Game the system, change the system
The other night, I gave a Women Who Code Lightning Talk on some of the disadvantages women have in the workplace, and some ways around them and ways to change them. Here it is:
Thoughts on women in tech
My blog has been neglected because I’ve been so busy running the Women’s Javascript Study Group and doing related networking. O’Reilly wants to give us books! Women 2.0 wants to help out! And Women Who Code is going to be our parent group! This feel-good buzz around women in tech …
Yay for women in tech!
With Zoosk’s support, my colleague Kristin & I are starting a Women’s Javascript Study Group. I blogged about it on Zoosk’s Engineering …
(word break opportunity) is better than zero-width space (HTML entity #8203)
….At least that’s what I concluded, and blogged about it on the Zoosk Engineering blog. I welcome any additional info or debate …
On Plumbers & Persuading Stakeholders
Just spent a few amazing days at An Event Apart Austin. I got into many fun conversations, but I got to thinking …
CSS3 iPhone-y toggle
In order to have an iOS-style toggle that scales nicely, I used a simple media query and a CSS3 widget for my …
Quick test: button vs input on mobile
I searched the internet for whether the button tag would cause the virtual keyboard to show “Go” like an input type=submit, and …
Automatic Thought Record Quiz
My motivation for hacking together this Javascript quiz was to be able to create an interactive version of a mental health tool …
Multi-step Javascript quiz/survey with summary page
I have now hacked together my quiz. The code is no thing of beauty, but it works — and that’s exciting. I …
Faking it until I make it [right]
I started reading Eloquent Javascript, which seems like a very well-written tutorial with a lot of programming fundamentals…. but I got frustrated …