Burning Women
September 27, 2024An awful tradition of the patriarchy that won't let go.
Written by Maria Paktiti who splits her time between Greece and Mexico, and tries to understand computers, and humans, for the past couple of decades. She writes about anything and everything. She enjoys talking about herself in the third person. You should follow her on Twitter.
Wear Sunscreen and Be Nice
August 29, 2024My favorite graduation speeches over the years.
Rooms of Their Own
August 17, 2024Which famous author had rows of dummy bookcases with fake book spines and who wrote for 14 years exclusively from his bed?
On Being Different
August 04, 2024On the right to be different without loosing any of your rights
On Disembodied Hands
July 24, 2024Julio Cortazar's Season of the Hand vs Charles Addams's The Thing
The Rule of Thirds
September 19, 2023On the nonlinearity of progress and the rules that apply when you are chasing a dream
A few of my favorite things
September 14, 2023A list of things that put a smile on my face
Reversing tragedy
March 13, 2020TL;DR How the Coronavirus outbreak could reverse the roles between Europeans and immigrants
Favorite artists > The Awkward Yeti
March 02, 2020TL;DR The Awkward Yeti is funny and insightful and you should all follow their art
Celebrities replying to sexist comments
February 28, 2020TL;DR My favorite thing on the Internet yesterday: celebrities replying to sexist comments
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
February 27, 2020TL;DR I read a book and I liked it
Weekly Favorites
February 14, 2020TL;DR My favorite things on the Internet for this week
Handling Postgres exceptions with Clojure
February 12, 2020TL;DR You can dig out Postgres exception codes in your Clojure app using getSQLState.
Joker on the fight against injustice
February 10, 2020TL;DR What (and why) we should learn from the speech Joaquin Phoenix gave at the Oscars
Steal Like an Artist
February 09, 2020TL;DR I read 'Steal Like an Artist' and I'm writing about the bits I found interesting
You know that multitasking is bad, but do you know how bad?
February 08, 2020TL;DR Rather than getting more done faster, you get worse results slower.
Hello World
February 07, 2020TL;DR This is Maria and I'll be writing stuff on this blog