Diversify Tech #400

Connecting underrepresented people in tech to career opportunities

Author

Veni Kunche
August 11, 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,
💼 Jazz at Lincoln Center is looking for an IT Help Desk Technician II in New York
📆 Commit Your Code is in TX from September 2nd–4th
⭐️ Scholarships to attend React Summit, JSNation, KubeCon and CloudNativeCon are available

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EVENTS

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SCHOLARSHIPS

  • JSNation US in New York. GitNation is offering 100 scholarships for underrepresented and underfinanced individuals in tech, as well as collaboration opportunities for content creators – selected applicants receive a free pass. Apply by Aug 31 at this link.

  • React Summit US in Manhattan, NY. GitNation is offering 100 scholarships for underrepresented and underfinanced individuals in tech, as well as collaboration opportunities for content creators – selected applicants receive a free pass. Apply by Aug 31 at this link.

  • Computer Science Research Conference Scholarships: ACM-W provides support for undergraduate and graduate students in computer science and related programs to attend computer science research conferences. For research conferences occurring between October 1st to November 30th scholarship applications must be submitted by August 15th.

  • Scholarship or Travel Fund to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America: The Dan Kohn scholarship program supports individuals from underrepresented or marginalized groups in tech and open source who want to attend CNCF events like KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. Applications are due for the travel funds by September 13. The deadline for the scholarship is October 4th.

ARTICLES & TUTORIALS

  • Getting Started with Anchor Positioning by Josh W. Comeau: For decades, one of the most notoriously-challenging problems on the web has been sticking one element to another element, for things like tooltips and nested menus. In this tutorial, Josh shares the most useful parts I’ve found from this modern CSS feature.

  • Mea Culpa - Dark Hours by Terry Godier: Terry built an app using Claude. It turned out to be strikingly similar to another open source project.

  • Python Memoization: This video explains memoization in Python, starting with what it is and how to implement it manually before showing how to use the @lru_cache as a cleaner solution.