Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Congratulations to all six of the Wikimedia's chosen participants in the current round of FOSS Outreach Program for Women internships. I'm especially glad I was able to help Maria Pacana and Be Birchall, my colleagues …
I am working on another silly project, and it led me to look at winners and finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. There are way more colons in the titles of those books …
I hereby recommend to you the super-readable, witty, on-point analysis of cosmetics ad claims at "Brightest Bulb In the Box: Beauty for Critical Minds". Much thanks to terriko for the link to BBItB! If you …
Check out this Vienna Teng live set in which she performs a synth-backed "Whatever You Want." I'm just entranced and have been listening to the set over and over. I especially find myself caught by …
After the first week I spent at Hacker School, I worried that I wasn't spending enough time on improving my programming skills. So I started using Project Hamster to track chunks of time that I …
I've been writing and maintaining unit tests for my project. But only on Thursday did a colleague's presentation remind me that I could run a code coverage tool to check which code paths my tests …
I was playing with stdin/argv because Leonard suggested I improve Missing from Wikipedia to make it more Unixy and interoperable with other scripts and systems present and future. Right now it demands that you tell …
On Friday, while trying to work with standard input (stdin) and command-line arguments (argv), I accidentally wrote an almost-quine (a program that produces its own source code as output). I've removed a few debugging print …
"Missing from Wikipedia" (code) makes me happy. I presented about it yesterday at Hacker School, asked a fellow HSer to discuss his critique of my code, and - live! on stage! - merged his pull …
This week I wrote a tool I currently call "missing from Wikipedia" although the name may change. You feed it a list of people's names and the language Wikipedia you want to check, and it …