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Tatum Hunter Tatum Hunter
Updated on September 29, 2020

How to Make Your Software More Trans-Inclusive

Four questions to ask about your app, website or data strategy.

Tatum Hunter Tatum Hunter
Updated on September 29, 2020

Terms Like ‘Slave’ and ‘Master’ Finally Have Their Reckoning. It’s a Start.

Their staying power speaks volumes about structural problems in the industry.

Stephen Gossett Stephen Gossett
Updated on September 18, 2020

Bad at Probability? Blame Human Psychology.

Mental shortcuts help us navigate the world. They also make us terrible at statistics.

Hal Koss Hal Koss
Updated on September 02, 2020

Could High School Internships Make Tech More Inclusive?

Chicago Tech Academy wants to build a pipeline to the city’s booming tech sector.

Stephen Gossett Stephen Gossett
Updated on September 02, 2020

Racial Equity in Data Integration: How to Exclude Racial Bias in Data

A new toolkit offers advice on how to center racial equity throughout the lifecycle of administrative data.

Stephen Gossett Stephen Gossett
Updated on August 31, 2020

Counteracting AI Bias

A panel discussion for a new documentary about facial recognition bias offers suggestions for ethical artificial intelligence.

Tatum Hunter Tatum Hunter
Updated on August 20, 2020

Early Evangelists of Agile Engineering Wouldn’t Mind Watching It Die

Agile often puts processes over people, and it’s pushing women engineers into non-technical roles. Time to move on?

Tatum Hunter Tatum Hunter
Updated on August 19, 2020

How Intuit Used Innersource to Overhaul Legacy Engineering Practices

Service-level agreements and unified GitHub workflows are helping Intuit engineers draw on internal code instead of reinventing the wheel.

Tammy Xu Tammy Xu
Updated on August 18, 2020

Why COBOL Has Stuck Around for All These Years

Organizations are reluctant to replace software that works. But finding devs to maintain it is getting harder and harder.