This week for my fandom class, I created this timeline of past fan loves of my past. It took more time than I expected– what merited inclusion? What categories were too broad? Was there anything I was too embarrassed to include? (A definite “yes” on that last count, which is...

I need to restart this blog again for ITP. Here we go!

Recently, I filled in a job questionnaire that included the infamous Reddit question, “Would you rather fight 100 duck sized horses or 1 horse sized duck?” I promptly chose the horses, but I didn’t get an interview. Perhaps they were duck people? My reasoning is below: I’d fight the 100...

(*This post was originally posted to Medium.) When I was in high school, the other web designers I knew were other teenage girls. When I was 14, I attended a seminar to encourage young women to consider computer science. When I went to university, about a third of my first...

Although my heart belongs to ruby, lately, I haven’t been using it at all– I’ve been working on coding tumblr the game in entirely client side JavaScript. To keep my ruby skills fresh though, I’ve been doing a reading about Ruby on the side. One topic, which I hardly gave...

Over the last little while, I’ve grown increasingly disillusioned with Agile developments[^1]. That’s not to say I advocate using Waterfall or even any problems I have with the core tenets of the Agile manifesto; it just seems that any company that is purportedly Agile is either using it as a...

With the recent disclosure of the Heartbleed exploit, account security is undergoing increased media scrutiny and many of my less technical friends have asked me questions about how to proceed. Although it is likely unnecessary to change every single account password, now is as good a time as any to...

The other day I was asked about how I enjoy the music of Kanye West, despite being a staunch feminist. Although there is undeniable misogynistic content in his songs, I overlook it because I love his production and enjoy his other themes– his criticisms of cultural system and capitalism (although...