Theresa O’Connor
Theresa O’Connor
I’m a queer lady, Erin Jr.’s mama, and Eryn’s partner. The three of us live in San Francisco, though Eryn and I both work in Cupertino. I love to travel, I enjoy watching sports, I have the unfortunate habits of collecting keyboards and watches, and I’m illegal in over 60 countries.
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When I link to other sites, especially in big link roundup posts like yesterday’s, I try to cite the author of the post by name. Not just by name, but with a link. This is the Web, after all. Here’s a not-at-all-random example, drawn from yesterday’s post, of how I typically do this: A simple link with attribution...
Congress gave Trump a free pass for bombing Iran – his attack on Venezuela is the logical consequence, by Alex Rikleen. A new, old type of lawlessness as Trump attacks Venezuela — and an opening for a better America , by Chris Geidner. Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become, by...
In Christian churches that follow the Gregorian calendar, today is the Epiphany, which commemorates the Magi visiting the baby Jesus. It also marks the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas (though it is not one of the twelve days itself). I grew up calling it Little Christmas—in fact, when I was a kid, I thought the...
The Chinese pronoun 他 (tā) (U+4ED6) was originally a gender-neutral, third-person pronoun. Over a century ago, Chinese linguist 劉 (ㄌㄧㄡˊ)半 (ㄅㄢˋ)農 (ㄋㄨㄥˊ)/刘半农 (Liú Bànnóng) created a female third-person pronoun, the character 她 (tā) (U+5979), by replacing the radical 人, meaning “person,” with 女, which means “woman.”...
Say you’ve got a CSV file with many rows, and what you want is a directory of JSON files, one per row. I’ve found myself needing to do this a couple times lately, and this sort of thing is super easy to do using the csv and json modules in Python’s standard library, so I thought I’d write it up here. Convert CSV to...
I became President of Ecma International today. I’m very grateful to the General Assembly for entrusting me with this responsibility. I look forward to collaborating with my fellow officers, the Executive Committee, and the Secretariat over the coming year. ●
OH: “Without all my Pokémon stuff, I’d just be an ordinary rainbow princess!”
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