Kyle ThayerSocial Media, Ethics, and Automation (we wrote a textbook!)Along with most people in my college dorms, I was excited to join Facebook as soon as they opened it up to my university. I had been using…Dec 18, 2023Dec 18, 2023
Kyle ThayerinBits and BehaviorThree types of knowledge developers need when using APIsAs a programmer, I’ve used and struggled with the APIs of many code libraries and frameworks: from data visualization (d3.js, ggplot2) to…Dec 11, 2020Dec 11, 2020
Kyle ThayerinHCI & Design at UWThere Is No “Blue” in KoreanDifferent Languages Have Different ColorsMay 20, 20191May 20, 20191
Kyle ThayerinBits and BehaviorMeasuring Values and CultureWhile working on my last project, I learned about how scientists try to measure culture. Culture, of course, is an incredible complicated…Dec 21, 2018Dec 21, 2018
Kyle ThayerinBits and BehaviorHow Culture Influences DebuggingWhen I moved to Peru a decade ago, I began to notice how much of the computer programming world was centered in the US (and within the US…Oct 8, 20181Oct 8, 20181
Kyle ThayerinBits and BehaviorCoding Bootcamps: Women Overcoming IntimidationHow do the motivations of women who attend coding bootcamps differ from the motivations of women who attend undergraduate computer science…Aug 11, 2018Aug 11, 2018
Kyle ThayerinBits and BehaviorCoding Bootcamps vs. Computer Science Degrees: What Employers Want and Other PerspectivesEmployer ViewsMar 2, 20181Mar 2, 20181
Kyle ThayerinBits and BehaviorWhat I Learned From Researching Coding BootcampsA year and a half ago, my wife, Kristen, was an English teacher. Now she is a full-time software engineer at Microsoft. I followed her…Jun 29, 201711Jun 29, 201711