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Radical Inclusion panel discussion
Read more: Radical Inclusion panel discussionLast Tuesday I attended the Radical Inclusion panel discussion, hosted online by Women Who Code. The panelists were Jessica Rafuse from Microsoft, Caterina Paun from Portland State University, and Amy Carney, a Digital Accessibility Specialist. The conversation evolved around disability inclusion in the workplace, allyship, and the accessibility of the digital tools and platforms that…
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Data Science meetup in Glasgow
Read more: Data Science meetup in GlasgowGlasgow’s Data Science meetup, hosted by MBN, was on last Thrusday. Vlad Fojtik from Aggreko talked about AI fairness. He told us about how society values shape the datasets which are then used to train the models, about the 9 protected characteristics as set in the 2010 Equality Act, and the 4/5 rule stemming from…
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How to keep up with change in tech
Read more: How to keep up with change in techChange and innovation are core in the world of tech and engineering. We’ve all heard the sound-bites, such as disruption, one of my favourites 😀 They are everywhere! We can safely say, however, that behind every push for change there is a genuine desire to either improve what is already there, solve an existing problem…
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WordPress Coding Standards from the Terminal
Read more: WordPress Coding Standards from the TerminalThis article will show you how to add the tools you need to test your code against the WordPress Coding Standards from the Command Line. A second article will be published shortly with instructions for adding them to the code editor Atom. It will also include links to the instructions for other editors. Going by…
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Polyglots at WordCamp London
Read more: Polyglots at WordCamp LondonIt’s WordCamp London 2018 this weekend and, this year, I have the honour to be able to help out with the Contributor Day’s Polyglots team, instead of just participating as I had done in previous occasions. So, in preparation, I’ve been working on a “Quick Introduction to the WordPress Polyglots Team” document that I’d like…
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Introduction to Gutenberg, the new WordPress Editor
Read more: Introduction to Gutenberg, the new WordPress EditorSometime in April 2018, the next major WordPress core software update (version 5.0) will be released and, with it, its new editor: Gutenberg. So, when you next change the content of a page or blog post, or create a new one, where you were used to see a light grey screen with a title and…