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June 19, 2013October 1, 2018

Women in Transportation Newsletter – Summer 2013

As Co-Chair of the Communications and Newsletter committees for WTS-DC, I redesigned the newsletter and converted the summer edition to Flash format to enhance interactivity with features such as digital page turns and videos. This issue also contains my photography as well as articles written by me.

Cover of WTS-DC Newsletter June 2013/Photo by Lindsay Brown

April 25, 2013July 8, 2016

Women in Transportation Newsletter – Spring 2013

As Co-Chair of WTS-DC’s Communications and Newsletter Committees, I redesigned the newsletter cover, logo, and layout. This issue also includes my event photography and an article written by me.

March 18, 2013 WTS-DC 1 cover photo of the Capitol in Washington, DC — Cover of WTS-DC Newsletter Spring 2013/Photo by Lindsay Brown

Should 'JavaScript' be rebranded? October 18, 2019
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A Closer Look at Top-Level `await` October 11, 2019
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Preact X, Node-RED 1.0, and TypeScript 3.7 beta October 4, 2019
#457 — October 4, 2019 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Preact X: A Fast, 3KB React Alternative — Two years in the making, the latest version of Preact, a popular lightweight React-compatible alternative, is here. Support for hooks, ‘fragment’ components, and improved error handling are all here. For more info, check out the What’s […]
V8 7.8, Node 12.11, and a Douglas Crockford book review September 27, 2019
#456 — September 27, 2019 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly The Making of a 13 Kilobyte JS Real-Time Strategy Game — Last week we linked to the 200+ entries in the recent JS13KGames contest, but if you’ve wondered how developers actually build such games, here’s a look behind the scenes. PhobosLab Why JavaScript Tooling 'Sucks' […]

Seaweed: Food, Fertilizer, Feed & Fuel October 14, 2019
Fast-growing kelp forests can deliver biofuels, biofertilizer, animal feed additives, and even tasty, nutritious food – while sucking carbon out of the atmosphere in the process. To create this all-encompassing explainer on the benefits of seaweed, we spoke to scientific experts and reviewed all of the latest reports and research. » Check out our findings […]
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A sneak peek of our new project: Beautiful News October 2, 2019
We’ve just quietly launched something. It’s called Beautiful News. It surfaces and visualises all the amazing things happening in the world. The things we don’t see because we’re fixated on the drama and horror of the news. It’s been a year in the making – research, visualisation and design. And it will gently unfold over […]
David McCandless
The World’s Largest and Most Notable Energy Sources July 23, 2019
What’s the world’s largest power plant? How does solar compare to nuclear, coal and gas? How much of the world’s renewable energy potential are we using? Understanding the world’s energy systems isn’t easy, so we’ve made it a little simpler with this ranking of the world’s biggest and most notable power plants. » Power through […]
Duncan Geere
A Curated Library of Essential Dataviz Books July 10, 2019
A filterable chart of dataviz books that we think everyone should read. We excluded books about specific tools or programming concepts, but you’ll find them in the full datasheet. Crowdsourced with the help of the Data Visualization Society Did we miss any? Send a suggestion. » Check out our recommendations
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S10:E5 - How to be a good manager and a good employee (Lara Hogan) October 21, 2019
You can be an amazing developer, but a terrible manager. We chat with Lara Hogan, former VP of Engineering at Kickstarter, co-founder of Wherewithall, a company that coaches and levels up managers, and author of the new bestselling book, Resilient Management, about her background going from web developer to manager, why becoming a manager isn’t […]
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S10:E4 - Building a personal brand early in your development career (Amy Chen) October 14, 2019
We chat with Amy Chen, systems software engineer at VMware and creator of the Amy Codes YouTube channel, about her career two years into being a professional developer, getting into coding for distributed systems, and the benefits of creating a personal brand. Show Links Flatiron School (sponsor) Red Hat (sponsor) MongoDB (sponsor) Amy Codes Kubernetes […]
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S10:E3 - How do you prepare for bootcamp and break into tech? (Ruben Harris) October 7, 2019
We chat with Ruben Harris, CEO of Career Karma, and a man with bit of an unconventional background. He’s worked as an event organizer for athletes and celebrities, an investment banker, and professional cellist. We chat with him about how he broke into the startup world, his advice for people trying to do the same, […]
CodeNewbie
S10:E2 - What are the pros and cons of getting paid for open source (Katie Delfin) September 30, 2019
For all of the benefits of open source, such as pushing innovation and creating huge collaborative ways to build powerful products, there are also very legitimate concerns in terms of sustainability, exploitation of new developers, and the privilege of who actually has the time and resources to contribute to open source. We chat with Katie […]
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S10:E1 - What does ageism in tech look like (Ariana Tobin) September 23, 2019
Ageism in tech has been an open secret in Silicon Valley for years. We spoke with Ariana Tobin, engagement editor at ProPublica, and co-author of the investigative piece "Cutting 'Old Heads' at IBM," about what ageism in tech really looks like, and allegations of ageism against the tech giant. Show Links Flatiron School (sponsor) Red […]
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Kara Swisher's Take On Mark Zuckerberg's 'Free Speech' Speech October 20, 2019
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Boeing Pilots Detected 737 Max Flight Control Glitch 2 Years Before Deadly Crash October 19, 2019
One pilot messaged that the problem was "egregious" and he had "basically lied to the regulators (unknowingly)" when he had told the FAA that the flight control system was safe.
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Drone Delivery Is One Step Closer To Reality October 18, 2019
Walgreens is testing out delivery from store to door by drone in Virginia, and UPS won approval to expand air delivery of medical supplies.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Discusses Free Speech With Georgetown Students October 17, 2019
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will address Georgetown University students about free speech. Facebook and other platforms like Twitter are under pressure to define how they are policing free speech.
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Who Has The Right To Be Forgotten? October 17, 2019
EU citizens have the right to be forgotten. Why don't Americans?