ems — home PERSONAL WEBSITE. PUBLIC NOTEBOOK. ZERO CHILL.

It's a fucking website. Same human. No glue sticks required.

ISSUE NO. 001 / NOT A PERSONAL BRAND™

Erin Mikail Staples

Erin Mikail Staples, in glasses and a black jacket, at a developer event HOWDY. THIS IS MY FACE. ↗ meet the human behind the tabs ↗
meet the human — about Erin making a little trouble — explore things I make the résumé ↗
RENO → BROOKLYN → YOUR BROWSER001
OPEN NOTEBOOK / PLEASE DO NOT BE NORMAL
the internet should be weirder.

CODE.
COMMUNITY.
A LITTLE CHAOS.

write it down — words & ideas make a mess — things I make say hey — contact Erin

Developer Experience Engineer. Educator. Stand-up comedian. Brooklyn, NYC, by way of Reno, NV. Bridging code, content, and community — preferably without making any of it boring.

Part field notes. Part experiment. Part “is this thing on?”
Pick a tab. Pull a thread. Make yourself at home.

UNFILTERED / OCCASIONALLY USEFUL THOUGHTS.
WITH RECEIPTS. Tutorials, rabbit holes & other brain noise
Open note

You do not have to monetize every hobby. Make something weird. Be bad at it. Have a good time anyway.

ALL AGES / ALL IDEASLET'S TALK.NO NETWORKING VOICE REQUIRED ↗
CATCH ME IRL ↗LOOK AT THE CODE ↗
CLICK A SCRAP. FOLLOW A THREAD.002
02 / THE HUMAN BEHIND THE NOTEBOOK a few things to know

MORE HUMAN.
LESS PERSONAL BRAND.

Erin Mikail Staples at a developer event

Howdy, I'm Erin Mikail Staples.

Developer Experience Engineer. Educator. Stand-up comedian. Brooklyn, NYC, by way of Reno, NV. Bridging code, content, and community — preferably without making any of it boring.

I build tools that help developers not just learn, but love the tools they use. Code, content, community, and a healthy suspicion of the phrase “that's how we've always done it.”

Off the technical stage, you'll find me on a comedy one. Turns out explaining complicated things and getting a room full of strangers on your side have a lot in common.

The résumé, if you need the formal version ↗

Or start with what I'm writing, what I'm making, and where to find me IRL.

Other corners of my internet

03 / WORDS & IDEAS from the margins of my brain

THINKING
OUT LOUD.

Developer experience, AI, tutorials, and the occasional bad joke. Learn something. Break something. Tell me what happened.

THE LATEST ENTRIES
04 / THINGS I MAKE a little trial. a little error.

FUCK AROUND.
FIND THINGS OUT.

Demos, tutorials, experiments, and the occasional “I wonder what happens if…”

COLLECTED EXPERIMENTS Every entry, including older experiments ↗
05 / LEAVE A LITTLE NOTE the internet is better with people

GOOD PEOPLE.
WEIRD IDEAS.
SAY HEY.

Pull up a metaphorical chair.

An interesting idea? A question? A delightfully specific thing you think I'd like? Those are all good reasons to get in touch.

Send me a note real humans. real connections.