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- Why I am voting for Elizabeth Warren
- Iron and cheese: how I used lactoferrin to treat iron overload (part 4)
- In case of authoritarian takeover, break glass
- Why climate change and the decline of democracy are happening at the same time
- Why you shouldn’t trust people who support sexual predators
- How to avoid supporting sexual predators
- Goth fashion tips for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- Signs that you might be an advice columnist
- Iron and cheese: how I used lactoferrin to treat iron overload (part 3)
- Iron and cheese: how I used lactoferrin to treat iron overload (part 2)
- Iron and cheese: how I used lactoferrin to treat iron overload
- Choosing which consulting services to offer
- Repost: How calls for “civility” are harming tech companies
- Clarification of Double Union post
- What I learned writing my first non-fiction book
- Finding food allergies and sensitivities
- Double Union is dead, long live Double Union!
- Hiring a facilitator for the Ally Skills Workshop
- Something is rotten in the Linux Foundation
- Living in a collapsing democracy
- Bryan Cantrill has been accused of verbal abuse by at least seven people
- Yesterday’s joke protest sign just became today’s reality
- In praise of the 30-hour work week
- Cross-post: Alcohol and Inclusivity: Planning Tech Events with Non-Alcoholic Options
- Advice for women in tech who are tired of talking about women in tech
- Getting free of toxic tech culture
- Repealing Obamacare will repeal my small business
- What white supremacists don’t want you to know: the Paradox of Tolerance
- The Al Capone theory of sexual harassment
- Miss Marple investigates Trump/Russia
- Preventing jet lag, one hour per day
- HOWTO make easy readable protest signs
- Yes, Trump does hate puppies
- Update on signs of fascism in the U.S.
- One way to resist Trump: become an Ally Skills Workshop teacher
- Fighting American fascism depends on understanding American anti-Black racism
- Why tech worker resistance is crucial to preventing large-scale human rights abuses in the U.S.
- Radical self-care for activists in the time of Trump
- A post-election guide to changing hearts and minds
- Spreadsheet of signs of fascism
- Actions I have taken to prepare for the Trump administration
- When is naming abuse itself abusive?
- Why I won’t be attending Systems We Love
- Crosspost: No more rock stars: how to stop abuse in tech communities
- HOWTO therapy: what psychotherapy is, how to find a therapist, and when to fire your therapist
- The Ally Skills Workshop returns, Impostor Syndrome book, public speaking and more
- Between the spreadsheets: dating by the numbers
- How to eat paleo at Trader Joe’s (mostly)
- How to have more fun while online dating
- The Ada Initiative is ending, but our work continues on
- More ways to fight white supremacy
- Ban boring mike-based Q&A sessions and use index cards instead
- Donating $1,000 to fight white supremacy
- Greatest hits
- Starting your own feminist backchannel
- More adventures in self-doxxing: my online dating profile
- How did you find your co-founder(s)?
- TV I like
- Thanking things for their service
- Operating systems war story: How feminism helped me solve one of file systems’ oldest conundrums
- Handy tips for my Internet harassers
- HOWTO design a code of conduct for your community
- Trying to get paid to work on diversity in tech? Read this
- Two cold tips for 2014
- Here’s my favorite operating systems war story, what’s yours?
- Meet Double Union, a new feminist makerspace in San Francisco
- I am much less disabled!
- 2013: Tipping point for the Linux kernel community?
- Deleting Ada Lovelace from the history of computing
- Coding is a human right
- Rebooting the Ada Lovelace Mythos
- Strong women and the military
- Ball lightning: the coolest thing you’ve never heard of
- Suicide and society: Where does responsibility for preventing suicide lie?
- Inbox Thirty-Two: How one email addict manages her email
- Book recommendations please?
- Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions table updated
- Wednesday Geek Woman: Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer
- Essential San Francisco software
- The Linux community can’t remain silent while leaders make anti-woman comments
- Geek Feminist Sumana Harihareswara makes $10,000 donation matching challenge to the Ada Initiative
- Has open source given to you? Give back so women have the same chance you did
- Another tech bubble is close to popping
- Ada Lovelace Day party in San Francisco
- The best place to work-from-coffee-shop in San Francisco: Black Point Cafe
- Google search loves me
- DEFCON: Why conference harassment matters
- Yes, brogrammer culture is pervasive
- Overcoming my fear of not speaking
- What free speech really means
- The practical reality of contraception: A guide for men
- I am disabled
- Politicians should ban Super PACs in self-defense
- Snowed under in Australia
- A personal appeal to donate to the Ada Initiative
- A personal appeal for support from Valerie Aurora, executive director of the Ada Initiative
- Three shocking reasons to donate to the Ada Initiative
- Example conference anti-harassment policy turns one year old
- Ada Lovelace Day: Sandra K. Johnson
- Sady Doyle on the connection between mansplaining and street harassment
- “Snowed in” in Tucson
- Finding a healthy work culture
- Help improve open source, make the world a better place, AND travel to Australia
- Conference speakers: Support anti-harassment policies in your speaker proposals
- Ada Initiative seed funding round successful
- Updating “Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions”
- Investing some social capital
- Old kernel programmers can too learn new tricks
- Ada Initiative Seed 100 donation drive opens
- On the necessity of assholes
- ICANN nominations open
- Take the Ada Initiative Census – and update your resumé!
