This is the third post in my breastfeeding series. Part 1, One Year of Breastfeeding: A Celebration Part 2, Breastfeeding: The Twelve Month Event Horizon I’ve been delighted to continue to breastfeed my toddler past one year, and recently we passed our two year mark. Breastfeeding a toddler came with some new challenges, including navigating Read More …
This is the second post in my breastfeeding series. Black holes are objects so massive that nothing, not even light can escape them. The so-called “event horizon” marks the boundary around the black hole; cross this event horizon and there is no turning back. As a space traveler crossing into this event horizon, you’d notice Read More …
Before I had a baby, I looked at other babies with the same affection I looked at my morning alarm. I knew I had it in me to be a good mom. Maternal was another matter. I wasn’t certain I would be overwhelmed by motherly warmth. I was happy to find that being maternal came 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 …
You can check on my intro-to-Claude Code’s capabilities projects which impressed me. This more recent project involves the fact that I just gave birth so items like: Are top of my mind as is: Claude Code nearly one shots the solution Naturally while I was breastfeeding and my baby, happily sated, doted, and gazed upon, Read More …
How I Plan I last wrote about using Passion Planner as my go-to todo list 5 years ago. I keep an eye out for alternatives, but it’s still the same story. Since I’m extremely digital, it may seem odd that I keep a paper planner. It’s not my only way of tracking todos or goals, Read More …
When asked on The Cheeky Pint podcast how we educate our children, my husband Casey Handmer replied “benign neglect.” It’s a cheeky answer that captures something real: we’re neither tiger nor helicopter parents. But after seven years and three kids (with a fourth on the way), we’ve developed a more deliberate approach. Here’s what we’ve Read More …
After a long time separating out my humanities and lifestyle blogging from my technical blogging, I’m transitioning my Medium over to this blog permanently to have a unified polymathic single stop shop for thoughts. This process was a bit cumbersome to discover, as the AIs and many threads claimed there was a plugin or native Read More …
Because of my blog series on freezing my eggs in my early thirties a lot of people have contacted me over the years, some friends and some strangers. Some of these are people considering freezing their own eggs, others are going through a fertility journey where egg extraction is likely in the cards. They happen Read More …