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Stereotype threat
My first open-source software patch was made September 30. Today, October 10, was my first case of stereotype threat related to coding directed at me. Given the kind of sentiments that are common in...
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Body issues
I’m still not at a point where I really, truly *like* how my body looks, but I’m at a point where that aspect bugs me less than my elbow problems and fitness level (specifically in climbing). Found...
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Take my hand, and we shall commit a sin irreversible…
Another song post. (photo by Ingrid Tayler, CC-BY) Ever since I first laid eyes on it, I have been in love with San Francisco’s city hall building. There aren’t many other places in the world that I’ve...
View ArticleHow to teach programming: shy, practical people edition
Retrospectively, if any kid were going to grow up to be a coder, it probably should’ve been me. Genetically speaking, my dad had been working on computers since high school in the 1970s, semi-breaking...
View ArticlePaper: Outreach and Diversity in FOSS
Last week I finished my final research paper for INFO 203: Social and Organizational Issues of Information, on the mechanics of how people get involved in free and open source software projects and how...
View ArticleOn helping [iPhone owners] change the world
Last weekend, I participated in Hack for Change, a 24-hour codeathon sponsored by Change.org and Code for America where developers and designers were challenged to create apps for the public good. As...
View ArticleSomething I’ve been up to
Well, there’s many things that fit that descriptor lately. I’ve been busy! (And not blogging about hardly any of it; oops.) Anyway, one of those things is a new FOSS-ish project I started called...
View ArticleTechnical recruiting is broken.
Sigh. Three weeks ago, I went to a UC Berkeley career fair and dropped off a copy of my resume with a certain startup. I’d put a lot of effort into selling myself with this particular resume, and...
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Why Bootstrap is no replacement for design sense: a case study
Until recently, the website for the mosh open source software project (a mobile shell that has a bunch of useful features missing in regular ssh) looked like this:...
View ArticleWhat Game of Thrones can teach us about PRISM, Verizon, and the NSA
“The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling.” – Varys, Game of Thrones In the TV show Game of Thrones, there is a character, Varys, who...
View ArticleHackathons and Minimum Viable Prototypes
There’s been some prominent blog posts recently questioning the usefulness of hackathon events. Some focus on the cultural issues associated with many hackathons–that by default they appeal to a very...
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