Right-to-roam, relics, dangerous bees and horses — Often when I go on trips these days, I don’t seriously research the things I want to do until I get there and I’m laid out on the bed that first night. So when I was researching Cornwall that first night, one of the things I found was an app…

That answers all your celestial questions — This fall I did Recurse Center. When I thought about how to spend my time there, one area of interest stuck out to me — voice technology. I see my mom use dictation software and voice assistants often. The software is at once impressive and also has room for improvement…

Machine learning brings Medium’s tags to life — This was originally published Jan 18, 2018 on Hatch, Medium’s internal instance, to explain a hack week project to the company. When you publish a post on Medium, you’re prompted to add labels to your post that describe what your post is about. These tags are mostly free-form. Authors can…

And some things I wished I’d known about open source — Three years ago I essentially stopped maintaining my public code repositories on GitHub. Things were quiet on them, but occasionally I’d get a pull request from some poor soul, and I’d let their efforts languish, putting off the work to review it and make sure it fit. …

SQL isn’t a procedural language. Your SQL query doesn’t say “do this, then do that, and that will give me the result I want”. Instead, your query declares what you want from the database, without laying out the exact recipe for fetching it. …

. Briefly Hidden Figures is the story of the black women who worked as mathematicians at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. It spans the time between the creation of the segregated West Computing Group during World War II in the 40s through the Apollo program of the 60s. It…