I am a computer nerd who lives in suburban DC. I was an evangelical, but then I realized if I believed God is love, I couldn't be one any more. Two interests I have (other than my wife) are Thomas Merton and Python, in no particular order.
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Getting an abortion in Louisiana is already nearly impossible. Now, the state's list of conditions that qualify a pregnancy as "medically futile"—which ignores science and patients' lived experiences—will make it even harder. This is terrifying. Women will die. #VoteBlue
Computer programming is creating abstractions and then abstractions over those abstractions until you can accomplish something. Sometimes you are developing in a place where you have abstractions available to you (Python), sometimes you don't (C)