a) only show your original face to the cameras b) be more human than you are able c) ask a cyborg for help d) build trapdoors in all important buildings that lead to wild empty spaces e) prefer architecture to habit for changing self f) give it another algorithm to play with g) feed it all…

We’re at the police precinct on Wednesday for the second day. At some point a liquor store gets ransacked and there’s just like beer and liquor floating through the street. I don’t care much about the looting, but I’ve been raised on a strict Catholic upbringing of no substances at…

On movement work, listening work, and better power analysis Okay, I guess I’m doing this writing on the internet about politics thing again. This one is directed at all the angry guys on the internet convinced we just lost our best shot at real change because of women being traitors…

(Let’s talk about justice instead!) Before I became a programmer, I spent about a decade doing racial justice as both a policy researcher and working in inner-city communities of color running programs for youth. Doing this work, I often found myself pushing back against (well-meaning) dominant frameworks of thought that…

or: How to love the rabbit hole while still shipping code Let’s talk a bit about the rabbit hole. It means different things to different coders, but it has the peculiar quality of feeling like you are getting something done, while you’re not getting anything done done. Into code review…

On the decisions made for a small bit of code for the temple at a regional burn… Temples are decidedly low-tech affairs usually and this one was no exception except for the hanging chandelier — trick with the chandelier is that we wanted it to appear very organic and respond…

Orienting yourself in a new (large) codebase. I recently started a new job and found myself in the familiar position of having to find my way through a large codebase of code I didn’t write, which was written for reasons I don’t quite know yet, under conditions that I also…

So, I’ve recently gone through a job search as a senior engineer and landed a new position.Each one of these points could be a separate post, but just wanted to give some quick thoughts out there, for people in the process! #1) I was pretty selective about applications and interviews…

My dear brothers. In this moment of cultural reckoning, I feel compelled to try to remind you of a few things. Feminism is not just the story of why you are wrong. It’s not actually a story of why you are wrong at all. It’s definitely not a story about…