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For years in the middle of it, and then at . Exploring the data on gender and GitHub repo ownership. For several popular programming languages, this chart shows the gender breakdown of the owners of public GitHub repositories.

This blog mainly contains posts about Mozilla release engineering projects that I am working on and some personal insights. Tuesday, September 26, 2017. The final version will be out in November, however, you can start trying it right now and you will enjoy every browsing moment from here on.

Time for new projects at this time. My availability will be open again in July.

Quick and dirty prime counting. Composition of utility pole ID tags. Philadelphia sports fans behaving badly. The many faces of the Petersen graph. The rubber duck explains coherence spaces. The gods of Stackexchange karma are fickle. I forgot there are party conventions. Mon, 12 Mar 2018. Quick and dirty prime counting.

I like to climb things and look around. Where am I Now? As of Spring 2017 I live in San Francisco. The biking, conversations, and scent of Eucalyptus here are most wonderful! I currently work at the Internet Archive.

Zhorken, an artist, programmer, and massive Pokémon nerd from London, Ontario. You can check out all my Pokémon fanart at catseyemarble on Tumblr. And all my Pokémon-related programming projects at Zhorken on GitHub. Where I ramble about Pokémon. None of these things are actually entirely about Pokémon.