- Census of women in open technology and culture opens
- Call for translations: HOWTO Encourage Women in Linux
- Valerie email ping time very high
- The Ada Initiative launches: promoting women in open technology and culture
- LCA 2011 trip report
- Going to LCA 2011
- Last day at Red Hat
- DARPA contracts vs. dreams
- More eyeballs please, nom nom
- Hair update
- Xmas decorations
- Lessons learned from Julian Assange and Keith Henson
- Friendly conference update
- Leaving Red Hat
- Back on the speaker circuit
- Groping is a compliment!
- LWN article on harassment in open source on Hacker News
- An inside look at being a woman in open source
- Get your conference anti-harassment policy here!
- RFC: Draft conference anti-harassment policy
- An Open Letter to Wired Magazine
- Street harassment reporting app now available for iPhone and Android
- It’s not just Noirin
- Red Hat support for XFS
- Linus Torvalds: “I really do want to do the merge”
- Alternative Tucson
- Impostor’s syndrome and “You only got admitted because you are a woman”
- Making politics safe for the Internet generation
- Catching up to 2005-era blogging teknology
- Grace Hopper 2010 keynote update: Now “Cross-boundary Collaboration”
- Grace Hopper keynote “Camaraderie & Cross Gender Collaboration”
- Yet another fascinating union mounts release
- Grand Canyon trip report
- We now resume our regularly scheduled hiking
- I want an Elena Kagan t-shirt
- I want an Elena Kagan t-shirt
- The cable company that saves kittens
- Leaving San Francisco
- Union mounts update
- Moving out of San Francisco (and programming)
- Comment randomness
- Followup: You can do something about street harassment
- You can do something about street harassment
- You can do something about street harassment
- Wikipedia wins
- What do jokes and bugs have in common?
- Brief union mounts update
- Sleeping with the enemy
- Linux Storage and Filesystems Workshop
- Women and self-promotion
- Great benchmarking advice
- Cat person deconversion
- Soft updates plus a tiny journal
- Nuclear reactors washing up on beaches
- Solving the t-shirt problem
- ZFS gets deduplication – the right way
- Bay bridge workaround
- Dear San Francisco: I love you but I need more warning
- New LWN articles: Featherstitch and log-structured file systems
- Union mounts (writable overlays) documentation and release
- Riveting laptop
- File systems training classes experiment
- Carbon METRIC BUTTLOAD print
- Spears
- Geek Feminism blog
- The Thank-You Meme: The coreboot project
- Programmer time
- Btrfs talk: The 10-second Cut
- Womenomics
- Btrfs article
- Breaking up with Facebook
- btrfs demo script
- Linux Conference Australia CFP closes soon
- Security deposit update
- Citiapartments keeping my deposit
- Interview with me for Linux Magazine
- Soft updates explained
- Common knowledge and the Cold War
- Smiling!
- SHA-1 collision expected within a year
- Detecting fraud with math
- Chunkfs summary on LWN
- Finding “Cookie Monster”
- Profession: Victim
- Open source analysis of SEC data
- Btrfs talk at OSCON ’09
- In love
- What I did on my summer vacation
- Union mounts with copyup readdir() posted for review
- readdir() cookie requirements
- What should I write?
- Friends help friends use Linux
- 64-bit testing tools
- Random updates
- Sun Strategy Spinner
- Twitter, take 2
- Don’t Panic – fsync(), ext3/4, and your data
- Halting State
- I exist on Twitter
- Inbox zero
- The invasion of the jocks
- Union mounts
- Relatime Recap
- Ada Lovelace Day: Pauline Middelink
- Parallel file system worlds
- High five
- First dates explained
- Name change
- Cute machines
- Disabling the touchpad while typing
- Look ma, two hands!
