I recently wrote an article about the lack of women coders. Women programmers are almost as rare as unicorns. Take a peek into any developer meeting and you’ll most likely find one or two women surrounded by room full of men. It’s a subject that has been passionately investigated by many institutions and organizations, but…

ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966[1] at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum.[2] Created to demonstrate the superficiality of communication between man and machine, Eliza simulated conversation by using a ‘pattern matching’ and substitution methodology that gave users an illusion of understanding on the part…

Sweet Christmas, Code School is offering free online classes this weekend. Just create a new account if you haven’t got one already and get learning. Classes include but are not limited to: jQuery, Angular.js, Git, Ruby, Rails, Python, Google Maps for iOS, and SQL.

Susan Kelleher, staff writer for Pacific NW Magazine writes about the current state of extreme sexism in the gaming industry and gives a hopeful look towards the future. “Gaming culture has been pretty misogynistic for a long time now,” says Edwards, 50, a lifelong gamer and developer who worked on Microsoft’s Halo. “There’s ample evidence…

Thank you Apple! During the holidays, ask December 5th through 11th, Apple stores will be offering a Free Hour of Code Workshop. Cupertino, California — Apple today opened registration for Hour of Code workshops at all 487 Apple retail stores worldwide, from December 5 through 11 in celebration of Computer Science Education Week. Among the…

On Business2Community.com Carey Wodehouse writes about why SASS is an indispensable part of web developing. On her list of benefits to working with SASS are: Variables, less code, better responsive design, code snippets, more modularity and the power of nesting. Make your CSS even more modular—and easier to work with. The more complicated an app…

Over one decade after the Linux kernel abandoned BitKeeper as their source version control system and years after Git’s continued widespread adoption, BitKeeper has finally been made open-source. Read More on Phoronix.com

Tech Republic article by Alison DeNisco from October 20, 2016. Research released last month from CompTIA identified a lack of role models as one of the main factors discouraging girls from considering careers in tech. Only 37% of girls age 10-17 know of someone with an IT job, CompTIA found. Awareness is also a problem: Of girls…

A nice article by Creative Bloq on the best wireframing tools out there. On the Freebee list: Penultimate, Pencil, Mockflow, Framebox, Hot glue And don’t forget… pen and paper Wireframing tools There’s nothing quicker than grabbing a pen and paper Yes. An actual pen. And some real made-from-wood paper. Okay, so these don’t allow you…

I went with Signal Fire on a one week backpacking trip to the Lost Creek Wilderness in Colorado. We found the creek! 🙂 and it was beautiful.  

Today’s bug of the day “Eristalis Arbustorum.” Looks like a bee, is a great pollinator, but it only has two wings, so… it’s a fly! They are often called hover flies or drone flies. Thats a great way to tell the difference, there are a great many flies out there acting like bees. They are…

Julie Green (b. 1961 in Yokosuka, Japan) wanted to be a stewardess until age four, but became a painter instead. Green’s work has been featured in The New York Times, aWhole Foods mini-documentary, National Public Radio, Ceramics Monthly, Gastronomica, and 7th edition of A World of Art published by Prentice Hall. She has exhibited widely…

I made a website for Sean Barnes today. Check it out!

I was raised to believe that women could be “just as smart as men” if they really applied themselves. I was raised to believe that high maintenance women were not attractive, so I made sure never to ask for what I needed if I thought it might ruffle feathers. When yelled at, I cowered, when…

I wrote this last year on the Signal Fire trip to Northern Arizona in Speing 2015: The sun is going down and the vibrant sages and oranges of the canyon and brush are slowly changing to soothing greys.  It is so quiet here. I feel like my head is the loudest sound in this canyon.…