About Lydia

I spent the past decade as a software and DevOps engineer working on data-related technologies at places like MongoDB and Codecademy. I’m also the owner of Pen Loop Studio, a web design firm that helps municipalities build websites in WordPress.

In my free time, I builds apps – Too Phishy, my most recent, recently made the Google Workspace Top Rated – and run this blog (which has made the front page of Hacker News multiple time). Outside of work, I read celebrity memoirs and go on long bike rides with my family.

Acknowledgements

I'd like to thank Margaret Traylor for convincing me that my opinions would be interesting to people and for giving me the courage to start this blog. (And also for editing every post I've written.)

I'd also like to thank Mary Altonji, Claire Stepanek, Christoph Ding, and Sara Rose Gallagher for their constant advice and many, many edits.

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