# \#diversity **URL:** https://forum.devtalk.com/tag/diversity/487.md [Latest](https://forum.devtalk.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.devtalk.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.devtalk.com/tags.md) --- ## [Support diversity in tech; listen to talks with codebar and PragProg; save on books](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/support-diversity-in-tech-listen-to-talks-with-codebar-and-pragprog-save-on-books/170878)
**Author:** [@Margaret](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/Margaret)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [7 October 2024 12:41 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/support-diversity-in-tech-listen-to-talks-with-codebar-and-pragprog-save-on-books/170878 "2024-10-07T12:41:24Z")
On Oct 7, join us for An Afternoon with Pragmatic Bookshelf to benefit codebar. Five online talks with authors. Free event. Register now; space is limited: Use 2024codebar for 40% off books at pragprog.com Oct 7-13… --- ## [Support diversity in tech with codebar and PragProg](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/support-diversity-in-tech-with-codebar-and-pragprog/158496)
**Author:** [@Margaret](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/Margaret)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [10 June 2024 14:18 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/support-diversity-in-tech-with-codebar-and-pragprog/158496 "2024-06-10T14:18:24Z")
The evening of June 11 you can catch talks from Leemay Nassery @leemay and VM (Vicky) Brasseur @vmbrasseur sponsored by codebar: https://codebar.io/events/an-evening-with-pragmatic-bookshelf-author-edition We are donat… --- ## [Being Humane in Tech - Sascha Wolf](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/being-humane-in-tech-sascha-wolf/3729)
**Author:** [@AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/AstonJ)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [4 November 2020 07:38 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/being-humane-in-tech-sascha-wolf/3729 "2020-11-04T07:38:03Z")
This talk by @wolf4earth was posted in a thread about pull requests, but it warrants a thread of its own :blush: As Sascha highlights, being compassionate can sometimes make all the difference. Life is hard enough as it… --- ## [A job at Yale in the 1960s set Susan Eggers on a path in computer science](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/a-job-at-yale-in-the-1960s-set-susan-eggers-on-a-path-in-computer-science/2277)
**Author:** [@bot](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/bot)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [17 September 2020 15:01 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/a-job-at-yale-in-the-1960s-set-susan-eggers-on-a-path-in-computer-science/2277 "2020-09-17T15:01:35Z")
https://egc.yale.edu/how-job-yale-1960s-set-susan-eggers-groundbreaking-path-computer-science This was posted by one of our members via one of our automated news source trackers. If you feel this thread could be in a be… --- ## [Testing our new diversity auto-bot](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/testing-our-new-diversity-auto-bot/1111)
**Author:** [@AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/AstonJ)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [18 July 2020 01:57 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/testing-our-new-diversity-auto-bot/1111 "2020-07-18T01:57:00Z")
Hey all… just testing our new diversity message feature :nerd: We have been in talks with members of minority groups and they have given us some valuable feedback. We discussed whether it would be worth having individua… --- ## [Twitter drops 'master', 'slave' and 'blacklist'](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/twitter-drops-master-slave-and-blacklist/991)
**Author:** [@AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/AstonJ)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [6 July 2020 22:47 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/twitter-drops-master-slave-and-blacklist/991 "2020-07-06T22:47:14Z")
This is fantastic! On Thursday, Twitter’s engineering division tweeted out a set of words that it wants “to move away from using in favour of more inclusive language”. The list includes replacing “whitelist” with “al…