Published inDebugging Diversity·Jun 11, 2020Debugging Diversity DocuseriesIn 2014, I started filming what I thought would be a short Youtube video. 6 years, 55 interviews, 145 hours, and 6.5TB (yes, Terabytes) of footage later, the Debugging Diversity project has become so much more than I ever could have imagined. The reasons this project has taken (and continues…Diversity2 min readDiversity2 min read
Published inDebugging Diversity·Jul 20, 2019Wait…why is a white dude making a film about gender diversity in tech?Since working on Debugging Diversity I’ve often been asked why I decided to embark on the project. While most are supportive, many women have told me that their first response to Debugging Diversity is confusion; others frustration or even anger. These reactions are completely understandable and in this post, I…Women In Tech6 min readWomen In Tech6 min read
Published inDebugging Diversity·Jun 16, 2019Our Indiegogo Campaign Starts TodayAfter over 4 years of research and filming, we are excited to launch our Indiegogo fundraising campaign today. The campaign will run from June 17th through to August 3rd in which time we hope to raise $24,000 (AUD). We are thrilled to be launching our campaign on Indiegogo. While we…Crowdfunding2 min readCrowdfunding2 min read
Published inDebugging Diversity·Jun 13, 2019Why does diversity in tech need “debugging”?I’m a software engineer — or what many refer to as a coder, developer or just a “dev”. In my almost 20 years working in the industry, I’ve have often wondered why engineers and coders tend to be white men. In 2014, having developed an interest in film-making, I decided…Diversity4 min readDiversity4 min read
Published inWe’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Feb 20, 2019Member-onlyHow to prioritize what you learn by creating a topic backlogLessons from 25 years of coding — Way back in 1994, I started learning how to code. I look back on those early days of experimentation with great fondness. My journey kicked off after a friend of mine showed me a program he’d written in QBASIC on his IBM 386 PC. …Programming9 min readProgramming9 min read
Jan 15, 2019The Coder’s RoleNon-coders might be forgiven for not truly understanding what a software developer does exactly — from the outside looking in it probably looks like black magic trickery combined with a scene from The Matrix. However, after 15 years running software teams, I’m still surprised by how many developers themselves don’t…Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
Published inExpert360 Engineering·Jan 7, 2019Why you should stop making developer candidates do testsIf you’re a developer with a job, you’ve probably done a coding test but the take home test isn’t as valuable as you think. I remember interviewing with a company in the US (I live in Sydney, Australia) a number of years ago who gave me a coding challenge. As…Recruiting5 min readRecruiting5 min read
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Published inExpert360 Engineering·Mar 24, 2018The curly thing about “Full-Stack”I’ve been coding for a pretty long time. Since 1994 if you include the early Q-BASIC programs I wrote as a teenager. I’ve always believed that if there were important gaps in my knowledge I could work to fill them pretty quickly. …Web Development3 min readWeb Development3 min read
Published inExpert360 Engineering·Mar 20, 2018Currying functions in ElixirToday I realised that you can curry functions in Elixir and it kind of rocked my world. A powerful but not widely known feature of languages like Ruby, JavaScript (and many others!) is the ability to define a new function as the partially called version of another function. And somehow…Functional Programming2 min readFunctional Programming2 min read
