Sterbin Software

Reha is a second-generation programmer: her mother, a senior programmer for International Paper, has been in the business since they did away with punchcards. The first family computer was an IBM 386, on which Reha learned BASIC and wrote an adaption of Hamlet, which has thankfully been lost.

She attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied biochemistry and English before re-discovering computer science. She remains grateful to her friends in the Science and Technology Wing who convinced her to take her first programming class.

She learned HTML one weekend in 1999 in order to build a small personal website (with frames, even!), and web technologies have been part of her life ever since. She supported Netscape in the browser wars, transitioned happily from frames to tables to CSS, and continues to be a vocal proponent of web standards.

She lives and works in Astoria, but she also enjoys taking her work to the New York Public Library, or on especially nice days, Bryant Park.

Her fiance works as a system administrator (and provides her with hosting for this site), and her two cats put in a hard day's work napping on the windowsill. When she's not programming, Reha enjoys digital art, takes Egyptian dance and yoga classes, and is an altar server at Saint Mary the Virgin.

Her more-or-less daily reading list includes A List Apart, Feministe, and xkcd. Her favorite podcasts include PHP Abstract, Democracy Now, and This American Life.