About

Hi! I’m Maddy :)

I’m an autistic and trans almost-30-year-old that really likes computers, media, and having loud opinions. Contrary to what buffoons like RFK Jr. would have you believe: I pay taxes, I use the restroom unassisted, I have a full-time job, and there is a massive amount of love in my life, despite the ceaseless horrors.

More seriously: I grew up in the Midwest, got my BS/MS in computer science on the East coast, and now live and work on the West coast. I work in a variety of areas (cryptography, systems, formal methods/verification, UI/UX), but these days I’m mostly interested in figuring out what it means to do ‘good’ and ‘principled’ software engineering.

Outside of my special interest, I spend copious amounts of my free time watching TV/movies and playing video games – activities I simply didn’t have time for while growing up.

I haven’t fully decided what I’m going to use this site for – I stopped being reliable enough to maintain a truly regular blog years ago, but the appeal of doing that has never really gone away. I also have longer-term and more permanent forms of writing I would like to do, especially as far as educational computer science/mathematics materials are concerned.

Who knows – I may also write about personal projects, since I’m starting to get into the habit of working on those again.

Thanks for being here on my little corner of the Internet! I post on Bluesky (mostly gushy trans lesbian things), and I’d like to start streaming regularly on Twitch again at some point in the near future, if you want to follow me there.