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funion··on How Women Got Crowded Out of the Computing Revolution
This is just one anecdote, but I'd like to share my personal experience. Fitting in with the typical boys who took computer classes in high school was really difficult and unpleasant. I'd been using computers and writing code longer than anyone there thanks to parental encouragement, but as a girl that didn't matter.

Girls in the class got picked on all the time. I got nicknamed "secretary" and singled out every class by the other nerds, getting told to go be a secretary because I could type fast, should input their code for them instead of writing my own, etc etc. People pulled classic bully moves like pulling my chair away when I went to sit down. I felt more bullied by them than I ever did by other kids. In my personal experience, the socially awkward computer boys were actively unwelcoming to girls, and awkwardness did not preclude meanness.

funion··on Slack's 404 page
Lo siento mon frere

That which you seek is no longer there

funion··on Are Christmas Lights in Series or Parallel?
Oh interesting, I'd noticed that at some point between my childhood and now, burned out bulbs stopped taking out the entire rest of the light string. I wonder if the bypass wire is a new(ish) development, or if we just had cheap Christmas lights when I was younger.
funion··on Rebuilding the Shopify Admin: Deleting 28k lines of JavaScript
You're dead on. We started work on Batman some time ago now - options then were quite limited.