Links: Technical difficulties

[sonia]

My Washing Machine Refreshed My Thinking on Software Effort Estimation by Chris Horsely via andrewducker. It seems like any unfamiliar house project requires at least three trips to the hardware store. This one was harder than that.

Survival Tips For Women In Tech Who else is the only woman on their dev team? by Patricia Aas, Sep 6, 2018. Even though my most recent negative work experience was with a bunch of women, these tips still resonate. Sadly, women can also be sexist to women senior engineers.

6) Try to convince yourself when you begin to doubt yourself: “It’s not me, it’s them”
Gaslighting (look it up) and self-doubt are powerful things. You might have people tell you to change, that it’s not about you being a woman, it’s about you being: less capable, less likable, less friendly, less … something that makes this all your fault. Try not to believe it.

Don't Write Code That Hurts People by Carlana, quoting Bill Sourour, Nov 17, 2016.

As developers, we are often one of the last lines of defense against potentially dangerous and unethical practices.

Comments

[altamira16]

The Survival Tips for Women in Tech was excellent.

[sonia]

Yeah, the tech industry shouldn’t be like this, but since it is, the article really nails it. Glad/sorry it’s useful to you!

[silveradept]

Despite several of these having been in existence for years, they're still relevant to the present day. Unfortunately.

The piece about the washing machine makes a certain amount of sense to me, though, when it comes to problem-solving, because you often run into those problems that you didn't have to think about before, or that you thought you had a solution and that the solution doesn't quite work properly.

[sonia]

Those unknown unknowns that come around to bite us, even when we think we know.

I agree, unfortunately relevant!