Junior Developer and kickass philomath genderqueer nerdy feminist spoonie. Advocate of gender diversity and equality, especially within tech.
I wake up, roll over, open my eyes. It’s still dark, what time is it? Oh, it’s 1am. Great.
I roll over and try and get back to sleep. OW. Shouldn’t have rolled onto that shoulder. I try and adjust position. OOOWWW. Definitely not that side.
In a strange way, I was lucky not to get diagnosed until ‘later’ in life (by which, I mean the grand old age of 35 ). It meant I had, without realising, become so accustomed to the myriad things wrong with me that a lot of the time I really didn’t notice them.
We’ve recently been turned on to the Danish concept of ‘hygge’. What it means, is “the [Danish] ritual of enjoying life’s simple pleasures. Friends. Family. Graciousness”.
Here’s a question — what can you tell about a person just by looking at them?
Can you tell their gender? Or their sexuality? What about their physical or mental health?
I’d wager the answer to all of these questions, if anyone were to stop and think about it…
Well. I knew that General Assembly’s ‘Web Development Immersive’ course would be intense, but there’s intense and there’s intense…
We spent the first day on a massive install-fest, getting our machines all up and running on the same programs so that we were…