I tag blog posts rather erratically, and keep meaning to go back and systematically taxonomize my thousands of past posts. One thing that my new blogging platform includes is another way to highlight particular posts …
A few things I recently wrote in other places, in response to questions and claims by others, and would like to preserve and share here.In-person eventsIn response to a claim about why "online-only conferences won’t …
Someone in a group I'm in just asked others' opinions on working in higher education. I said:In big institutions -- such as higher education and government and companies that have over, say, 300 employees -- …
I follow a few main principles to reduce my risk of catching COVID-19:
- Avoiding sharing unfiltered air with people outside my household
- Noticing how safe I am and raising precautions accordingly
- Focusing on protecting myself over protecting unmasked people (in general)
- Spending money
In this post, I detail those principles as well as my specific protocols (masking, ventilation, self-testing, and so on), including links to examples and product vendors.
It's been a busy time. I travelled a bunch in April and May, and June is a respite before I do more travel in July, including family stuff plus Readercon mid-month. I'm trying to get …
Last week, the New York City Council passed several bills. One of them was Int 0814-A-2022, which I had suggested. As the press release says,On June 8, the New York City Council passed the Harihareswara …
Two months ago, I wrote about a new bill aiming to help New Yorkers find out where our nearest defibrillators are. Great news: the text of the bill has been revised and is a lot …
I'm going to be at the feminist scifi/fantasy convention WisCon 2023, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, May 26-29, in person. This'll be my twelfth WisCon, and my ninth one in person.If you haven't registered yet, you can …
At PyCon US 2023, David Lord facilitated an open space discussion of "maintainer burnout, how to survive it, and maybe how to prevent it." Here are some notes (incorporating his; thanks, David!), my analysis, and …
Sadly, my mother died earlier this year. I'm hoping to write more about her in the months to come, but right now I'm just going to publish her obituary. As I said when my father …
