The podcast app for nerds who love RSS Last weekend, I wanted to generate a playlist of the latest episodes of all my favorite podcasts, so I could listen to them while cleaning. But I couldn’t find an easy way to do that. I’ve been using iTunes for podcasts for…

For every insect, there’s a Facebook group to celebrate it — My friends complain that their Facebook is full of endless baby pictures. I nod, pretending to agree. My Facebook is also filled with babies. But they are not quite the same. Mine are spider babies. And there are thousands of them. Bug Facebook is a loose confederation of Facebook groups…

Gothamist was a business model based on taking advantage of writers, we should move past it, not resurrect it Last autumn, Gothamist and its sibling sites like LAist and Chicagoist were shut down by their owner, Joe Ricketts after the writers unionized. It was personal for me, because a lot…

There are plenty of junior developers, but not many jobs for them A few months ago I attended an event for women in tech. A lot of the attendees were new developers, graduates from code schools or computer science programs. …

The Aziz Ansari controversy is tearing liberals apart I’ve watched with a mixture of horror and fascination over the past few days as my facebook feed has been taken over by a bitter war between people who normally agree. These are largely secular liberal people in blue states. …

James Damore was fooled This morning I read the James Damore lawsuit against Google. It’s the second employee lawsuit I read recently against Google. The first one being the Kelly Ellis one.* They are in some ways opposite lawsuits: Damore is suing Google for discrimination against men and Ellis is…