Posts tagged “tech culture”

I proposed the "Techdel test" as a joke, it went viral, and now I feel like a fraud. npm is trying hard on diversity but still gets it wrong constantly. Bias is everywhere and nearly impossible to fully correct for. All I can honestly claim is: we give a shit, and we keep trying.

Arrington says Silicon Valley is a pure meritocracy where gender doesn't matter. He's wrong. Men don't take women in tech seriously by default, and that bias, multiplied across thousands of daily interactions, is exactly why so few women are here. That's on us, not them.

Found my go-to SF club: DNA Lounge, run by a retired Netscape programmer who does it for love, not money. Perfect venue, great crowd dressed like extras from Hackers. Someone stole a tiny flashlight off my keyring but left my iPod. Small price for a brilliant night.

Quick life updates: found an indie club (Popscene), got a new bed, loving the SF sunshine and omnipresent hippies. Futurama refs aren't geeky enough here. Yahoo Widgets 4 launches Wednesday. Also bought a massive brushed aluminium computer. Giant monitors next month.

Blogging from Yahoo's wifi bus on route 280, past a lake with birds. This is nothing like the Northern line.

I found the cute geek from Apple's Switch ads. His name is Jeremiah Cohick, and I'm convinced he's gay. He emailed to deny it, but I'm skeptical. Awkwardly, he may still be reading this.

VW's bringing back the camper van with DVD players and auto shift, but it needs to look more like the original to recapture Beetle-style success. Also: caffeine may cure skin cancer, you can arm-wrestle Freud, and one link is just... eeeeeeew.

The genes that make great engineers also cause autism, and in Silicon Valley, mildly autistic programmers are meeting, marrying, and concentrating those genes in their children. The result: sharply rising rates of Asperger's. More on this soon.