My one big piece of advice to anyone entering tech:

Don't get used to tech company salaries.
Don't get mortgages and car payments that you can only afford with tech company salaries.
Build as much emergency funds as you possibly can with tech company salaries.
Fully expect that you'll get laid off the exact same time the entire rest of the industry stops hiring people, and it may be a couple years before hiring starts back up again.

Sure, you may think those 6 figure salaries means you're living on easy street, but when it comes with only working 8 out of every 10 years, those numbers aren't near as good.

I love moving to inclusive naming of things in tech.

Not only is "Allowlist/Blocklist" (or equivalent) more inclusive than "whitelist/blacklist", it also makes it that much more clear what putting something on the list actually does.

Same with Master branches on code repositories - what does that even mean? It's not actually ruling over any other branches, it's just the main code trunk all of the others are branching off of. Calling it "master" just makes it more confusing.

Same with "master/slave" databases - Active/standby is going to be more clear about the roles and responsibilities of the various servers.

#NonBinary, #Agender, #Genderqueer, #genderfluid, #genderflux, and literally anyone else who explores genders outside their assigned one:

You Are "Trans Enough" to be visible with us today if you want to be. You don't have to apologize for anything. You're not appropriating anything. You. Are. Trans. Enough. When an AMAB Demiboy is visible, it makes my community bigger, stronger, and more vibrant. When an AFAB genderqueer friend is visible, it brings additional color and community to our family. It doesn't matter if nobody outside of your closest friends ever genders you correctly, you never dress differently, you never wear pronoun pins, or whatever. You can be trans if you want to be trans. And I'll love to welcome you to the club. There's plenty of room.

To everyone who says: "They can't do that, it's unconstitutional!"

That means justice would require a court battle.

It will end up in the same Supreme Court who has willy nilly overturned 50 years of precedent and case law because it fits their ideology.

It's a dog whistle to their followers that they're free to ramp up their hatred and discrimination against said minority and the state will not punish them for it.

It means that cops can harass you for violating that law, and simply decline to prosecute you all day long, giving nobody actual standing to challenge the law. That's how anti-sodomy laws stayed on the books for decades despite not being enforced.

It's a chilling effect on that community - a state-wide sign that you're not wanted here. You should leave. If you stay, we're not going to protect you. You're all alone.

#TransRights #BLM #antiracism #equality #TransRightsAreHumanRights