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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

Optional chaining makes it into ES2020 December 6, 2019
#466 — December 6, 2019 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly JavaScript, ES6, ES7, ES10.. Where Are We? — A look at the current features within JavaScript, what got rejected, and what native support for ‘modern’ JavaScript features is like. It’s a bit of a mish-mash, but covers a lot of proposals. Yann Stepienik Optional Chaining […]
The 2019 State of JavaScript survey is here November 29, 2019
#465 — November 29, 2019 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly ▶ Faster JavaScript Apps with JSON.parse() — Did you know that JSON can be parsed more quickly than JavaScript itself? Here's how and why to consider using JSON.parse instead of normal object literals. Mathias Bynens / Bram van Damme It's Time to Take the State of […]
How the top 6 million sites are using JavaScript November 22, 2019
#464 — November 22, 2019 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Postwoman: An API Request Builder and Tester — A free alternative to Postman, a popular app for debugging and testing HTTP APIs. Postwoman works in the browser and supports HTTP and WebSocket requests as well as GraphQL. Insomnia is a similar tool if you […]
Front end tooling, building your own React, and getting started with AssemblyScript November 15, 2019
#463 — November 15, 2019 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Build Your Own React — An interestingly presented walkthrough of creating your own React-a-like from scratch. You’ll need some time (and be gentle with the scrolling) but this is an interesting way to present such a walkthrough. Rodrigo Pombo The Bytecode Alliance: Building A Secure-by-Default, […]

Make 2020 The Year You Learn Dataviz December 4, 2019
Enjoy our visualization work? Seen our interactives? Loving Beautiful News? Tickets are selling fast for our London workshop on 14 January 2020. David McCandless, founder of Information is Beautiful, offers you training on his concept-driven process and method for creating successful, impactful and memorable dataviz and infographics. Participants have described our workshops as “awesome”, and […]
Duncan Geere
Information is Beautiful Awards Winners 2019 November 21, 2019
Huge congratulations to the ingenious, insightful and inspiring winners of 2019’s Information is Beautiful Awards – a celebration of the world’s best data visualizations and infographics. Here’s the full list of all 37 winners A truly vintage year 2019. An amazingly varied shortlist. Deserved winners. Thanks to all our esteemed judges and our beloved sponsor […]
Duncan Geere
£Billions UK Pounds Visualized November 13, 2019
UK election time and all parties, as per usual, are blasting £BILLIONS into the headlines. Here’s some fresh visualized context for those numbers. Created by @vizsweet. » See the visualisation » See the data
David McCandless
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 […]
Duncan Geere

S10:E8 - What you should look for in online coding courses (Colt Steele) November 11, 2019
With the explosion of coding bootcamps, video courses, and other resources for coding, it can be tough for somebody starting out to cut the wheat from the chaff. We chat with Colt Steele, Colt Steele, developer and bootcamp instructor at Udemy, about his winding road to becoming a coder, what makes a good course, and […]
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S10:E7 - Why you should learn to speak machine (John Maeda) November 4, 2019
We chat with John Maeda, Chief Experience Officer at Publicis Sapient, about his journey into combining art and technology, going from working in academia to silicon valley, and his new book, “How to Speak Machine: Laws of Design For a Computational Age.” Show Links Flatiron School (sponsor) Red Hat (sponsor) MongoDB (sponsor) Publicis Sapient RISD: […]
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S10:E6 - How can we make the future of programming more inclusive? (Tim O'Reilly) October 28, 2019
We chat with Tim O'Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media, about what we’re doing wrong and what we’re doing right with teaching programming today, and how we need to make coding more inclusive for more than just career developers. Show Links Flatiron School (sponsor) Red Hat (sponsor) MongoDB (sponsor) O'Reilly Media The Whole Internet User's Guide […]
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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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IBM Engineer Who Designed The Universal Product Code Dies At 94 December 12, 2019
The bar code is now a packaging mainstay, but it probably wouldn't have worked without George Laurer.
Sam Gringlas
YouTube Announces New Anti-Harassment Policy To Fight Racial, Gender, LGBTQ Abuse December 11, 2019
The Google-owned company has faced scrutiny in the past for failing to protect its users from harassment. It announced new policies Wednesday in an attempt to address the criticism.
Paolo Zialcita
Meteorologists Can't Keep Up With Climate Change In Mozambique December 11, 2019
As world leaders gather for a climate summit in Madrid, some of the countries most vulnerable to climate change say they need improved forecasting tools.
Rebecca Hersher
As TikTok Grows In Popularity, It's Also Setting Off Alarms In Silicon Valley December 10, 2019
TikTok is one of the world's fastest growing apps, racking up 1.5 billion downloads and minting music hits. But the Chinese-owned app is also making people in Washington and Silicon Valley nervous.
Shannon Bond
Internet Historians Mourn Loss Of Cultural Record As Yahoo Prepares To Delete Groups December 9, 2019
At one time, there were 10 million Yahoo Groups with more than 100 million users - from neighborhood organizations to amateur astronomers. On Saturday, the archives will disappear.
Neda Ulaby