Finding Ada
Several months ago I signed a pledge that I would publish a blog post today about a woman in technology whom I admire. Well, when writing this post yesterday, I came to the conclusion that it's very hard for me to pick just one specific woman to talk about. So I am talking about more than one, and they're all rockstars—even the ones that I am not mentioning, you know who you are.
In the PHP community there are quite a few ladies that are actively involved. On the C-side of things (not pun intended) there's Sara Golemon and Elizabeth Smith . Sara works at Yahoo! doing search engine things, and is the master of writing interesting, but dangerous extensions to PHP. She's also the author of the only dedicated book on PHP's internals . Elizabeth ( in her own words ) "enjoys doing very perverse things to Windows using PHP" and is generally known as the person who among other things, fixes things on Windows, maintains the PHP-GTK bindings. She also occasionally fixes my code .
With Sara and Elizabeth we also end up at phpwomen . Together with Ligaya Turmelle , Elizabeth Naramore , Kathy Reid and Lorna Mitchell they run this organization to "provide a network of support and mentorship to women, help women become more involved with PHP, increase our numbers at conferences as speakers and attendees, and provide a “female friendly” atmosphere." With their effort, I am sure we'll see more involvement in the PHP community from the other currently unknown female PHP types adding to the diversity of our community.
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Updated a bar; Confirmed a restaurant
Updated 3 restaurants, a vacant shop, and a bar; Confirmed a cosmetics shop, a cafe, and 2 other objects
Created 2 benches and 2 waste_baskets
Deleted a cycle_barrier
Put Kilburn Park station node in a more representable location (not at the back of the building where you can't get in)
Merge branch 'v2022'
Go with 2022.17
Merge branch 'v2022'
Update PHP merging script
Update data to 2026c
Kensal Green sidewalks: Fix alignment and connectivity near station; don't map sidewalks as separate on residential streets for just this tiny section; extend sidewalk mapping on Chamberlayne Road
New building
If you're in London (or Southern England) the ISS is going to make a fly over pass between 23:30 and 23:40 (a little earlier for West of London).
If you're further North than London, the ISS shows further South.
Almost straight overhead. It's going to be bright.
#ISS #SpaceStation #SpaceFlight
Created a wigs shop
Updated a fitness_centre
Seems I removed the landuse/natural tags
Updated a restaurant
Created a bench
Updated a cafe
But I think my favourite photo was of this Carrion Crow in flight.
#Photography #BirdsOfFediverse #BirdPhotography #Nature
The new birds I saw, were mostly too far away to get good photos.
But I saw my first Spoonbill, Corn Bunting, and a flock of Black-tailed Godwits.
#BirdPhotography #BirdsOfFediverse
I had a lovely walk around RSPB Bowers Marsh yesterday, where I saw some expected birds, and a bunch of new species.
When I got there, there was this welcome committee of Starlings.
#BirdPhotography #nature #BirdsOfFediverse #Birds #Photography #RSPB
RSPB Bowers Marsh
Created 2 benches
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