A blog post I wrote for PagerDuty. “You code it, you own it” means engineers are called when the software and systems they’ve built fail in production and it’s their responsibility to get everything working again. However, managers and business stakeholders aren’t usually on-call so they don’t see or feel the pain of being paged. This can […]
Continue reading →Read this blog post I wrote to catch up on progress we’re making at Zignallabs to increase transparency and communication across our engineering team using our own product.
Continue reading →Global Accessibility Awareness Day’s Bay Area Accessibility meetup was hosted by Mozilla Foundation in San Francisco. The events are usually over-subscribed and this was no exception. Mike Shebanek was keynote presenter. He’s currently Senior Director of Accessibility at Yahoo and previously worked on Voiceover at Apple when it was first created.
Continue reading →
Thanks Juliana for the great article in Technical.ly Philly today. So happy to see civic hacking and diversity recognized and embraced by the tech community.
Continue reading →
Last weekend I attended a fun meet-up session organized by brilliant minds at Code for San Jose. The idea was to come up with a set of mini 2-hour civic projects for beginners. I wanted to share my thoughts on what we did because I think it’s something we should all be thinking about if we expect new people to […]
Continue reading →
Here’s a quick update on the stats for bike share usage in Philadelphia as the system gets more and more popular. As mentioned in my previous post I’m collecting from the open data API every five minutes using Logstash and then getting interesting snapshots and time-series graphs from Kibana. Bike availability over time clearly shows how popular the […]
Continue reading →
An exciting week for Philly. The City’s new bike share system was launched on Thursday, Indego, with an impressive 58 active stations and 13 more coming soon. The organization running the system, Bicycle Transit Systems, has partnered with the city to launch an open data API that developers can use to build apps and visualizations. So far, […]
Continue reading →
Usually when I go to hackathons I’m frantically working all weekend building something. This weekend I was invited to be a judge at Code for Philly’s Hack for Democracy. The experience was very different since I had the opportunity to look at a hackathon from a completely new viewpoint. Teams hacked on open data and built visualizations and apps that […]
Continue reading →I was recently volunteering on a project to build a responsive webapp where we used standards to ensure compatibility with screen reader software. Everything was going well; all the necessary markup was in place as recommended on the WebAIM site. Field sets, labels and buttons ordered correctly. I turned on screen reader options and everything was read back […]
Continue reading →
Just over a year ago I started a volunteer civic project with Code for Philly called UnlockPhilly at a Hackathon called Apps for Philly Transit. UnlockPhilly’s aim: to raise awareness of good and bad accessibility by mapping accessible stations, elevator outages and accessible venues in Philadelphia. This blog post reviews progress made so far and describes […]
Continue reading →