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Coding is a human right 6 Aug 2013 | 10:04 am
Today I was walking down the street, thinking about how barbaric it was that many women were forbidden to learn to read and write in the 19th century in England (some people felt that illiterate women...
Rebooting the Ada Lovelace Mythos 23 Jul 2013 | 11:21 pm
I’m super excited about my keynote at the Ada Lovelace conference coming up in October. Today I wrote the draft abstract and title for the keynote and wanted to share it with all of you and get feedba...
Strong women and the military 19 May 2013 | 07:50 am
My typical morning news routine is listening to NPR’s Morning Edition while catching up on Twitter from the night before – which can be a hilariously jarring experience. Take the news cycle about remo...
Ball lightning: the coolest thing you’ve never heard of 11 May 2013 | 11:12 am
Don’t have enough worries keeping you awake at night? How about worrying about being woken up by a glowing floating ball of light barging into your bedroom in the middle of the night? At 1:36 a.m. thi...
Suicide and society: Where does responsibility for preventing suicide lie? 12 Jan 2013 | 11:39 pm
Every time a well-known person commits suicide, I brace myself for a torrent of well-meaning but patronizing advice to suicidal people on various social networks and blogs as the friends of the victim...
Inbox Thirty-Two: How one email addict manages her email 11 Jan 2013 | 12:11 pm
I was feeling a little panicky today because I was behind on my work email… 32 messages behind. If this sounds heavenly to you, keep reading – I’m about to describe how I do it. First, credit where cr...
Book recommendations please? 24 Dec 2012 | 04:39 am
Our fancy modern new Interweb should make the question, “Where can I find more books like this?” super easy to answer. But it’s not, because I often like books for different reasons than the majority ...
Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions table updated 18 Nov 2012 | 02:05 am
I finally got around to updating the Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions table to be current to 2012. I also licensed it CC-BY-SA. Some time when I’m REALLY bored I’ll include all the references...
Essential San Francisco software 12 Nov 2012 | 10:06 am
I sold my car in 2007 because Google Transit was in beta for the city I was living in at the time (Portland). Today, I don’t know what I’d do without the suite of software I use to get around … Contin...
The Linux community can’t remain silent while leaders make anti-woman comments 30 Oct 2012 | 04:55 am
I’ve written about prominent open source software leader Ted Ts’o’s public comments about rape for the Ada Initiative over on their blog. This post is about my personal reactions. I know, you don’t wa...
