I volunteer at two housing non profits in Seattle, Sound Foundations NW, which is focused on temporary emergency housing, and Facing Homelessness’s BLOCK Project homes, focused on sustainable permanent housing. I'm a Team Lead / Lead Volunteer in both organizations, and I love being able to contribute something meaningful back to the community. This post … Continue reading The BLOCK Project – Permanent Tiny Homes in Seattle
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My Ode to Twitter
One thousand, nine hundred and seventy tweets. That’s my entire tweet history, fourteen years of my digital life (I guess more like the first seven, until I stopped tweeting around 2016). That tiny number doesn't really convey what Twitter meant to me: the relationships it created, and the opportunities I received. If I were to … Continue reading My Ode to Twitter
Six Months in Seattle
Edit: I found this in my drafts folder after six years (!) I did some minor edits, but it's otherwise a snapshot of our lives in mid-March, 2017, and it made me laugh as well as brought up a bunch of nostalgia. Yes, I can't believe it's been six months already! There's a lot to … Continue reading Six Months in Seattle
My love of travel (and London)
For a blog that is supposed to be about coding, cake and travel, there has been zero talk of travel so far. Mostly because it's hard to distill something so complex and meaningful to me down to a series of words. I love travelling because you experience new things. You decide when you want that … Continue reading My love of travel (and London)
lambda ladies
I'm really excited to be able to attend Lambda Ladies in Brisbane, March 17-19. It's a free 3 day workshop run by Red Hat, using Haskell to cover a (re)introduction to functional programming. The last time I looked at functional programming after university was probably when F# came out. I'm looking forward to a chunk … Continue reading lambda ladies
coding, cake and travel 