Tag: Alluring

For the last five years, I’ve researched, written about, and wondered about Ah Toy, the first Chinese brothel madam in San Francisco. She arrived in 1849 from China, lured by the news of gold and risking everything for a new life. Then her husband, with whom she was traveling, died. She was on...

Back in the day, I remember my fingers furiously typing away, wrestling with a massive, sprawling codebase. It was the era of the monoliths, when code, much like castles of old, was built stone by stone into a towering entity of impressive complexity. Fast forward a few years, and the buzzword on...