ciphercharly

Technology & society/politics/economics

Distributed Blackness - African American Cybercultures
André Brock (2020)
https://nyupress.org/9781479829965/distributed-blackness/

Black Software - The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
Charlton D. McIlwain (2019)
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/black-software-9780190863845?cc=us&lang=en&

notwaldorf

Someone sent me an email asking me what advice I had for new developers. I get this question a bunch, so I wanted to put all my thoughts in one place, that I can update as I get more ideas!

I answered this a bunch on my AMA repo, so here's some initial general answers, before I get to some of the specific questions:

• how to find a project to work on: notwaldorf/ama#33
• how I learn: notwaldorf/ama#32
• what to learn: notwaldorf/ama#51
• advice for your first job: notwaldorf/ama#59

textarcana

When JSLint hurts your feelings, hug it out with Doug.

0. There are some situations that are difficult to distinguish mechanically, so I now consider all of those cases problematic, even when they are not obviously wrong.
1. You should be coding for readability and error resistance.
2. The place to express yourself in programming is in the quality of your ideas, and the efficiency of execution. The role of style is the same as in literature. A great writer doesn't express himself by putting the spaces before his commas instead of after, or by putting extra spaces inside his parentheses.
3. Many people think they have good reasons for doing things badly.
4. [The purpose of JSLint is not to make you feel good about inadequate coding standards.](http://tech.groups.y