Overall, I really like this. It's a fairly judicious take on the industry, acknowledging that there is some unpleasant stuff but not painting it as a universal

Overall, I really like this. It's a fairly judicious take on the industry, acknowledging that there is some unpleasant stuff but not painting it as a universal experience (or, worse, darkly alluding to autism and acting like this is about biology over culture). There were two things that threw me off, though. First, the citation of the github study. I don't know if the author or the editor put it in, but it's a woefully incomplete, cherry-picked result that shouldn't have made the press in the first place and shouldn't be repeated. Second, the thing about IDEs. I don't disagree that they're bad, but is that really a diversity issue? Most of the straight white male engineers I know hate most IDEs with a burning passion. The general issue seems to be that they're hard to build and ill-considered, not that they're made by the wrong people. Still, this is a good take on the real-but-limited role of gender in tech, and the role of code as a tool rather than an end in itself. Thanks for sharing it.