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is it me or are we going backward? February 23, 2012

Maybe it’s just me, but it feels like lately diversity is falling out of fashion as a goal in this industry. I made a tweet seeking sponsors for All-Girl Hack Night’s SXSW event earlier and was surprised by some of the responses. It seems like recent conferences have fewer female speakers, or are more defensive [...]

the $150k solution December 11, 2011

An article was published yesterday in one of Austin’s local papers about Austin’s tech talent shortage. I was job hunting just a couple months ago and get a lot of calls from recruiters and hear about friends’ companies who are hiring and I think it’s pretty damned accurate. And by accurate I mean that it [...]

“girl” power November 16, 2011

I just watched a short video called How to Get More Women in Tech in Under a Minute. The speaker, Caroline Drucker, is making a point about the toxicity of the word “girl” and how it hurts the cause of women in technology. Her argument is that every time we refer to ourselves as girls, [...]

calling the github API with node.js September 4, 2011

Updated: when I originally posted this, I wasn’t able to connect to the github v3 API. That’s fixed now, and several pieces of code are different as a result. Namely: removed http.createClient() – that’s deprecated, oops require the https module save the oauth token in the session completely change the way the API gets called [...]

widgets for third-party sites July 4, 2011

For the past couple weeks or so I’ve been driving myself crazy researching the ways people are developing widgets to run on other people’s sites. I’ve been writing and rewriting the same piece of JavaScript on the daily as I find new information or start to doubt the information I’d decided previously was The Right [...]

no country for old hackers July 2, 2011

This was actually a presentation that I was hoping to submit to a conference I really wanted to speak at. The reason I didn’t ultimately submit anything is the same as the topic of the presentation/post, in part. How’s that for meta? And since I’ve been thinking of it as a presentation, I’m just going [...]

separation of concerns is a bunch of bull June 25, 2011

A couple days ago I was booking myself some air travel. I finished filling out all the forms and submitted my payment info and finally it dropped me on the confirmation page. The confirmation itself was tiny, and the rest of the page was taken up by hotel offers, several of which were stupid expensive [...]

nested callbacks in jquery begone!! June 2, 2011

A week or two ago I noticed a bunch of people having trouble because of their nested callbacks, or with flow control in general, in jQuery. I said something about this on twitter, saying people should use jQuery’s Deferred object, and several people commented that Deferred is a really difficult concept to explain. I kind [...]

things that actually matter May 8, 2011

I had just gotten some very relevant facts about this and was about to update with corrections, when Alex Sexton posted his comment below. Please scroll down and read that before taking this without a giant grain of salt. I definitely jumped to some incorrect conclusions, and he’s got the real story down in the [...]

keyboards April 4, 2011

When I was in college, I worked in the computer lab. One of the very first things they told us during training is perhaps the best thing I’ve ever learned in my entire career working with computers: never touch someone else’s keyboard. It doesn’t matter if the keyboard involved is actually yours, and someone else [...]

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