Initially, I didn’t want to write this article. The prompt was to write about a technical challenge. To be precise, I did not want to write a technical article at all. Why?

So I decided to anyway. Because fear of online harassment is also a technical challenge. And I don’t feel that we talk about it nearly enough.

According to a 2017 survey by Atlassian, a staggering 76 percent of technical jobs are held by men and Black and Latino people make up just 5 percent of the tech workforce. This is indeed a technical problem, a huge one at that. Knowing this, one might begin to understand why someone who does not fit those characteristics would hesitate when writing a technical post for an audience so very different from them.

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