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How to Accessibility if You’re Mostly Back-EndRubyConf 20262026-07-14
Back-end work changes accessibility by adopting concrete practices: use linters (RuboCop), RSpec patterns, Swagger docs and Jira tickets; prefer descriptive…
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How to Make Your Website Not Ugly: Basic UX for ProgrammersNDC Oslo 20242024-06-10
Claims measurable UX wins: visitors read about 20% of on-page text, reading speed peaks near 74 characters per line so use width:76ch or similar; use…
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How to Accessibility if You’re Mostly Back-EndHelvetic Ruby 20242024-05-17
Back-end engineers can improve accessibility with concrete practices: use avoid abbreviations and pronounceable names, run linters like RuboCop to enforce…
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How to Accessibility if You’re Mostly Back-EndRailsConf 20242024-05-07
Back-end work changes accessibility in concrete ways: 16% of people have a disability, 20% have dyslexia, 8% of men are color blind, and over 10% of…
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How to Accessibility if You’re Mostly Back-EndRailsConf 20242024-05-07
Backend work affects accessibility through concrete, testable changes: use avoid abbreviations everywhere, pick descriptive names and underscores in APIs, run…
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How We Implemented Internal Salary Transparency (And Why It Matters)RailsConf 20232023-04-24
At 10 Forward Consulting the company publishes a career progression doc with salary ranges, stores data in an internal Wiki with a historical-data tab, runs…
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How to Make Your Website Not Ugly: Basic UX for ProgrammersRubyConf AU 20232023-02-16
Demonstrates 10 small UX fixes that actually change outcomes: use 60–100 character line lengths (about 75 is ideal), keep body text at or above 16px browser…
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How We Implemented Salary Transparency (And Why It Matters)RubyConf Mini 20222022-11-15
Company publishes a career progression document with salary ranges, keeps a shared spreadsheet with a historical salary tab and a repeating task to update it…
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Why we worry about all the wrong thingsRubyConf 20212021-11-08
Argument shows concrete numbers and usable tactics: spiders 12 of 40,000 species are venomous (0.0003%), commercial US flights had zero fatalities 2009–2019…
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Why we Worry About all the Wrong ThingsRailsConf 2020 CE2020-05-04
Claims land with numbers: only about 12 of 40,000 spider species pose harm, spiders kill ~7 people/year vs cows ~20; major airline accident odds ~1 in 5.4…
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What I Learned my First Year as a Full-time ProgrammerPHP UK Conference 20202020-02-19
Harvard Business Review data show “superstar” coders hurt teams and converting them to average improves performance; an intern’s integration research actually…
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What I learned my first year as a full-time programmerRailsConf 20192019-05-01
Claims that “superstar” coders cost companies citing a Harvard Business Review study and a concrete stat: 80,000 projected unfilled U.S. tech jobs through…
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How to Make Your Website Not UglyJSConf Hawai 20192019-02-07
Claim: visual design drives first impressions — 46% visual-design importance versus 8% for functionality — and people read only 20% of text, so layout choices…
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We've Always Been Here: Women Changemakers in TechRailsConf 20172017-04-25
A rapid checklist: specific claims and numbers — diverse companies are 35% more likely to outperform, 45% likelier to grow market share, 70% likelier to…
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