I spent a day at Hacker School without a working pair of headphones recently. So I spent about three hours pairing, which I loved and which I'm going to repeat every day that I can. …
So, there are random non-programming reasons why I didn't feel like I made much progress yesterday -- I tried working in a beanbag chair (no good for Sumana), I drank coffee too early in the …
Mel Chua visited Hacker School last week and especially entreatied us to blog about bad days, days we felt demoralized or unproductive. It helps her with her research. Well, Mel, here you go. It's a …
Yesterday I tried to diagnose and fix a bug in an open source project. I got discouraged because of a few factors, so I'm noting down a few things I ran into, for future Sumana …
The Hacker School application form asks you to provide some code you've written so the faculty can look at it. I wrote a game: "Where on the Oregon Trail is Carmen Sandiego?" It is a …
Or: you are an expert if you can save people time. Late in 2011, I found out that one of my colleagues, a whip-smart and infinitely organized administrator, wanted to know more about how the …
I saw Apollo 13 when it came out in theaters in 1995, and I don't think I'd seen it again until the other night, when Leonard and I rewatched it. Leonard and I both thought …
Sumana Harihareswara at Open Tech NYC 2013 from Coalition for Queens on Vimeo. Sumana Harihareswara introduces you to your Open Tech neighbors. Who's making open source software, open data, open hardware, and open culture? And …
Just read Jo Walton's Among Others, and then of course the spoiler thread on her LiveJournal. I absolutely see why it won the Hugo and Nebula. It's about how the love of speculative fiction can …
If you've read my past posts on Geek Feminism, you've seen me thinking about how I learn. I have worked 15 years in the software industry as a tech writer/salesperson/tester/manager. And I have about 25 …
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