Lambda/Sierra

Video and links for my talk “Twelve Years of Component” at Clojure South and Clojure/conj 2025.

Inspired by Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), I have started keeping a written log of configuration changes I make to my home computers.

A small update to my TeX-style LGBTQ+ logotype, adjusting the placement of Q for better balance.

I was doodling in a notebook recently when it occurred to me that the letters of LGBTQ+ could be arranged similarly to the TeX logo.

Update to the previous post: We can't even agree on how to name things.

There’s been a quiet war going on for the past 20 years between DBAs and software developers.

WordPress.com is offering a 100-year plan.

A plea to technical writers: Please stop inventing abbreviations and acronyms without defining them.

Social media killed comments.

My experience as a backend programmer trying to write my own CSS by hand Read more …

On starting a new blog, abandoning the stability of WordPress for the creative freedom of do-it-yourself.

Clojure code to pull the AWS API documentation from the Cognitect AWS Client library and output Emacs Org Mode.

I’m Alessandra Sierra, and this is my website.