🎶 Summertime and the working is constant
Happy June! The weather here in Philly has been perfect the past couple of days, and in between washing chalk off my driveway and buying watermelon every...
It's only a joke, Twitter
There’s something about the annual Goodreads Reading Challenge that is super motivating for me in a way that other challenges are not. Every year, I set a...
How do you fake a tornado?
I spent a few tense hours last night with my preschooler in our basement because of a tornado warning area, so let’s talk weather. The past couple years have...
Python's Caduceus syndrome
This year, according to StackOverflow’s annual survey, Python became the second-most beloved programming language (behind Rust, which is the language people...
We're taking it very seriously
Fire Dance, Paul Gaughin 1891Wishing everyone in the U.S. a meaningful and relaxing Memorial Day Weekend. Everyone except First American Financial Corp. On...
The commoditization of data science
The Factory at Asnieres, Van Gogh, 1887One of my favorite subreddits is (sorry in advance) r/programmingcirclejerk, because it offers a place to call out...
Our beautiful, broken internet
Thanks to everyone for subscribing! Let’s get this party started. Source. In a recent, beautiful piece at Wired magazine, “Why I Still Love Tech”, Paul Ford...
Remember when Paul Graham was right?
Paul Graham, one of the most respected voices in Silicon Valley, both from the business and technology side, recently wrote: His replies soon became a chorus...
Welcome to Normcore Tech
I’m Vicki, and I like to think about technology in all sorts of different ways. At work, I’m a data science consultant working with a wide variety of...