Diversify Tech #387

Connecting underrepresented people in tech to career opportunities

Author

Veni Kunche
May 12, 2026

Hi! Welcome to Diversify Tech's Professional Edition. This newsletter is for underrepresented people in tech; specifically curated for mid-senior level folks. Every Tuesday, we share jobs, events, and other career opportunities.

In this week's issue,
💼 EdReports is looking for a Software Engineer and Movement Labs is looking for a Data Engineer
📆 PG Data Conference is happening in Chicago
⭐️ Sheri Byrne-Haber writes about getting developers to care about accessibility

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ARTICLES & TUTORIALS

Getting Developers to Care about Accessibility: Carrots and Sticks
Sheri Byrne-Haber explains why accessibility falls to the bottom of every sprint and outlines a practical mix of incentives and structural consequences to make accessible development the default behavior across engineering teams.

Hackers Are Actively Exploiting a Bug in cPanel, Used by Millions of Websites
Zack Whittaker reports on a critical cPanel vulnerability that lets hackers bypass login to gain full server access, affecting millions of websites worldwide.

A Child's New "Best Friend"
Julie Carpenter examines how AI companion toys marketed to children as young as three use relational design to simulate friendship, raising concerns about data consent, developmental impact, and an industry outpacing its own accountability structures.

Why Your "Simple Deploy" Turned Into a Week of Infrastructure Work
Manish Shivanandhan explains why deployment complexity grows as systems scale, how teams unintentionally take on platform engineering work, and when adopting a Platform as a Service makes sense for production teams.

Next.js FINALLY has Page Transitions Now
Ankita Kulkarni walks through how to use the new View Transition API in Next.js with React's built-in ViewTransition component to add smooth page and route animations with zero JavaScript overhead.