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ThemeSelection on April 01, 2021

Well, here we are going to list down some of the well-known JavaScript influencers. Although, before we head towards the list let's take an overvie...
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Sylwia Vargas • Edited

Given how very not diverse this list of recommendations is, Iโ€™m curious what your research process was?

You missed quite a few women and black devs with high following. Was this intentional, or more connected to your research process?

EDIT: I see youโ€™ve added Sophie Alpert and Ashley Williams (whoโ€™s a Rust dev, though) โ€” please continue your research โœจ I added a list in one of the comments below.

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Sylwia Vargas

My question is about the research process because clearly many โ€œinfluentialโ€ devs have been overlooked.

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Sylwia Vargas • Edited

It is a plain request for clarification on the research process -- your explanation that the OP has "the right to share these influential devs" is unnecessary because I am not taking that right away. My expectation, as a tech writer, is that other authors will have a research process in place and that they will be transparent about it. If the research process consists of just enumerating their favorites, that's fine by me as long as they are transparent about it (which they are not).

Also fyi:

Stop taking everything personally, and stop thinking everything is discrimination.

comes across as quite condescending -- please address other members of the community with respect, especially if you don't know them and have not engaged with their comments before. Given how rarely I engage in such conversations, the hyperbole you used there is less indicative of my ways of being than of how you feel about questions regarding diversity. This is something I'm inviting you to think about.

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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

You are right sylwia I also feeling something like that ๐Ÿ™…๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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eavnitech

You are right,
I dont even know anyone.

blacklivesmatter

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ThemeSelection • Edited

You might have missed the conclusion. We are open to suggestions and we have written in the conclusion that you can suggest influencers that we can include.

Also, this post is regarding JavaScript Influencers. So, kindly suggest any JavaScript influencer you have in mind and we will include him/her.

About intentions: Neither we promote racism nor we are gender bias, so there is no need to point it out. We haven't intentionally opted out any based on color or gender.

Thank you. ๐Ÿ™‚

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Sylwia Vargas • Edited

Thank you for your answer.

Iโ€™m still curious about your research process. How did you choose the folks? And, now that you brought it up, who you perceive as influencer? Is it the following base on Twitter?

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Sylwia Vargas

Well, if youโ€™re curious, I trust youโ€™ll google it! Try for instance: โ€œwomen to follow in techโ€, or โ€œblack JS devs Twitterโ€. Thatโ€™s the best way to fulfill your curiosity โ€” you donโ€™t need to ask other people to do this for you!

However, even though I typically donโ€™t do other peopleโ€™s homework, here are a few JS devs who are not white cishet men just to get you started:

  • Sophie Alpert (60,7k followers)
  • Monica Powell (9k)
  • Taeโ€™lur Alexis (51,3k)
  • Samantha Ming (22,5k)
  • Gift Egwuenu (18,3k)
  • Christian Nwamba (39,8k)
  • Ania Kubow (31,9k)
  • Kapehe_ok (11,3k)
  • Cassidy Williams (152,3k)
  • Laurie Barth (22,3k)
  • Kelsey Hightower (122,4K)
  • Kefimochi (18k)
  • Sara Vieira (34,4K)
  • Amelia Wattenberger (15,3k)
  • Nicole Archambault (12,9k)
  • Marcy Stutton (22,1k)
  • Mandy Mitchell (11,3k)
  • Molly Struve (15,8k)

I hope that you are still curious! And that you will follow them.

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ThemeSelection

Thank you very much for your suggestion.๐Ÿ‘ We will go through the profiles and will include them.

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Sylwia Vargas

Great! Iโ€™d also appreciate an answer to my two questions:

  • what was your research process?
  • how do you define an โ€œinfluencerโ€ in this context?
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ThemeSelection

Thanks,

A1. JavaScript Influencer
A2. Based on the popular framework they had created, supported, and few others to diversify as much as we can.

I request you to consider that a list can be different based on the compilation of the authors and we're just creating a list that can be helpful to other developers. We have not considering black, white, women, or man.

We're open to update and improve just request you all to not move this topic in another direction ๐Ÿ™

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devuser12399

Did you just disagree with the whole post for the sole reason that there's not enough black/women devs in the list?

You people make me sick.

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Acauรฃ Montiel

Oh come on!

I didn't see any dwarfs on your list, as well as I didn't see any blind, nor any paraplegic.

You're being very prejudiced and not inclusive in your choices.

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Sylwia Vargas

To your last point -> yes, it is a list. It is a product of someoneโ€™s research, a product that overlooked quite a few โ€œinfluencersโ€ (regardless of the influencer definition here - a person who creates content, who creates branded content, a creator of a framework, or a dev with high following). It is completely legitimate to ask for a clarification on the research process and on the definition of the key term used here. Why such a vulgar, completely unwarranted, reaction?

