It is the true teacher who leaves the class knowing they have learned the most.
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Nicole, that is exactly it. A perfect articulation of how I feel and have felt for a very long time. Thank you for "getting it" both on the human and tech levels, and challenging status quo always. ❤️
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Books and speaking help. Yet Tab, you've got 2x Elika's followers which is still ridiculously low considering the two of you ARE the freakin' backbone of much of what really gets done in both spec and implementation with #CSS and @csswg. You're a bit of an anomaly in this regard!
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I'm really glad, Sean! You clearly asked an important question with tentacles to other important questions I believe we need to iteratively make part of our knowledge-sharing process. The Web is for the many, not the few or the one 🖖 ❤️💚💙
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THIS! I've often asked other women (the wonderful Rachel here once wouldn't step on a stage at all for many years IIRC) and many women voice they care not for attention or "fame." This is neither to me. It's about sharing our wins and mistakes with an open platform and community.
Need to make sure as an industry we highlight the people who aren’t shouting “look at me!” and just doing the work quietly.
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BTW, 1993 for me. I watched it born. It was nice and clean and worked. And then came the GUI browser. Dun dun dun.... 🎵
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Thank you for asking this question Sean. You've gotten some great answers from the masses and @JenSimmons is powerfully vocal on this topic so I'm glad you've gotten some enlightenment as you desired! Are you surprised at the responses or have any thoughts to share about them? 😀
For a pet project, I'm looking to list out some women who were active and influential in the web from 1995-2002, and not coming up with very many. Enlighten me, please?
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I love that you have the confidence to know your work has mattered Virginia. You too have run a long long career course without much public recognition. Every time you post I am comforted as for me, your longevity and commitment to excellence in industry is profound indeed. ThxU!
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Again, a situation where there are plenty of older folks in the industry but not as the face of it. There is also a damning bit of "youth is more important in edge tech" mentality which only we older folk understand is truly a mistake of youth.
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Just for the record, I don't consider myself particularly "active" in the community much these days so don't post a lot of Web-specific topics anymore. Still, pretty damning numbers. @fantasai 2k? She knows more about #CSS and specs than anyone on the face of the earth. RESPECT!
I’ve also been trying to muster up the guts to write about the sexism measured in Twitter follower stats: mholzschlag 28k / zeldman 357k; karenmcgrane 43k / beep 91k; stubbornella 36k / snookca 53k; standardista 9k / meyerweb 106k; fantasai 2k / tabatkins 4k… on and on.
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I posted the Laura-in-progress (I've fixed my mess on the lip and worked on the background a bit since) but here it is again just for you m'dear. My homage to Lynda is in very early stages still, so no to that ;-) But soon! Here's Laura in pencil, paint and ink based on a photo.
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I absolutely feel this in my marrow to. Iain is not alone. How many of us have ever truly felt "part" of things. People think I ever did? I was a curiosity at best, someone to stick on a poster to assuage guilt. It's not a nice feeling, thank you. nitter.vloup.ch/IainIsCreative/s…
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It's better than it was 20 years ago. There were less than five of us at best and at worst, me. Think I liked that? Not one freakin' bit. I'm glad to see @SaraSoueidan has for good reason risen a bit higher, but Jen's point remains true. Let's not be saying same a decade on.❤️
I can’t find one woman who teaches web design/development who has more than 50k followers. Yet, for men, many are 300k+, 500k+, up to 1 million. The gap is huge. So frustrating. A clear glass ceiling. Something likely no woman in web tech can cross. Race & racism, too. More so.
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The Web is segregated. People think there aren't blacks working it? Please. It's who gets seen, and the white boys get seen the most. I'm glad we celebrate each other in words, now let's reach back and pull a friend up to the stage and build the bridges too, shall we? @jensimmons
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OH hell yeah. And how about that @LizCastro eh? I am working on a series of mixed-media artwork honoring my influences. I started with @lemay as waking the world to HTML. You extended that and are on my own list. I'm comin for ya Liz! Working on @LyndaWeinman such a joy to paint.
How about Robin Williams, @LyndaWeinman @SharonSteuer @mholzschlag, Linnea Dayton, @mlanger, @elaineweinmann, @kissane, @SharonZardetto, Kathy Sierra (Thanks, @dori!)
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If Honey Kitteh and Clayton Pug Pug can get this close without a fight, so can we. World peace and fur butts FTW! #wednesdayWisdom #CatsofTwitter #DogsofTwitter #resist
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Net neutrality activists are celebrating as Democratic senators clear key hurdle to voting against the FCC
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