I have watched, read, written and took part in the great resignation (joining a new company 6 months ago remotely, only seeing my new colleagues in person for the first time last week. The software development world has changed and overall developers have benefited. Software development has increased, demand for developers has gone up and developers have moved more for better jobs. What happens...

PEORIA, AZ — The San Diego Padres announced today they have extended Major League Spring Training invitations to 24 players. Among those 24 players are 10 minor league free agents that will be new to the organization, including infielders CJ Hinojosa and Domingo Leyba, outfielders Jose Azocar, Luis Liberato, Nomar Mazara, Thomas Milone and Trayce...

The most interesting segment of Apple’s March 8 Event dealt with the M1 Ultra chips — plural intended and explained below. Today, we’ll focus on what this latest member of the M1 family means, on what it portends for future Apple products. A brief history: the M1 chip was announced at Apple’s June 2020 WWDC (it’s yearly developers’ conference) with an overall...

thought I was going to stay at Netflix forever. Top of market pay. Freedom and responsibility. Unlimited PTO. What more could you ask for? So when I quit Netflix in May 2021, everyone thought I was crazy. My parents objected first. Coming from cultural revolution China where they barely had enough food to eat, they thought I was throwing away all the hard work they went through to come to...

“Don’t let your disability define you.” I’ve lived almost 20 years as a disabled woman. Though I didn’t take my first steps until the age of 5, I’ve had no choice but to grow up in a hyper condensed amount of time. I’ve been forever bonded to the multitudes disabled life contains — the beautiful and the ugly. I’m not shocked by others’...

In 2015, photographer Massimo Sestini documented refugees leaving their homelands for safety as they crossed the Mediterranean, hoping to seek asylum in Europe. Sestini’s photographs were well praised and won several awards, but Sestini, as well as many others, recognized that the images do not properly recognize the personhood of the migrants on board the ships. Sestini’s most famous...

The other day, I finally decided to have a free session to discuss my new book, Making Numbers Count, with readers. It was small and very informal — a group of people discussing numbers, asking about different ways to present data at work. Twenty minutes in, a woman, Lauren asked a question about an upcoming presentation. “I only have one slide, but I have oodles of data. How do I...

Let me paint a picture of what e-learning days in my house look like. We found out last night that this will be an e-learning day because of cold weather. So this morning, the kids are on their second breakfast by 9 am and they’re keyed up and itching to get started. By now they’ve caught on to the fact that e-learning actually means they’ll have a very small amount of work and...

I have seen many of my friends are jealous of my profession. I also believe programming is a better profession than most other professions. Though it's my personal opinion, most of my programmer friends and colleague agree with me. There is a famous quote about life: The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side When someone is not satisfied with their own life, they always assume better...

While working at a fairly evolved digital organization, my colleagues developed a customized bot within the business messaging app, Slack. Most people who use Slack for communication know you can utilize bots inside the application to set reminders, schedule meetings, or even make jokes. Our team, however, decided to explore how we could use an automated bot to encourage more inclusive language....