This basic fact about social networks disadvantages minorities
On social networks and at tech companies, homophily makes life even harder for women and racial minorities than you might guess.
How A Former Android Developer Created “The Martian,” A New Sci-Fi Masterpiece
With the help of 3,000 hardcore fans, Andy Weir wrote the book that is now the fall’s hottest movie.
State of independence: An inside view of Minecraft developer Mojang
Mojang’s founders didn’t set out to become millionaires; they just like making games. Now they want to make Mojang the best workplace in the world.
What I Learned From Building An App For Low-Income Americans
The brief was simple: build a tech product for low-income American households. Except it wasn’t simple at all.
You’re A Developer. Do Your Kids Have Any Idea What You Actually Do?
We talked to children from ages 3 to 11 years old to find out what, exactly, they think goes on when mom or dad does “programming.”
Why Doctors Make Great Object-Oriented Software Designers
Building health care apps means knowing complex systems both biological and bureaucratic. Here’s how a company called Modernizing Medicine is meeting the challenge.
Why Your Startup’s Culture Is Secretly Awful
Developers love to critique and improve systems and processes, so why do they never cast a critical eye on startup culture itself?
The Loneliness Of The Female Coder
It’s the loneliness that I remember most. More than the joy of cracking a problem, the satisfaction of getting a tricky piece of code to run, of releasing version 1.0...
Five Powerful Reasons Coders Need Yoga
Yoga has an image as an activity for hippie girls, which I’ve found tends to put off male engineers. But yoga is about transforming your mindset as much as your...
More Than An Office, Teenage Engineering’s Minimalist Garage Is A Tinkerer’s Paradise
A band of sound-loving, self-taught engineers set up shop in a Stockholm garage so they can move stuff around, play with new machines and park their vintage cars.
The Father Of “Getting Things Done”: You’re Getting Me All Wrong
Productivity guru David Allen on Zen, doing nothing, and why some people need to “stop focusing on their goals and actually get shit done.”
Why Good Programming Projects Go Bad
Fred Brooks wrote the software development classic The Mythical Man-Month almost 40 years ago. In this interview, Brooks explains why managers still make the same mistakes.
Box’s 65-Year-Old Android Engineer Gives Your Startup Some Unsentimental Advice
There are precious few people who have seen and comprehended enough of the rise of computing, and then mobile computing, to have some perspective.
Dead Technology Commentators: Novelist Marcel Proust Takes On the Telephone
What can a dead French novelist tell us about about new technology? As it turns out, the answer is quite a lot.
This Founder Trained At The Police Academy To Build An App For Cops
Nick Selby spent 20 years working in software. Then he trained as a cop.
No–You Don’t Need To Learn To Code
The whole world seems to be telling you that you need to learn programming. Here’s why you don’t, and what you should learn instead.
All I Want For Christmas Is This Nonexistent Technology
The Fast Co.Labs list of the technologies we wish existed.