- First major public exploitation of a compare-by-hash based system
- 64-bit e2fsprogs publicly available
- Shoulder surgery successful
- FAST ’09
- Party at the science museum
- Latest LWN article: Coccinelle semantic patches
- Calling all video bloggers
- OSCON 2009: San Jose
- Adventures in red hats
- One factor in San Francisco’s pedestrian deaths
- My Christmas presents to myself
- Joined Facebook
- TCP/IP Drinking Game officially orphaned
- Free Linux in the Mission
- World’s largest giant squid collection destroyed
- Semantic patches
- Graffiti made me do it
- g-speak: The ultimate anti-RSI
- A band-aid solution
- Update your Val spotting guide
- bash lesson of the day
- EULA Hotel
- 112
- New music
- Liquid advice
- Things to do in Mountain View before it’s too late
- 108
- Roland Dreier: Open source is good for your career
- The anti-schwag movement
- Programmers don’t own books, part II
- Peopleware and books
- LCA laptop bag even cooler than previously thought
- Facebook unperson
- UNIX sockets programming FAQ
- Linux Plumbers Conference in review
- To SSD or not to SSD?
- Latest KHB: UNIX Internals
- Emacs key bindings for Firefox and other stupid “power user” tricks
- Uncertainty
- Giant squid on display at the Smithsonian
- Linux Plumbers Conference on track to sell out
- Things that made it possible for me to sell my car
- Dear LJ friends
- Refactoring and dirt
- Linux Plumbers Conf accepted speakers announced
- A week in the life of Val’s hair
- I hate UNIX
- Latest KHB: The Practice of Programming
- More feminist than thou
- Giant squid dissection video
- Keynote speakers for Linux Plumbers Conference!
- poll(), fifos, and Mac OS X
- What is the VAL up to?
- Linux Plumbers Conf submission deadline extended
- Working for Red Hat
- Nina Reiser’s body found
- Midget mooning
- Right and wrong, getopt-style
- Vonage alternatives?
- Kernel Hacker’s Bookshelf: Ultimate Physical Limits of Computation
- Linux Plumbers Conference – registration open, and CFP
- Stupid C preprocessor tricks
- Berke Breathed
- The Best of Portland (that you never heard of)
- Micro-breaks
- Modern network file system trace!
- Manageability metrics
- SuperHappyDevHouse 25
- Asking for it
- Coincidences
- Sometimes it’s the hardware
- Even the criminals have MySpace pages now
- Supporting assertive women
- Asking for it
- Notes for debugging file systems
- Office Space: Cheap beer edition
- Random tid-bits
- File systems are irrelevant
- Firefox, tabs, drop-downs, and Mac OS X
- Juvenile colossal squid captured
- Easter egg
- Linux == murder
- bdar – block device archive
- Linux consultants untie [1]
- CRFS code released!
- LJ philosophy
- Useful ext3 documentation (and undelete tool)
- The Hans Reiser Show
- Focus follows mouse on Mac OS X: Only $14.95!
- Maintainer needed: TCP/IP Drinking Game
- Software testing: Lessons from the Roadrunner
- One more reason not to pay for software
- How to get your study in the national news in 6 easy steps
- Speaking at LugRadio Live 2008
- Kernel Hacker’s Bookshelf: Synthesis
- Macbook Air part 1: Keyboard and mouse
- HOWTO debug silent data corruption
- SuperHappyDevHouse 23
- Blogging still creepy, says Area Woman
- Pong Hero update
- Ignore pop culture at your peril
- Spears
- Open source Wii pong
- Stuff I learned this week
- Linux.conf.au 2008
- Programming in front of the fire
- Vonage: Good, bad, or ugly?
- New Mexico weather
- Updated company web site
- fsck parallelization patches out for review
- RIP Linuxconf.au bag
- Perfectionism and pthreads
- Instant board meeting
- Keith Henson is a child molester
- Sex(ual harassment) in the City
- Where’s Val?
- Stupid geeky games: operating system free association
- Portland vs. San Francisco: Cage Match!!!
- Backing up the Blackberry 8100 on Linux with barry
- The absurdity of it all
- The code monkey’s guide to cryptographic hashes for content-based addressing
- Vonage, voicemail, and crash-only software
- Best. Apartment. Ever.
- Moving to San Francisco
- Truth in advertising
- Lazyweb: Laptop acceleration chirper
- Overheard in Portland
- Overheard in D.C., random sighting in Albuquerque
- Amusing cryptography apocrypha – the Rip van Winkle cipher
- Wine selection algorithm
- The consequences of smart phones
- Compiling lockstat with 2.6.x kernel
