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  Monki Gras 2025: What I’ve Learned by Building to Last

  There are patterns in what lasts; people skills matter more than technical skills; long-lasting systems cannot grow forever.

• Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step…

  Swing dancing and prompt engineering are pretty different. But could learning one help us learn the other?

• Agile and iterative project management

  Notes from a talk about agile and iterative approaches to project management.

• READMEs for Open Science

  Slides for a short talk about READMEs, why they’re important, and what they should contain.

• SeptembRSE: Missing narratives in discussions around diversity and inclusion

• Inclusion can’t be an afterthought

  Notes from a talk about inclusion in design and unconscious bias.

• Monki Gras 2019: The Curb Cut Effect

  Slides and notes for my talk ‘The Curb Cut Effect’. Making something better for disabled people can make it better for everybody.

• Assume worst intent (designing against the abusive ex)

  How do we design services and platforms to reduce the risk of harassment and abuse from other users?

• Building trust in an age of suspicious minds

  Notes and slides from my PyCon UK 2018 keynote. In a world where people are less and less trusting, how can we take steps to make ourselves more trustable?

• (Anti) Social Media

  Slides and notes for a talk about online harassment, and why you should always design with an abusive ex in mind.

• Using privilege to improve inclusion

  In the tech industry, how can we be more aware of our privilege, and use that to build inclusive cultures?

• Ode to docopt

  Why I love docopt as a tool for writing clean, simple command-line interfaces.