By: Michael Diedrick on Feb 1, 2021
Coded Bias is a new documentary that follows a researcher at MIT, Joy Buolamwini, who discovered that facial recognition doesn’t work for women or people with brown skin. Was it a bug, a feature, or an indication of something endemic to the industry that produces the applications and software that surrounds us?
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By: Sam Korthof on Jan 5, 2017
After a request and some interesting conversations about issues, and some upgrade-building and testing, we are excited to announce that the new issues system is ready to install and use on your site.
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By: Michael Diedrick on Oct 29, 2013
To us as web developers, it’s fun when a website makes news. More so when the President of the United States has a press conference about a bad website launch. Even more so when a website plays a part in a great national debate. But it’s downright fascinating to see how website part the debate itself is just plain wrong. Read more past the break.
By: Michael Diedrick on May 15, 2012
Each month, we're taking a look at an eponymous law, a 'law' that's named after someone, usually the author.
Today we're looking at Schneier's law - "Any person can invent a security system so clever that she or he can't think of how to break it." More, my new hacker friend, after the break.