The Closing Window
A twenty-year study of Ravelry knitting designers, measuring how much the odds of building an audience depended on the year you happened to…
Research & Data Storytelling · 2026
View project →Hi, I'm Becca.
I'm a software engineer, writer, and researcher. I write to help people in tech feel seen.
I spent the last decade building software and leading the people who make it. Along the way, I started asking why some people's work turns into recognition and opportunity while someone else's disappears—and why so many problems at work feel intensely personal when they're actually remarkably common.
Now I use data, research, and the experiences of people in tech to figure out what's really going on.
Projects
A collection of software projects, visualizations, illustrations, and other experiments. Some were built for work, some for fun, and some simply because I wanted to understand how something worked.
The Language of Work
A computational study of how tech companies describe themselves as employers—and what a quarter century of careers-page language reveals…
Research & Data Storytelling · 2026
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Hive-ly
Building tools that help workers document workplace issues, understand their rights, and connect with advocates.
Platform & Advocacy Tech · 2026
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Living Hive
An experiment in mapping workplace stories into an interactive hive of related experiences, using AI embeddings to reveal recurring…
Data Visualization · 2025
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Featured Essays
Essays from Performance Anxiety, an ongoing writing project about technology, work, community, care, and the systems that shape ordinary life.
Who Gets to Be the Hero?
On heroes, housework, and the labor no one sees
Resilience Is a Systems Problem
Why grit isn't enough
Speaking & Technical Writing
Conference talks, podcast appearances, and technical writing on frontend engineering, data visualization, developer experience, and the craft of building software.
Design Systems for Data Visualization
Seattle Design Systems · Seattle, WA
Adventures with Victory and Canvas
Formidable Blog
The State of React State in 2019
React Conf · Las Vegas, NV
Work With Me
Available for speaking engagements, technical writing, developer education, podcast appearances, and selective consulting opportunities.
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