a sunday morning keynote" - !!con, may 2019
  8. "mass incarceration ♥ technology" - womens prison association ep meeting, march 2019
  9. "introducing jennchat" - processing community day nyc open mic, february 2019
  10. "what can you make on glitch" - kickstarter creative, january 2019
  11. "what's the harm in 'hello world'" - nysais neit, november 2018
  12. "technology wasn't born bad, we just wrote it that way, pt 2" - women techmaker's summit, october 2018
  13. "putting your best 'hello world' forward" - apistrat, september 2018
  14. "opening keynote" - xoxo art + code night, september 2018
  15. "literally everything is pixel art" - jsconf us, august 2018
  16. "art and technology, great but also bad, pt 2" - write/speak/code nyc, august 2018
  17. "technology wasn't born bad, we just wrote it that way" - ccfest nyc, may 2018
  18. "art and technology, great but also bad" - generate nyc, april 2018
  19. "a topic of utmost hexcellence" - brooklyn js, december 2017
  20. "building a better web with glitch" - devfest nyc, december 2017
  21. "abstract art in a time of minification" - ffconf, november 2017
  22. "jenn's catskillsconf talk..." - catskillsconf, october 2017
  23. keynote - fullstackfest, september 2017
  24. "building a better web using glitch" - o'reilly fluent, june 2017
  25. "what if twilio could..." - twilio signal, may 2017
  26. "we don't learn alone" - devxcon, may 2017
  27. "listen and/or watch as i deconstruct the real web developer" - deconstructconf, april 2017
  28. "something about art + code" - codenewbie nyc, september 2016
  29. "no one expects the lady code troll" - xoxo, september 2016
  30. "does jenn schiffer think code and art go together? duh of course she does. and here is some proof." - microsoft open js day, december 2015
  31. "deconstructing the pixel (for artists)" - software for artists day, december 2015
  32. "deconstructing the pixel (using javascript) (and other things)" - jsconf colombia, october 2015
  33. "an intro to pxon, or 'what i did during summer vacation'" - brooklyn js, september 2015
  34. "jenn schiffer's serious talk about arrays, or 'arrays the roof;'" - txjs, july 2015
  35. "how to be a real web developer" - irl club, june 2015
  36. "who visualized the bomp" - web rebels, may 2015
  37. "drawing lines with bresenham's line algorithm" - code genius, march 2015
  38. "anything you can paint, i can program better" - jquery uk, march 2015
  39. "state of the malware" - dhtmlconf oakland, december 2014
  40. "learning to love selfies with pixel art" - brooklyn js, november 2014
  41. "javascripting matisse" - manhattan js, november 2014
  42. "growing up wordpress" - wordcamp sf, october 2014
  43. "your grandparents probably didn't have node" - thunderplains js, october 2014
  44. "hypertext markup art" - asbury agile, october 2014
  45. "there are hot local jquery tables in your area" - jquery chicago, september 2014
  46. "a career of being lazy using wordpress" - wordcamp nyc, august 2014
  47. "color pickle" - boston js, june 2014
  48. "what's the harm in sorting" - jsconf, may 2014
  49. "jenn's good ideas for monetizing c.s.s.™" - cssconf, may 2014
  50. "sorting out sorting" - empire js, april 2014
  51. "malware" - dhtmlconf, march 2014
  52. "how to avoid work and bring your coworkers together using javascript" - brooklyn js, january 2014
  53. "art-up with markup" - nyc html5 meetup, january 2014
  54. "kiss my canvas" - jquery austin, september 2013
  55. "learn code, make art" - jquery portland, june 2013
conferences i've emcee'd
  1. xoxo, 2024
  2. xoxo art + code night, september 2018
  3. dinosaur js, june 2018
  4. dinosaur js, june 2017
  5. dinosaur js, june 2016
  6. cssconf nordic, may 2016
  7. dhtmlconf oakland, december 2014
  8. cssconf us, may 2014

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