Chrome extensions

I’ve written my first Chrome extensions because I discovered that ColourLovers has an API. Both extensions are about palettes, either using them or creating them. Page Colourizer grabs a random palette or pattern and applies it haphazardly to the current page. Some of the results are pretty garish, but it’s …

RailsBridge Lexington

Yesterday I helped out at the first ever RailsBridge held in Lexington. We had twenty-five people sign up as attendees and maybe ten volunteer coaches, including myself. It’s intended to be an all-day session introducing women to programming, specifically by having them create a simple Ruby on Rails app. I …

gallbladder surgery

I went through my first-ever surgery yesterday: a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. I had my gallbladder removed because I’ve been having gallbladder attacks at …

new job doing Ruby on Rails

I recently changed jobs, going from a web developer position to programming. I had been at a consulting company where I did …

Weekly Tweets – 2012-10-07

New work setup http://t.co/vIbmk5xR # Setting up for the Susan Komen event downtown at CentrePointe #civicrush http://t.co/XyefTBuw #

Weekly Tweets – 2012-09-30

Mom's spider lilies http://t.co/Dh7l5Yoy # Across all brands, the land of box pasta side dishes is full of MSG and partially hydrogenated …

Weekly Tweets – 2012-09-23

Twitter's suggestions on who I might know: the president, an ex-coworker, and an ex-boyfriend. Eeh, close enough. #