Loraine Kanervisto

Software engineer, writer

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Minimum Freakout Project: MVP Planning

Minimum Freakout Project: MVP Planning

While talking about tech projects, you might hear the acronym "MVP" thrown around, or minimum viable product. Think of it as the absolute bare minimum that you can squeak by with and call something "done" within a given time period. Keeping the MVP in mind was

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tech writing
5 years ago

Bookcision: How This Margin-Scribbler Copes with Borrowed Books

Writing notes on borrowed library books has always resulted in a disjointed mess of paper slips and smartphone scribbles. Once the library loan ends, then POOF, all of your notes and highlights disappear into the aether! How can you stop this? Well, Bookcision helps a lot if you’re using

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tech writing
6 years ago

Accidental OCR Glitch Art

We got a fancy new scanner that attempted to convert my awkward 2010 Denglish journal entries into machine-encoded text. This was the result. Next time I get stuck writing, maybe I’ll feed my notes through this thing for inspiration.

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tech writing
6 years ago

Storytelling at The Moth's HAUNTED Halloween Event

Last night, I participated in my first Moth event and told a story called “The Body on the Trail.” It was great fun, and I can’t wait to share more tales in the future!

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speaking writing
6 years ago

Chuck Palahniuk's Book Readings Are Like Rock Concerts

Most people know Chuck Palahniuk because of Fight Club, the novel that was adapted into a movie starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. On October 20, my sister and I attended Chuck Palahniuk’s Beautiful You book launch and got to hear some of his short stories. We’ve been

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writing
6 years ago
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