Writing

Occasional thoughts on technology, food, cities, and whatever else is on my mind.

• Beans, Beans, the Magical Fruit...

  April 26, 2025

  Why beans are my one true love, plus an Instant Pot method and three recipes.

• SF Voter Guide 2024

  October 15, 2024

  A voter guide for San Francisco's November 2024 election, co-written with a friend and widely distributed.

• A Meal Plan Fit For a Queen!

  June 24, 2024

  Three recipes designed to feed two people using overlapping ingredients, plus a grocery list.

• Pantry Staples to Build Your Dream Kitchen

  February 10, 2023

  The inaugural post — my pantry staples and what this newsletter is about.

• Firefox IonMonkey Bounds Check Elimination Exploit

  December 15, 2020

  For our final project in CS 378H Network Security, we exploited a 2016 Spidermonkey bug with no previous proof-of-concept.

• Pac-it-up: Police PAC Campaign Spending in Texas

  June 15, 2020

  In response to racial injustice and national protests, we built a tool to help people engage with police accountability.

• Legal Text Classification with NLP

  May 15, 2020

  Exploring ways to make state-of-the-art NLP conventions more performant on legal text classification.

• CTRL-Zine: Civic Tech for Students

  November 15, 2019

  A mini magazine about contemporary civic tech issues affecting students, created by the Texas Civic Tech Project.