I'm Carolyn Stransky. I'm a journalist and software engineer based in Berlin. I'm also a conference speaker and technical writer.
Featured work
FAWCO's Inspiring Women Magazine
Googling my way from journalism to engineering and back
How I used a search engine to find friends and change careers in a new city.
Autostraddle
New Babe, New Strap
A personal essay on buying a new strap-on, written for their Strap Week series.
Blog post
Creating a digital CV in Markdown on GitHub
How to build and host a digital CV using GitHub Pages and a README.md file.
Blog post
AMA: Researching Butt Plugs
I spent a lockdown weekend researching butt plugs. Here's what people asked about it.
Reference
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for graphql.org
As part of Google Season of Docs, I worked with the GraphQL Foundation to create an FAQ resource.
Get to know me
Majority of the week, I'm a frontend engineer focused on accessibility, design, and documentation. Beyond that, I'm a freelance journalist and editor. I'm currently the Acting Editor of Future of Sex with other recent bylines in Autostraddle, Silicon Allee, Curve Magazine, and elsewhere. Outside of work, I still try to keep a regular skincare routine and find time to binge Terrace House.
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