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 …