Lambda/Sierra
The personal website of Alessandra Sierra.
Recent Posts
Versus
On the quiet war between DBAs and software developers …
Update March 24, 2024: We can’t even agree on how to name things.
You Bet Your Life
WordPress.com is offering a 100-year plan. But why?
Stop Abbreviating!
A plea to technical writers: Please stop inventing abbreviations and acronyms without defining them.
One-Way Comments?
Social media killed comments. What’s a lonely blogger to do?
(Re-)Learning CSS as a Backend Dev
My experiences trying to write my own CSS by hand for this blog.
Building Foundations
On starting a new blog, abandoning the stability of WordPress for the creative freedom of do-it-yourself.
AWS API in Org Mode with Clojure
Clojure code to pull the AWS API documentation from the Cognitect AWS Client library and output Emacs Org Mode.
Hello, world!
I’m Alessandra Sierra, and this is my website. It’s a bit of a work in progress, as am I.