Amanda Unvarnished

Let’s focus on the future, and fix the problems we still need to solve.

Unprofessional policing kills people.

Speed for who? by Andy Bell (andy-bell.co.uk)

Frameworks are often touted as something like “a lightning fast development experience” and that’s fine I guess, but the speed is in the wrong hands. Why not “a lightning fast experience for your users”? Sure, some frameworks will claim to be very fast for end-users with some very meticulously, massaged data to “prove” that, but […]

"It’s kind of hard to prevent people from running that have different opinions."

Lots of Republicans want Donald Trump to disappear from politics. Their main strategy is hope.

Developer conferences still don't appear to be back at full strength, and that may just be a new reality.

EARIER THIS MONTH, the administration of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wrote to 12 state universities, ordering them to provide a list of how many students, of what ages, had sought or received gender-reassignment treatment through their schools’ medical services. The request was strikingly detailed, specifically asking, item by item, about puberty blockers, hormone treatments, mastectomies, […]

On Saturday, Governor Spencer Cox of Utah signed a complete ban on hormone replacement therapy and gender affirming surgery for transgender youth in the state. The bill targets the most vulnerable kids in our country, who face the highest rates of suicide of any group, but to hear him say it, he’s really doing it to protect kids. Yet he had to lie outright to try and make that point.