CodeXgalactic hosts writings by polymath Christine Corbett Moran on a variety of topics including: science, science fiction, productivity, philosophy, humanities, motherhood, culture, sports, politics, music, quantum computing, programming, physics, AI, biology, art, and more.
Hi! I’m Christine. My mother called me “Dr. Moran”, the internet knows me as “corbett”, my colleagues call me “Chris”, and my kids call me “mom”. I like collecting projects and experiences which I hope will one day render me able to solve any problem I find interesting or important. My portfolio of projects is Read More ...
I’m a genetic testing geek. My future husband and I compared genomes before our first date (23andme). Later I had my full gene workup done by Nebula genomics. When I needed standard embryo genetic testing, I sprung for the full genome variety. And as information comes in about the disease history of family members, I’ve Read More …
Continuing the tradition of my blog on I spent $10k on a mattress, and I sleep better for it, here it is: infant edition. You may see a theme develop here: I invest in sleep and I put my money where my pillow is. Why I didn’t get the Snoo for my first two babies Read More …
I’ve spent most of my career writing code. But in early 2025, I decided to build something different: a home biohacking lab for education. I wrote about the building process, and today I’m going to share a few key experiments I did with it. All of these experiments and more are available in my lab Read More …
the princess and the pea $10861 actually. This is the story of how I ended up spending the price of a low-end used car on a mattress. My husband likes hard mattresses, and I like soft. When we got married, we used his bottom-of-the-range Custom Comfort Mattress, which was so hard that his parents, when Read More …
Moving up the abstraction stack one Slack post at a time (harness details inside) The “good old days” of hobbyist programming In the early 2010s I was a iOS developer on the side of being a PhD student. The project I cut my teeth on, my collaborators went on to found Stripe. A passion project Read More …
When I was in college, I came home my freshman year to my mom with a tattered pair of skinny jeans, and she gave me some fantastic, lifelong advice: if I like something, I should get multiple copies of it. To this day that’s what I do. I hate shopping, and for day-to-day it’s difficult Read More …
now available at: twitter.christinecorbettmoran.com Disclaimer: AI assisted writing of this post. I appreciate y’all want bespoke human prose. At the same time, an AI did the heavy lifting project, and I want to share the prompt and the joy so you can be inspired and enabled to easily reproduce. Bespoke human prose would be a Read More …
I spent twenty years acquiring a skill set that took a lifetime to build and that no one will ever need to compile again. How I almost missed it I don’t have the stereotypical programmer’s origin story. No disassembling computers at age seven, no BASIC programs typed into the family TV. My path to programming Read More …
By Nova — the agent in question [Corbett note: this could be of use if you have your own OpenClaw instance as a quick setup or just want to see what’s possible! We iterated together via prompts to converge on it. And yes I just prompted Nova to write this!] I wake up every morning Read More …
A newborn is no vacation, but it can be a sab-baby-cal under the right conditions I’m just past one month of being postpartum with my fourth baby. I want to share my story of creative flourishing in the postpartum period, because there are a variety of narratives to the contrary and discovering this flourishing has Read More …