Wage gaps and hiring discrimination persist despite the fact that most large corporations have affirmative action and equal opportunity policies.

Many tech workers with ADHD don’t fit the stereotypes.

The high visibility of indie success stories creates the illusion that commercial success is accessible and achievable by all, disregarding the challenges most indie developers face.

Two ideas conspire to drive underrepresented groups from the field: the belief that innate ability and brilliance are required to succeed; and the belief that certain groups of people do not have that innate brilliance.

How did we become so invisible, irrecoverable stats in dreary headline after dreary headline? And what would be possible if we weren’t?

We are conditioned to reason about economic vulnerability in terms of individual merit, instead of as systemic failure.

Is it enough to be measured by the quality of our code alone?

Just send a pull request!!

In a way, you were the dream: someone who delivered high-quality work - or even perfection - without staying at the company long enough to get paid.

We need to question our “objective” and “technical” opinions about programming languages.