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.

Punishing and irrelevant interview processes seek to produce disciplined high-tech employees, jumping through arbitrary hoops at the whims of employers.

Configuring tools as a mode of straightforward escape from oppression, be it poverty or unfulfilling work, risks ignoring existing material practices and organizations that hold us to systems of inequity.

Confronting the darkness that lies with anonymity as a defining factor of online spaces.

Wide accessibility must become a part of everything we do in the tech industry, and our events are a critical part of that mission.

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

Startups need to stop working in silos, engaging doctors, health care administrators, communities and other system players.

American technology culture is reflective and a result of American systemic racism and sexism.

I have never met another person who is deaf at a hearing tech conference. I regularly see uncaptioned video tutorials for open source libraries and transcript-less tech podcasts. I stopped going to tech meetups. Without any representation in tech, I grew up a token.

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