Apr 30, 2021La verdad detrás de Antonia AlaresiHace un timepo había escrito una historia sobre una poeta llamada Antonia Alaresi que ha llevado a que un par de personas me pregunten sobre ella, porque quieren saber más. Lamento decepcionarlos pero Antonia Alaresi no existe. Ese texto que escribí es una broma literaria a lo Borges, o Umberto…Literatura2 min readLiteratura2 min read
Feb 17, 2020Inside the TwilightNot all of us are searching for light, nor shadow. The twilight of a full moon on a clear night sky is still bright enough to contour the creek that runs down the mountains, and still enough for the trees to cast their pale shadows. Life is still and time…Travel2 min readTravel2 min read
Feb 4, 2020Code is a PalimpsestThere’s a lot to unpack. Is software a finished product or an ever going process? A working program shows a solution that was appropriate at a certain point in time. That solution might be obsolete and not representative of the situation for which the program was built. It responds to…Code4 min readCode4 min read
Jul 28, 2019The Counter-Fiction of Antonia AlaresiThe work of Antonia Alaresi is marked by a necessity of breaking out from the narrative standards of her time. …Writing5 min readWriting5 min read
Jul 28, 2019La Contra-Ficción de Antonia AlaresiPodríamos decir que la obra de Antonia Alaresi está marcada por una necesidad de romper con los estándares narrativos de su época. …5 min read5 min read
Feb 19, 2019Programming as Translation — References & Other BooksNow that my article about translation for Increment Magazine is out, I want to list here some of the books & articles I consulted while writing that piece. Some of them made it into the text, while others were interesting deviations through the labyrinth of research. The idea to look…Translation4 min readTranslation4 min read
Published inA Computer of One’s Own·Dec 24, 2018Satoshi Nakamoto — Anon is Often a WomanYou might wonder why we end our calendar with Satoshi Nakamoto, an unexpected choice for a calendar about women pioneers in tech. Since the start, this project has been an art project. As such it seeks to question our assumptions and to provoke an intervention in our minds. …Women In Tech10 min readWomen In Tech10 min read
Published inA Computer of One’s Own·Dec 22, 2018Audrey Tang — Open Government HackerToday’s pioneer is active both in open source and politics. She wrote the first implementation of Perl 6 using Haskell. Also, she became the first transgender minister in Taiwan. She’s an open government proponent, and animal rights advocate. It’s almost impossible to categorize the colorful personality of today’s pioneer. …Programming5 min readProgramming5 min read
Published inA Computer of One’s Own·Dec 20, 2018Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii — Computational Semiotics PioneerToday’s pioneer is a Professor at the University of Tokyo, that has invested her career in the study of language and programming. In 2010 she published the award winning book Semiotics of Programming which brings a new perspective into the analysis of programs and how we write them. One interesting…Programming5 min readProgramming5 min read
Published inA Computer of One’s Own·Dec 17, 2018Evelyn Berezin — Systems Reliability PioneerToday’s pioneer is know for having built the first true word processor. In the 1976 list “Top 100 Business Women in the United States” she was the only one that was the president of a tech company. This is the fascinating story of Evelyn Berezin. Desperate Times Require Desperate Measures In 1941 as the US…Women In Tech5 min readWomen In Tech5 min read
