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Photo of a peapod, cracked open to show numerous brightly-colored peas: pink, orange, blue among the green peas.
Issue 23 by Livio De La Cruz on June 30th, 2015
If you’re someone who identifies strongly with the techie stereotype, then all of these myths about the tech industry and its predictable culture make it sound like a promised land that was built just for you.
The stages of a butterfly from chrysalis to newly hatched.
Issue 23 by Betsy Haibel on June 30th, 2015
New programming language communities are “graded” on how cutting-edge they are: our pattern-matching capabilities associate white men with the cutting edge, especially if they’re talking about monads.
Railroad tracks.
Issue 19 by Brian Kung on April 6th, 2015
Cultural appropriations perpetuate stereotypes, disrespect and exploit Asian culture, and reflect an industry-wide disdain for Asian people and culture.
Typewriter with the keys replaced by emoji buttons.
Issue 18 by Aditya Mukerjee on March 17th, 2015
We can’t ignore the composition of the Unicode Consortium’s members, directors, and officers -- the people who define the everyday writing systems of all languages across the globe.
Lego figure of Grace Hopper.
Programming by Jean Yang & Ari Rabkin on January 20th, 2015
We need to question our “objective” and “technical” opinions about programming languages.