Dispatches From The Internets

Ensuring equal pay for equal work

In their latest update, Microsoft has gotten pretty damn close to equal pay for equal work. There’s still some work to be done for Latin & Hispanic populations and women in general, but this is progress. And I appreciate the honesty.

Here are the stats for U.S. employees, assuming the same job title and level:

  • Women earn 99.8¢ for every $1 earned by a man;
  • Racial/ethnic minorities earn $1.004 for every $1 earned by a Caucasian employee;
  • African American/Black employees earn $1.003 for every $1 earned by Caucasian employees;
  • Hispanic/Latin employees earn 99.9¢ for every $1 earned by Caucasian employees; and
  • Asian employees earn $1.006 for every $1 earned by Caucasian employees.

On the leading Edge

This is a really nice round-up of the Edge Web Summit from Kit Kelly. And no, I didn’t pay him for the nice things he said about my talk :-)

Why Javascript Development is Crazy

So true:

Most of these tools you think you have to have are solving problems you don’t have NOR WILL YOU EVER HAVE.

My Top Takeaways From the 2016 Edge Web Summit

Earlier this week, my colleagues on the Microsoft Edge team put on the second of what has now become an annual event: the Edge Web Summit. The format was a little different this year, with team members from across the organization delivering quick, punchy 30-minute talks on topics ranging from standard implementations to the user experience of a browser to real-time communications. I live-tweeted quite a few of the talks, but I thought I’d provide a bit of a round-up of what was revealed, discussed, and more so you can read it all in one place.

Offline First: Love the Idea, Hate the Name

Back in 2014, I had the great pleasure of listening to Ola Gasidlo of Hood.ie discuss the importance of offline at Beyond Tellerrand in Düsseldorf, Germany. Her excellent talk was my introduction to the “Offline First” movement and, while I can get behind the idea, I’ve had some serious issues with the name. And with the rise of Service Workers as a simple, usable means of making our content available offline, I thought it worth revisiting the idea of “offline first”, if only to address its core fallacy.