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Coming from the one country that exclusively uses the imperial system, there’s a lot I take for granted about the way I measure things. In metric, 1.1 kg would make perfect sense, but in the imperial system, 1.1 lbs may look fine but how do you weigh that out. I’m someone with a lot of…

When I started this project, I viewed it as a straight-forward logic puzzle. I was tasked with creating a system for unit conversion within Gnome Recipes. This is of course math, a subject with which humans and computers find a lot of agreement, and a task in which computers excel (no pun intended). But a…

I’ve been accepted as an intern for Gnome’s outreachy internship program!  I’ll be working on a project called Gnome Recipes.  I’m excited because it’s the perfect way to combine my two passions, cooking and coding.  In fact I’ve already made 3 published additions to its codebase.  For the internship I’ll specifically be looking at the…