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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Founder of Changeset Consulting. (In the MeFi Mall!) Current main projects: holding workshops and writing a book to help open source project maintainers.

Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. Open source entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, Recurse Center alumna, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software. New York City, cisgender, married, without children, born & raised in the US, middle-aged, upper-middle-class, a child of high-caste Hindus, generally ovo-lacto-vegetarian for purposes of large-gathering catering orders, generally friendly.

Into free and open source software and free culture, science fiction, the Mahabharata, tax history, Vienna Teng, the Mountain Goats, Dar Williams, Ellen Ullman, Zen Cho, Ann Leckie, Neal Stephenson, Jon Bois, Lavanya Sankaran, Hari Kondabolu, and hiking and biking.

A blog post I wrote in 2020, on defensiveness and vulnerability on MeFi and things that make it harder to reduce: "Misunderstanding What It Takes To Make Recurse Center's Social Rules Work".

In 2021 and 2022 I made a lot of front page posts about short scifi/fantasy stories. I blogged about what I chose and why.

2023: I blogged about my current approach to reducing my COVID infection and transmission risk, "Eldercare, Family Caretaking, and End-of-life Logistics: Stuff I Learned" (made it to the front page), and how I get medical experts to actually listen and respond to the question I've asked.