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Tech Freedom vs Feminism

The organisations who are doing internet freedom work are also the ones who are idolising and absolving the various hateful actions of men. It all adds up to build a pattern of anti-women rhetoric and it’s certainly one that makes me feel absolutely unwelcome. Jem Yoshioka – On the Left

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That Dragon, Cancer

Signed up with Kickstarter to back That Dragon, Cancer. Help it pass the goal.

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BrowserStack hack

A BrowserStack email apparently sent to all users makes it abundantly clear they have been hacked or have a very disgruntled member of staff. Possibly both. The Internet as a whole is asking if this is true, BrowserStack is currently showing a maintenance page. The question people should be asking is “should I cancel my […]

General

The Other Side of Diversity — Erica Joy

The Other Side of Diversity by Erica Joy, a must read and condemnation of the tech industry.

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Domain jealousy

I feel slightly jealous of people who own their dot com. Mine’s (!) in legitimate use so I’d feel rude sending an email offering to buy it. I snapped up peterwilson.com.au when it lapsed earlier this year. Some email and web traffic suggests the previous owner has noticed yet. Dot ccs are cool.

Quick Notes

There’s a bunch of us going to Alcatraz at 10.30am Friday if you’re going to #wcsf and want to come along. #wcsf14

There’s a bunch of us going to Alcatraz at 10.30am Friday if you’re going to #wcsf and want to come along. #wcsf14

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Oops, think I broke posting of photos. Oh well.

Oops, think I broke posting of photos. Oh well.

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Going indieweb

I’ve started the process of going indieweb. To begin with, I’ll be focusing on siloed posts relating to blog posts on my site. Brid.gy will be used to bring in favourites, replies and retweets via web mentions. Facebook likes may make it in at some stage.

General

Conference Codes of Conduct

Before I begin, I have to say I think codes of conduct are a good thing, an essential element of a well run conference. In fact, I’d go as far to say not having a code of conduct is to neglect your duties as a conference organiser. I know a few people who have organised […]

Opinion

IE friendly console.log

Internet Explorer makes me sad every time I open it to cross-browser test during development and it crashes on console.log. A simple check OR define option can kill console in the IE developer toolbar, so I decided to write a more robust cross-browser compatible console.log.

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