TATIANA MAC
@TatianaTMac
Technical
Debt
for Us
Awakening
Act I
What I once never saw I could not unsee
Me love you
long time!"
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30
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9 July 2018
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Fiction
Fact
ME
MY PARENTS
FirstGen
Immigrants
Individuality
Assimilation
Oppression
Opportunity
W
T
F
CSS-in-JS
Web components
React
Vue
Experimental CSS
or
TATIANA MAC
@TatianaTMac
Technical
Debt
for Us
a concept that reflects the extra development work that arises when easier-to-implement code is used in the short run is used instead of applying the best overall solution.
technical debt
Resistance
A CHOICE
Activation
Act II
Making choices, learning, growing
I didn't choose the thug life,
thug life chose me.
TUPAC SHAKUR
1971-1996
CH4 + 202 — CO2 + 2H2O
Fire can heat.
Fire can burn.
Present. Visible.
INSPIRE
Alive.
Know your strategy.
INTEND
Set boundaries.
INTEND
Tap out.
INTEND
Resistance
A CHOICE
Not of whether, but how
A CHOICE
Resistance isn't only anger.
Resistance is living.
Stoke your
own fire.
INDIVIDUAL
Centring yourself is
a form of resistance.
INDIVIDUAL
Self-care is a form
of resistance.
INDIVIDUAL
Fire can provide
a spark.
COMMUNITY
Be seen as what you never saw.
COMMUNITY
Share your relative privilege.
COMMUNITY
Connection is
a form of resistance.
COMMUNITY
We made fire
from air.
COMMUNITY
We made abundance from scarcity.
Fires are hard
to keep going.
Forgiveness
Act III
We're all trying our very best
You might be
the only one, but
INDIVIDUAL
...you don't always have to be the one.
INDIVIDUAL
We're only experts in our own lived experiences.
INDIVIDUAL
We can have multitudes.
INDIVIDUAL
Stop scrutinising each other.
COMMUNITY
Start being curious.
COMMUNITY
Alignment is reductionist.
COMMUNITY
All our truths are valid.
COMMUNITY
Take up space.
Use resources.
INDIVIDUAL & COMMUNITY
(Digitally and IRL)
Care
TAKE
Ourselves and each other.
Technical Debt for Us
By Tatiana Mac
Technical Debt for Us
Many if not all of us have been “the only one” in boardrooms, design reviews, diversity and inclusion discussions. Our isolation from people who look like us with similar lived experiences often forces us into roles where we speak on behalf of and advocate for the whole. While honourable and sometimes necessary for self and community preservation, repeatedly playing this role can incur a psychological and career debt: it spends our resources in ways we don’t choose. Through this talk, we’ll seek the balance between our moral imperatives to society, improvement of our environments, and our care to ourselves. We will celebrate the forgiveness for our past and future choices, recognising that the choices we make are never easy.
