Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Falsehoods Developers Have About Identity (PyCo...
Search
Amber Brown (HawkOwl)
August 13, 2016
Technology
1
780
Falsehoods Developers Have About Identity (PyCon AU 2016 Lightning Talk)
Amber Brown (HawkOwl)
August 13, 2016
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Amber Brown (HawkOwl)
See All by Amber Brown (HawkOwl)
Batteries Included, But They're Leaking (Python Language Summit, 2019)
hawkowl
0
490
Why Twisted Is The Best (WOOTConf @ LCA 2017)
hawkowl
0
160
Releasing Calendar Versioned Software (PyCon AU 2016)
hawkowl
1
150
The Report of Twisted's Death; or Twisted & Tornado in the Asyncio Age (EuroPython 2016)
hawkowl
0
160
An Asynchronous, Scalable Django with Twisted (PyCon TW 2016 Keynote)
hawkowl
0
200
The Report of Twisted's Death; or Twisted & Tornado in the Asyncio Age (PyCon US 2016)
hawkowl
0
190
Twisted & Python 3 (Python Language Summit, 2016)
hawkowl
0
170
The Report of Twisted's Death; or Twisted & Tornado in the Asyncio Age (Perth Django Meetup)
hawkowl
0
160
The Future of Twisted, and Pretty Much Everything Else (PyCon CZ Keynote, 2015)
hawkowl
0
130
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
業務効率化をさらに加速させる、ノーコードツールとStep Functionsのハイブリッド化
smt7174
2
110
o11yで育てる、強い内製開発組織
_awache
3
140
「使い方教えて」「事例教えて」じゃもう遅い! Microsoft 365 Copilot を触り倒そう!
taichinakamura
0
190
そのWAFのブロック、どう活かす? サービスを守るための実践的多層防御と思考法 / WAF blocks defense decision
kaminashi
0
120
Wasmのエコシステムを使った ツール作成方法
askua
0
100
Simplifying Cloud Native app testing across environments with Dapr and Microcks
salaboy
0
120
関係性が駆動するアジャイル──GPTに人格を与えたら、対話を通してふりかえりを習慣化できた話
mhlyc
0
140
Modern_Data_Stack最新動向クイズ_買収_AI_激動の2025年_.pdf
sagara
0
230
KMP の Swift export
kokihirokawa
0
350
AWS Top Engineer、浮いてませんか? / As an AWS Top Engineer, Are You Out of Place?
yuj1osm
2
180
許しとアジャイル
jnuank
1
140
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure(ExaDB-D) UI スクリーン・キャプチャ集
oracle4engineer
PRO
3
5.5k
Featured
See All Featured
Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design
aarron
274
41k
Into the Great Unknown - MozCon
thekraken
40
2.1k
Making the Leap to Tech Lead
cromwellryan
135
9.6k
The Pragmatic Product Professional
lauravandoore
36
6.9k
"I'm Feeling Lucky" - Building Great Search Experiences for Today's Users (#IAC19)
danielanewman
229
22k
A Tale of Four Properties
chriscoyier
160
23k
Producing Creativity
orderedlist
PRO
347
40k
Fantastic passwords and where to find them - at NoRuKo
philnash
52
3.4k
Building a Scalable Design System with Sketch
lauravandoore
462
33k
Become a Pro
speakerdeck
PRO
29
5.5k
How GitHub (no longer) Works
holman
315
140k
VelocityConf: Rendering Performance Case Studies
addyosmani
332
24k
Transcript
Falsehoods Developers Have About Identity PyCon Australia, 2016
Hello, I’m Amber Brown (HawkOwl)
@hawkieowl atleastfornow.net
Identity
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" What is identity?
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" <poll>
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Name Gender Date of
Birth Nationality
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Name Gender Date of
Birth Nationality
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Married people Trans &
NB individuals Divorced people Pseudonymous people
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" My name: Amber Hawkie
Brown != my birth name
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" First name [Middle name]
Last name
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Name
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity"
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity"
At common law an adult may assume any surname by
using such name and becoming known by it. A surname is not a matter of law but a matter of repute … The law of this country allows any person to assume and use any name, provided its use is not calculated to deceive and to inflict pecuniary loss.
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Name Gender Date of
Birth Nationality
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Gender is not binary
Gender is not constant
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Gender is not something
you should care about
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Pronouns != Gender
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Sex != Gender
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Name Gender Date of
Birth Nationality
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" It can't change, right?
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" lol, clerical errors
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" lol, historical timezone changes
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Name Gender Date of
Birth Nationality
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Countries merging Countries splitting
Countries changing hands
What does your application do wrong?
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Django does names wrong
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Facebook does names VERY
wrong ...but genders sort of right
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Every Australian form does
marriages wrong
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" The only way to
fix this is to have a diverse developer base
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Don't think you know.
You don't know.
The Consequences
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Denying a person their
identity is denying them their humanity
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Excluded Marginalised Upset
@hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Don't make assumptions.