Last fall, I attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) and had a transformative experience. Over those two days of sessions and networking, I felt like I reconnected with every aspect of myself that has existed throughout … Continue reading
Over the past few days, I’ve been tipped off to an incident on the Planet Mozilla blog, an aggregator of the personal blogs of Mozilla community members. Mozillans can choose which entries make the feed and which don’t, but non-work-related … Continue reading
I feel so conflicted about Sheryl Sandberg. She’s speaking in the keynote at the 2011 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, which I’m happy to be attending this year. But I already have a pretty good idea of the … Continue reading
Note: While this post includes a recap of this year’s Open Source Bridge conference, it’s also heavily about gender-in-tech issues and negative experiences I’ve had outside of the context of this conference. I will be moderating comments as a result; … Continue reading
You need to read this, and here’s why: A lot of things have happened in the last month that have had common ties and with them a certain profundity. (I also have the tendency to see epiphanies and connections between … Continue reading
When I do my HTML and css work, I often have episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report streaming on my laptop. Typically the design has already been done for me, so putting it into code doesn’t require … Continue reading
This post is intended as a one-off that ties up some of the things I’ve been thinking about over the past week semi-nicely (although certainly not conclusively or totally coherently!). I thought I’d think it out loud for a few … Continue reading