Hey readers who are interested in learning programming languages: I wrote a Queer Your Tech article for Autostraddle about selecting a school and applying. Go check it out!

Writing notes on borrowed library books has always resulted in a disjointed mess of paper slips and smartphone scribbles. Once the library loan ends, then POOF, all of your notes and highlights disappear into the aether! How can you stop this? Well, Bookcision helps a lot if you’re using the Kindle app. My history with note-taking I love borrowing paper books from friends and the library. But this gets problematic because I also LOVE scribbling notes in books....

So I’ve got some really fantastic news. I’ve been accepted into the third cohort of the Ada Developers Academy, a tuition-free programming school for women. It is based here in Seattle. Unlike a traditional college or university, this non-profit throws you into the deep end with intensive, on-site courses held 9am-5pm for seven months. Phew! In addition to scooping Ruby, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into our skulls, we’ll also be accountable for 15-20 hours of homework each week....

We got a fancy new scanner that attempted to convert my awkward 2010 Denglish journal entries into machine-encoded text. This was the result. Next time I get stuck writing, maybe I’ll feed my notes through this thing for inspiration.

Last night, I participated in my first Moth event and told a story called “The Body on the Trail.” It was great fun, and I can’t wait to share more tales in the future!