Audrey E. @audrey@toot.cat

I mean, maybe a lot of the outward markers are improving! That would be great. I just need a couple of visual examples of the kinds of cues that tell people only men (white, cis, able-bodied) are welcome in tech.

Also for all the jokes about tech company team pages that are a bunch of white guys with a dog, I'm having a hard time digging up an actual example.

I'm looking for a recent example of a bro-y tech job ad, which is harder than it used to be so I think that's a good thing. But I did find one that says "[company] is founded on biblical principles and has biblically informed goals. Accordingly, the reputation of [company] and the character of our employees is of utmost importance."

I proposed an alternate version called "Fire Yourself: a radical solution to diversity in tech" which unfortunately did not get picked, but maybe that's what I do with the last third of this one

I decided that maybe watching the previous version of my talk would help (but I wish there was a direct transcript) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hU5NNOgEdQ

In a few days I’m giving a talk at RubyConf that’s an update of one I did in 2016. It’s been a lot harder to prepare than I thought, and writing the proposal back in July doesn’t help.
There’s a lot more written on the topic in the last two years, and I’ve also internalized most of what I learned and acted on it. My brain finds that combination pretty unexciting.
So what am I still trying to learn?

For this week's Recompiler Podcast we're going to be talking about learning and teaching technology. Listen in about 10 minutes at recompilermag.live

I turned off the unread count notification badge on my email app to see if it would help me focus on other things, but it's a little too weird to not have that info.

What's interesting in tech news this week? We're picking topics for the podcast.

I started to worry that I was dinking around on twitter instead of doing work, but searching for “startup about page with white guys and dog” is actually a thing I need to do today

So today's achievement is switching Calagator's specs from PhantomJS to Chrome headless (I hope I have the CI setup right this time) https://travis-ci.org/calagator/calagator

I don't think I realized how burned out I was on software development until I'd actually recovered, just this year. All sorts of things that seemed unreasonably hard are suddenly easy again. It feels really good to dive back in.

Yuri is the softest

Our mayor is telling everyone that six (6) different groups plan to protest tonight downtown “without a permit” but I haven’t seen anything confirm that. It seems like ridiculous fearmongering.