Last week dose explored three “places in time”: St. Louis in the early decades of the 20th century; Detroit between 1935 and 1985; and Chicago suburb Oak Park ca. 1906, when Frank Lloyd Wright completed Unity Temple. Those three US-centric books
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Celebrating Female Explorers in the Middle East
The Middle East has long been a region rich in history and culture with natural untouched landscapes. While exploration has traditionally been dominated by male adventurers, there have been numerous brave and trailblazing women who have ventured into the region,
S25:E4 – Diversity Dialogues in Tech (Ale Thomas)
Saron talks to Ale Thomas, Developer Advocate and Web Developer at Kubeshop | Mixed Change. Ale talks about growing up in Mexico and learning to code on her own. She walks us through her career history and how she paved
The So-fine Real-time ML Paradigm
Introduction Each year, Etsy hosts an event known as “CodeMosaic” – an internal hackathon in which Etsy admin propose and build bold advances quickly in our technology across a number of different themes. People across Etsy source ideas, organize into
Places in Time I
Like most human beings, I can be contradictory at times. One area where this manifests is architectural surveys: books that usually collect buildings of a certain typology, but also ones spanning a particular timeframe or through some other theme. I’ve
S25:E3 – Self-Taught Coding Stories of a Former Lab Scientist (Vanessa Vun)
Join us as we sit down with Vanessa Vun, Frontend Engineer at SciShield. Vanessa talks about how she first built a computer when she was in middle school but ended up taking a different path for her studies and found
S25:E2 – The Journey from a Bootcamp to a FAANG (Alex Lee)
Meet Alex Lee, Frontend Engineer at Amazon. In this episode, we learn why Alex pivoted away from Mechanical Engineering and we follow his journey of transformation, opting to learn to code through a bootcamp over multiple law school offers. Alex
Four Monographs
Of the numerous books publishers send me for review — be they requested by me, pitched by them, or arriving at my doorstep unsolicited — the highest percentage of them are monographs. This fact goes against the occasional sirens over
The Arabian Majlis : A Haven of Tradition and Hospitality
majlis المجلس, is an Arabic term meaning “sitting room” Nestled at the heart of Arabian culture and hospitality lies the Arabian majlis – a space that transcends mere architecture and serves as a sanctuary for communal bonding and tradition. This
S25:E1 – Pivoting to Tech from Biomedical Science (Marley Anthony)
In the kickoff episode to Season 25, Saron talks to Marley Anthony, Software Engineer at Bench Accounting. Marley talks about his career pivot from studying biomedical sciences to getting into tech. He unravels his strategies and tactics to secure his