15 Dec 2014, 11:06 a.m.

A Code Review Group

I'm interested in piloting a peer code review group, structured like a writer's group. So next month I'm starting one out in New York City, starting with Hacker School alumni and participants, and I figured …

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28 Nov 2014, 19:25 p.m.

Attachment

From The Young Buddhists' Path To Success, by Venerable Master Hsing Yun, 1987, p. 25: What the Buddhist youth lack today is a sense of ambition. I'm turning this over in my head, half thoughtful …

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28 Nov 2014, 18:48 p.m.

Normal's Just A Setting On The Dryer

(Title from some lost-to-the-ages sage, I think.) I recently said to a friend that I'm pretty on-board with "Labels are for mailing things" and "Normal's just a setting on the dryer" (also said as "Normal: …

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18 Nov 2014, 15:21 p.m.

Using Beautiful Soup, Pystache, and Lunr.js for an Archival Site

My third week of my 2014 Hacker School batch, I decided to take on a project that I'd originally thought about doing a year before, during my first go at HS. Between April 2005 and …

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18 Nov 2014, 12:01 p.m.

A Node.js Project, And Deciding to Shelve It

In my second week of my 2014 Hacker School batch, I asked: What are red flags in scifi/fantasy magazines' calls for submissions? What words/phrases make you think "ew, avoid"? -- @brainwane, 3:48 PM - 13 …

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18 Nov 2014, 9:46 a.m.

Things I Learned About Drupal And Odd 404s

Back on October 7th, I offered "Some Tips On Domain Names And Hosting", and said: "So, next step: choosing a provider, spinning up a server, loading it up, and pointing my new domain name at …

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16 Nov 2014, 17:36 p.m.

Shelter and Memory

Mary Schmich wrote in that 1997 "wear sunscreen" advicedump, which has stuck with me and overall proven a good guide for adult Sumana: Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you …

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14 Nov 2014, 15:07 p.m.

Sometimes Paths Are Useful

I just finished a six-week batch at Hacker School. As an alumna, I had the option of asking to come back for three months or for a six-week minibatch, and I decided on the latter. …

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07 Nov 2014, 15:35 p.m.

Snapshot

Sometime in early 2010, I jotted down a few notes that I meant to blog at the time; I've now expanded them into the following entry. I was in between jobs; I think it was …

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04 Nov 2014, 12:04 p.m.

.illusion()

Last night one of my Hacker School peers was practicing sleight-of-hand with a card deck, and another peer walked over and said, "Oh, I used to run a magic tricks website." I waited with bated …

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