[Opinion] When Nerds Collide (2014) - Brilliant post on the hacker ethos vs identity politics.

Time to give it the love it deserves. Meredith Patterson is outrageously smart and pretty based to boot.

I don't care whom she's quoting here, in this context it doesn't invalidate anything she says.

While I didn't become a programmer (let alone a true hacker of godly skills), I can absolutely relate to being a weirdo and using the Internet to make up for that.

The writing is damn powerful. Longer than I expected (keep looking at the scroll bars, the paragraph breaks can be huge, so don't think the text is over before it actually is), but some parts are literally shiver-inducing due to their accuracy. Well done.

She also seemed to be convinced poor Ahmed was just an innocent kid as opposed to a troll family blown up into national drama that makes Balloon Boy look lame.

However, if you read her piece "Feminism it's time we had a talk about empathy" though, she clearly has a complex view of a lot of these issues, and her stance cannot be boiled down to tropes.