Palo Alto, CA USA

Reflections on a career trying to make software systems work together for users, across competing companies and standards bodies.

Austin, TX

How hacking computers led to hacking biological systems, including her own body.

Lakewood, CO USA

In the American West, quilts represent an ongoing tradition of women's lives, their skill, and their love.

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

The practice of collective savings and lending takes many forms, from women-led community finance to mobile-money software.

Wellington, NZ

Constructed languages, or conlangs, are the basis of a hobby, a science, and a community that now occupies a small corner of the entertainment industry.

Chicago, USA

After widespread resistance to codes of conduct in open-source software communities, Coraline Ada Ehmke's Contributor Covenant became the most popular code of conduct in the ecosystem.