Lara Schenck
Lover of programming, maker of monsters
Category: Thoughts
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What is Middle-Skill Computing Work?
Middle-skill computing work is an emerging theme in my research to describe the kinds of work and jobs in computing that are not always considered “computing jobs”. Doing this work doesn’t require theoretical CS knowledge, and the jobs tend to be in $40-100k USD salary range. I think “middle-skill computing work” has significant promise for…
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Weekly Wanderings #5 (5)
5 alternative names for this series
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Experimenting with logic in CSS selectors & thinking through the conditional
This post includes an in progress example of logical statements expressed in CSS. The conditional is tricky for me. “If P then Q” is not the same as an if/else statement.
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Things that last
Some thoughts about what lasts, and what doesn’t.
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What, exactly, is a pipeline? [WiH]
This is a very serious question.
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The One True Way [WiH]
The One True Way to write code.
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Twitter thread as blog post: Thoughts on how we write CSS
(Warning: thought-leadery post) Problems with CSS are not a result of flaws in CSS. The problem is how we write CSS.
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Does the "continuous" in Continuous Integration come from continuous mathematics?
A quick post about realizing an intersection between my existing knowledge and something new I am learning. Well, maybe they are both new things.
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Note to future Lara: Read code before you write code during research & development
A lesson learned during research and development for a new project at work.
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Twitter thread as blog post about "We Are Programmers"
I had a lot of impassioned thoughts while on a run today and decided to bang out this Twitter-thread-blog-post instead of letting them die a slow, silent death, alone in my brain, as they often do.
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Embryonic design system
What do you call a design system before it has published modules but after it has started providing useful tools? Naming is hard.
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Breakfast burrito at the airport
I’m eating a breakfast burrito at LAX before my flight back to Pittsburgh. Breakfast burritos at the airport before early flights are a ritual for me, and I felt like writing about it.
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Anti-Notification Workflow
As part of my mission to conquer Twitter anxiety, I’ve figured out a solid workflow for quieting notifications on my phone. These things may be obvious, but they are not the default, so decidedly not obvious.