Coding Freedom and the Cruel Contradiction of Creative Collaboration

About a month ago I finished reading the highly intelligent Coding Freedom by E. Gabriella Coleman.

Paraphrased Code Poetry

I thought it would be funny to go through source code and replace all the keywords with synonyms (eg. try –> attempt, catch –> seize). The results didn’t end up being that funny. But when I tried replacing all the words in various pieces of code with auto-generated synonyms the results were fairly magical.

Processing Sketches

I have wanted to do something with Processing ever since I learned of its existence.

An Attempt at Science

Last Saturday I spent the afternoon messing around with some open data sets using IPython notebook and pandas.

A List of Github Repositories that Share Titles with Songs by Tegan and Sara

It recently came to my attention there exists a plethora of github repositories that have the honour of sharing their names with songs by Tegan and Sara. As the world’s foremost* Tegan and Sara/code crossover enthusiast I feel that it is my duty to enumerate these repositories and give them each a nod of approval.

Emily Dickinson should have tried Linux

Emily Dickinson, frustrated Microsoft user, describes the blue screen of death in poem 465:

“With Blue – uncertain stumbling Buzz -
Between the light – and me -
And then the Windows failed – and then
I could not see to see – ” (13-16)