Writing Archive
Personal blog posts
2020
2020-12-22: How advertising is making hatred and bigotry worse. Published to Medium.
2020-09-29: The Thinking Behind Codidact’s Abilities System. Published to The Startup, on Medium.
2020-06-26: An interview with Monica Cellio about Codidact. Published to Medium.
2020-06-16: You should drop Harry Potter and pick up Percy Jackson. Really. Published to Medium.
2020-03-02: Codidact: The community-oriented Q&A platform. Published to Medium.
2019
2019-12-02: Review: “Running Out of Time”, by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Posted to the One Minute Reviews blog run by the Literature Stack Exchange community.
2019-09-03: It’s time to stop using the term “Antisemitism”. Published to Medium.
2019-06-10: Imgur needs to decide what it wants to be when it grows up. Published to Medium.
2019-05-22: The death of a community: A tribute to the first site I was a part of on the internet. Published to Medium.
2019-04-04: Review: “Milkweed”, by Jerry Spinelli. Posted to the One Minute Reviews blog run by the Literature Stack Exchange community.
2019-03-10: “The School for Good and Evil”, by Soman Chainani. Posted to the One Minute Reviews blog run by the Literature Stack Exchange community.
2018
2018-12-29: I spent three months as a keyboard-only user. Here’s what I learned. Published to Medium.
2018-11-21: Why open source is important. Published to Medium as a task for the Google Code-In event.
2018-08-15: Review: Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Posted to the One Minute Reviews blog run by the Literature Stack Exchange community.
The world of Q&A
2024
2024-11-19: Moderator-run AI detection accuracy experiment: results. Blog post-ish; posted to Meta Stack Exchange.
2023
2023-12-07: Recent outages and site reliability improvements. Blog post; posted to the Codidact staff blog on Codidact Meta.
2023-11-15: How do I write an accessible Stack Exchange post? Posted to Meta Stack Exchange.
2023-08-02: Moderation strike: Results of negotiations. Posted to Meta Stack Exchange. Underwent review by others but was written by me.
2023-06-05: Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers. Posted to Meta Stack Exchange. Written largely by me, but underwent collaborative editing.
2023-06-04 (made public on 06-05): Dear Stack Exchange, Inc. Strike letter to Stack Exchange. Written largely by me, but underwent collaborative editing.
2023-05-31: Clarifying Codidact's position on AI-generated content. Blog post; posted to the Codidact staff blog on Codidact Meta.
2023-02-13: Contributor Spotlight: samcarter, Power [Users] Moderator. Blog post; posted to the Codidact staff blog on Codidact Meta.
2022
2022-12-21: Contributor Spotlight: Taeir, open-source dev. Blog post; posted to the Codidact staff blog on Codidact Meta.
2022-08-15: Contributor Spotlight: sau226, sysadmin. Blog post; posted to the Codidact staff blog on Codidact Meta.
2022-06-12: Contributor Spotlight: Moshi, Languages & Linguistics moderator. Blog post; posted to the Codidact staff blog on Codidact Meta.
2019
2019-07-29: Let's take a look at the interaction between staff and the "power users" of the network. Posted to Meta Stack Exchange.
Academia
2025
2025-02-10: If "A Man may make a Remark," then who may not? An analysis of Emily Dickinson’s poem 952. Written for a class.
2025-02-04: A different type of prejudice: The allegory concealed in Lydia Davis’s "The White Tribe". Written for a class.
2025-01-02: Spitting in the face of colonialism: The hidden messaging in Jamaica Kincaid’s "Girl". Written for a class.
2024
2024-11-27: Analysis of Raymond Carver’s "Popular Mechanics". Written for a class.
Other
2023
2023-07-05: I was interviewed by Zeit Online about the Stack Exchange moderator strike. (The article is in German. I don't speak German. I spoke to them in English and they translated.)
2023-06-13: I briefly spoke to The Verge about the Stack Exchange moderator strike.
2023-06-05: Vice ran an article quoting snippets of my writing.