Valerie Aurora
Hi, I am Valerie Anita Aurora, systems programmer, writer, and cat appreciator. In my previous lives, I taught ally skills, supported women in open technology and culture, and wrote Linux kernel and file systems code.
Tech stuff
Debugging satellites, nuclear explosions, and giant space lasers My favorite operating systems debugging stories The Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf series Linux Weekly News articles The "rainbow chart" of cryptographic hash function lifetimes The ultimate physical limits of computation My visit to the Honeywell Kitchen ComputerAdvocacy
The Al Capone Theory of Sexual Harassment No more rock stars: how to stop abuse in tech communities Rebooting the Ada Lovelace Mythos DEFCON: Why conference harassment matters HOWTO therapy: what psychotherapy is, how to find a therapist, and when to fire your therapistSelected press
Ada Lovelace in the New Yorker, 2013 Google adopts ally skills training in USA Today, 2015 Why men should fight sexism in The Guardian, 2016 Discrimination against women in tech in the New Yorker, 2017 Implementing the Paradox of Tolerance in tech in Boing Boing, 2018 Linux kernel culture in the New Yorker, 2018Contact info