diversity

2026

• Short Stints, Real Experience: Rethinking Career Tenure

  Jan 5

  The hiring world still clings to tenure requirements that ignore reality. I’ve been on both sides — rejecting candidates for short stints and creating holes in other engineers’ resumes myself. It’s time to rethink what “experience” actually means.

  5 min · career · diversity

2024

• Tech Error: Diversity Not Found

  Apr 30

  If everyone around me looks like me, sounds like me, and generally thinks like me I am not learning or growing. Diversity is a critical requirement for growth, development, and sustainability in any field – but tech in particular!

  6 min · diversity · speaking

2022

• Representation in tech

  Feb 28

  Those who see representative role models are the most successful among us. We need more diverse representation in tech!

  2 min · diversity

2020

• One Man’s Unsolicited Opinion on the WordPress 5.6 All-Women Release Squad

  Aug 19

  An all-women release squad for WordPress is long overdue. I’m excited to see what the new 5.6 release will bring to the community!

  3 min · diversity · WordPress · Politics

2018

• I Won’t be at ZendCon

  Oct 8

  Next week kicks off the latest version of ZendCon in Las Vegas. Though I had, for a time, expected to be there … I won’t be. You should know why.

  4 min · diversity · PHP

2017

• Missing: Diversity in Tech

  Nov 6

  I’ve attended at least 14 tech events in a year, and nearly every one lacked diversity. A stage of nine white men isn’t ‘the open source community.’ Why representation matters, and what we miss without it.

  5 min · diversity · speaking · Politics

2015

• Community Support

  Jul 17

  You don’t have to understand why someone wants your help living their dream. Just recognize that, if you’re already living yours, you might just have been in a better place to get there; their road might be harder to walk.

  4 min · diversity · Scouting · Politics

2014

• Guilty Until Proven Innocent

  Dec 4

  I’m angry that we’ve let our country get to this point. I’m also ashamed that my silence in the face of this injustice has let it continue to grow.

  3 min · diversity · ethics · Politics

• Today’s Youth and Tomorrow’s Technology

  Nov 13

  How many times will today’s youth be told “you can’t do that” before they internalize it, begin to believe it, and doom us to a future of technological mediocrity?

  3 min · diversity · learning

• Culture Fair

  Aug 25

  Can a white person have “culture?”

  5 min · diversity

• More than a Hashtag

  Aug 24

  Generalizations are dangerous. Generalizations based on an unchangeable, non-elective, personal characteristic are even more so.

  4 min · diversity

• Mixing Faith and Politics

  Aug 17

  The Bible seems to both promote and condemn standing against governing authorities dispensing injustice. What is a faithful follower of God to do?

  4 min · diversity · ethics · Politics