I see that you must be feeling very strongly about this since this is only your second comment in two years on this platform.

It seems like youโ€™re treating diversity and inclusion like a joke. I know that diversification of tech may feel threatening but itโ€™s happening and it is very much not โ€œHollywood bullshitโ€. In fact, diverse teams produce better outcomes and cater to larger audience. Which part of this is โ€œHollywood bullshitโ€ to you?

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The title is "javascript influencers to follow". Nothing to do with skin color or gender. It's about influence and Javascript. There are at least 3 people (and yes, one of them is a woman) who have more influence on me and I would put them on my list. But I didn't complain, because I'm not an author and the list is a personal opinion of an author, who put his time into that list.

What you could have done is make a comment, where you say "Thx for the list, here is my suggestion of people..."
In that way, you are providing some more content to the article.
When you say "you must be feeling very strongly about this", you are saying what? That I'm racist? Also that I'm scared of women and diversification. I mean, it is a joke.

We have 50% women in a company. Many of them are developers. Why would I care about that? As long as there are decent human beings and doing their job, they can be green aliens...

All I see is a list of individual influencers, nothing to do with team diversity, so I don't get why are you sending me these articles.

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Sylwia Vargas

Itโ€™s interesting that you view a genuine question about research process as complaining.

And, I just remarked on that you donโ€™t engage with folks on this platform and then write a very vulgar comment. Both are indicators of strong emotions. Thatโ€™s it ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

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Sylwia Vargas • Edited

So what is it in talking about gender and people of color that โ€œTRIGGERSโ€ you?

(also, if you bothered to check my comments, youโ€™d actually lose your bet)

And, again: a question about the research process and possible unconscious bias is not fighting, as much as itโ€™s not complaining. It is a question on how decisions are made and as a tech writer myself, I know folks owe transparency on these issues to their readers.

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jordanaf808

Thanks for bringing this topic up. It's an important point to make and I think deserves it's own article here! Yes it may cause some drama in the comments section, but we all need to know how to talk about touchy subjects constructively. Another point to bring up possibly, is 'confirmation bias'. Some people, whether knowingly or not, have little to no understanding or experience with racism or diversity, thus affecting their opinions on it. This problem of 'confirmation bias' exists in tech as well. Facebook or Youtube for example, want to keep you on their platform consuming content, so their algorithms will find stuff that you want to click on and hide stuff that you might not want to click on. This can very often lead to people living in an echo chamber, not necessarily of their own making, but very much encouraged by the various systems around us. It is up to us to not fall for that and keep an open, understanding mind. ... the more you know :)

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Elior Boukhobza

Not sure about the "influencer" moniker. These people because of their works, not because they are "influencing". To me, influencers would be if these people are frequently posting stuff on Twitter to "influence" their followers, and I don't think they do (at least some of them)

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Christian Kozalla

You sure each of them would consider themselves an influencer?

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Ravi Krishnappa

Thanks for this article. Keep sharing.
When I publish my favorite philosophers, I never think whether I should consider their age, gender, sex, orientation, kids, assets, bank balance, skin color, hair color, height, baldness, education, followers etc. I like them because I like their thought process.

Keep writing. Be honest.

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ThemeSelection

Thank you very much for your appriciation.๐Ÿ™‚

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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

Following already ๐Ÿ˜

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Django Janny

Little mistake : Samantha Ming has the website of Sara Vieira...

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ThemeSelection

Thank you for drawing our attention.๐Ÿ™‚ We have corrected it.

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shadowtime2000

Ryan Dahl is also the creator of the Deno JS/TS runtime which he works on full time now. That may be worth listing.

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ThemeSelection

Sure, we will. Thank you for suggesting.๐Ÿ™‚

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Ajay Patel

I follow almost all of them ๐ŸŽ‰

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Chittoji Murali Sree Krishna

Nice info, thanks for sharing this

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ThemeSelection

Thank you very much for your appreciation. We are glad that you find this list helpful.๐Ÿ™‚

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stefanovualto

Hi,

A few github links are wrong.

Thank you for the list!

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ThemeSelection

Thank you very much for pointing this out. We have corrected the links.
Thank you for your appreciation.๐Ÿ™‚

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anthony-grear

Pretty cool list- thanks!

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Anthony Peruso

Thanks for taking the time and putting this together itโ€™s extremely helpful! Itโ€™s always cool to see names and new influencers that Iโ€™ve never heard of before. Iโ€™m excited to see their contributions!

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ThemeSelection

You are welcome. We are glad that you find this list useful.๐Ÿ™‚

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Ali Nazari • Edited

[The things] to [do] in [currentYear] are everywhere ๐Ÿ˜

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blacklivesmatter