Reading Time: 16 minutesPronoun is a spicy word these days and let me tell ya: I love spicy food. I figuratively and literally enjoy a delightful sting when I’m partaking in some sort of nourishment. There’s a lot of talk about pronouns but I want to talk through them: What they are, their linguistic function, and how they

Reading Time: 12 minutesThis here is a friendly introduction to linguistics for programmers. There are many ways to improve our programming skills: watching videos, reading articles, hackathons, and doing code competitions. But there’s another way that gives us less time in front of an IDE: Learning to think about how programming works. We’re not talking about how compilers

Reading Time: 24 minutesThis is a blog post I’ve been meaning to write for like two years but haven’t, because it is a complex topic that’s a kind of modern-day Ouroboros where you don’t really know where to start but at no point do you think, “Everything’s fine; nothing could go wrong.” This is about how a feature

Reading Time: 4 minutesPeople are sometimes unprepared to learn that I have a deep (read: unhealthy) interest in languages. Up to and including, “how do you even figure out what makes a language so languagey?” (sidenote: apologies to the mother of the 8 year old a few days ago who wanted to know why bears are called bears)

Reading Time: 15 minutesI am a front-end developer who is FED up about front-end development. If you write front-end, this isn’t about you personally. It’s about how your choices make me angry. Also this is about how my choices have made me angry. Also this is mostly just about choices, the technologies are incidental. Note: The views expressed

Reading Time: 4 minutesFolks who get to know me usually (and regrettably) discover that I am a language nerd. I like learning languages and I like learning about languages. There’s all sorts of things that are fascinating about languages: where they come from, why they sound a certain way, why grammar is what it is. But lately, I’ve