A WordPress plugin inspired by my favorite article of 2012
One of the more interesting articles I read in 2012 was Jessamyn Smith’s What she really said: Fighting sexist jokes the geeky way! @ GeekFeminism.org. I really connected with this article because, for...
View ArticleBlack Mirror Series 2 Part 2 Review: Artificial Stupidity, It’s More Powerful...
“The idea to make make everything disappear so that you can just be in things and you can be in the interface” - Paola Antonelli, Senior curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the...
View Article#Ladieslearningcode Comes to Montreal!
I learned about #ladieslearningcode a few years ago through Systers and I finally got an opportunity to participate this weekend at the first #ladieslearningcode event in Montreal. Since re-branding...
View ArticleI discover an Easter Egg as I ask Matt: “In your opinion, what is the most...
WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg answers my question at WordCamp.
View ArticleFacial recognition comes full circle: Facebook now asks you to tag your...
Today Facebook asked me to tag a friend in a post (UFC #3 lightweight fighter Gray Maynard) so I wrote about it… Then it asked me to tag Gray again!! Here’s what happened. If you are not too sure about...
View ArticleSo you don’t know how to program; whoopty doo!
I work with brilliant people and they often announce that they can’t program, as if that’s a bad thing. It seems that we developers come off as some kind of mysterious creature that can accomplish...
View ArticleHow to change your job every 3 months…
Both my parents worked at a job they apparently hated for most of their career. My dad was a top researcher at Defence Canada for many years when I was a toddler but developed a new college-level class...
View ArticleAn open letter (and a question) for Donald Trump, candidate for the...
Hello Mr. Trump, It has come to my attention that you are running, again, for the presidency of the United States, the greatest country on Earth because it says so. My name is Marie-Lynn Richard. I am...
View ArticleThe Neverending Uphill Battle of Web Security and How our Leaders are...
First of all, let me preface this by saying that there are worst things in the world than insecure websites. In fact, our entire infrastructure of public services is a much greater target for cracking...
View ArticleAda Lovelace and Mark Twain explain something that is important for all...
Programmers can be like mechanics sometimes. I mean, the easiest way to give yourself an advantage off the start is to decry the ineptitude of the previous person who worked on a project. When I hear...
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