Time to think equitable. — One of the things that struck me in such a difficult and raw way when my colleagues started reaching out from all over the world in June was how surprised I was that things that I experienced at Blizzard could possibly be happening at Apple. I thought of the company…

(Thanks to the Twitch moderator known as Uncleswagg.) Twitch has quickly become a household name after its acquisition by Amazon. You can watch strangers livestream just about anything these days, working out, body painting; you can…

It’ll only cost me $299.99 a month to stop you. — Content warning: sexual trauma and suicide. 2005 was not the first rough year I’d had. I’d experienced sexual…

The dark side of whistleblowing — Update (1/7/2022): I’m pleased to announce I’ve accepted a position with the non-profit Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. I have a history with the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research center, their partner, and I feel like taking the pay cut to go into truly mission-driven work was the best place for me. Update (3/4/2022): I’ve been…

When I set out to collect the stories from my current and former colleagues, I had one goal in mind. Help all of these unheard voices find the right place to seek recourse for what happened to them. The most important thing I’ve done in my life, short of raising…

On Robert ‘Uncle Bob’ Martin, John Sonmez, and Charles Max Wood of the Devchat platform — Influencing an audience Many of us have a large audience that none of us are trained to know how to handle or even truly grapple with the reach of those platforms we’ve built in the cyber world. People abhor the word influencer, because it sounds manipulative. But if we’re honest, we do influence…

Listen to https://gitcutepodcast.com/ Transcripts for https://anchor.fm/cher-dot-dev/episodes/Git-Real--Stop-Cherry-Picking-e56d0a Hi. So it’s been a rough couple of weeks and today is certainly no break. So I have several things that I wanted to talk about and the way that I usually do this is in a Twitter thread, but the dicey thing about…

Stop being an asshole. const stops you, or anyone else on your fucking team, from reassigning a variable that should remain constant. It doesn’t suggest immutability, and it was never about immutability. There were other additions to the spec that gave us immutability. If you want a variable declaration that…