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Not what I do all day. For those of you wondering what I'm doing this year, I'm a biologist now. By this I mean I now work in a...

Spam filters almost prevented these gorgeous photo ops. A few weeks ago, a friend and I were planning to go apple-picking when I notice...

I recently finished reading comedian Mindy Kaling’s second memoir, Why Not Me? What I found most empowering was her openness about hard wo...

I first heard about Hacker School last summer. I had run into my friend Lindsey Kuper at a conference in Edinburgh. She told me that she h...

When I was younger, I had no clue what it would be like to be in my 20s in the mid-2010s. I’d like to report that I never thought life woul...

People have been asking about the books I mentioned during last Friday's Challenging Technical Privilege Symposium at MIT. (The sympos...

I've been making some slow and steady progress in expanding my cooking repertoire. I even got some plants to aid in cooking! Here are s...

I've been doing a lot of relatively mindless but decently labor-intensive code-related work (colloquially known, especially in the brog...

It appears that Windows remains ahead in this operating systems arm race: dual booting with Linux has become even more difficult. Here are...

Last week, Travis Hance and I spent hours wading through the many blog posts of the internet to figure out how to set up a simple websi...

The other day, a friend and I were talking about how fun it was to check Google Analytics. When I asked her if she knew most of her readers...

This year, I'm trying this trend where I have a theme instead of a resolution. And this isn't just because I broke all of my concre...

I have a confession. All these years I've been evangelizing strongly statically typed languages, I've been going home at night and ...

This blog post commemorates the better part of a work day I spent installing a dual boot of Ubuntu Linux 13.10 and Windows 8 on my Lenovo X...

The internet does not seem to like Facebook these days. Studies are coming out (for instance, this PLOS ONE study ) suggesting that Faceboo...

When Facebook Graph Search came out, skeptics bemoaned the end of personal privacy. Now that people can perform targeted queries over you...