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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.