Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2016

14 Jul 2016, 13:08 p.m.

A Great Explanation of WebDriver and Browser Automation

Maja Frydrychowicz's "Untangling WebDriver and the Browser Automation Landscape I Live In" is a delightful, very satisfying read. It covers the difference between the W3C WebDriver specification and Selenium WebDriver, explains their history and future, …

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04 Jul 2016, 16:58 p.m.

Five Loosely Connected Things

Unexpected beauty: There's a little stretch of quiet waterfront walkway with benches tucked away behind the Astoria Costco. It's just north of Rainey Park. Fierce spycrafty women: At the launch party for Genevieve Valentine's new …

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30 Jun 2016, 11:19 a.m.

Ambition And Failure

People who are trying to make stuff often feel like we're failing. Ira Glass's articulation of the gap between taste and skill gets at this. He suggests making more stuff, for deadlines, for others, as …

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21 Jun 2016, 12:28 p.m.

On A Fraught Word

(This is a blog post specifically aimed at people who aren't in or from the United States and who have conversations with people from the US, especially online. Also, content note: I explain what lynching …

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13 Jun 2016, 20:51 p.m.

Pulse

I am deeply grieving the Pulse massacre. Malinda Lo: "In the Club" Alfred Soto: "Only When I'm Dancing Can I Feel This Free: Queer liberation, dreams, and self-discovery on the dance floor" Sigrid Ellis: "The …

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23 May 2016, 10:02 a.m.

Two OSCON Conversations, And A Trip Report Between Them

Conversation the last night of OSCON, reconstructed from memory: "So, Neil Young --" "The singer-songwriter?" "Yeah." "Man, what a white guy name." "Are you impugning Neil Young? That man sells organic eggs at the farmer's …

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21 May 2016, 17:39 p.m.

Inessential Weirdnesses in Open Source Software (OSCON 2016)

"Inessential Weirdnesses in Open Source Software": written version of a speech I delivered at the OSCON conference, Wednesday, 18 May, 2016, Austin, Texas. O'Reilly will be posting the video behind a paywall sometime in June …

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17 May 2016, 19:33 p.m.

Zulip & Good Code Review

As Changeset Consulting I've recently done some tech writing work for the Zulip open source project (check out my pull requests for the nitty-gritty). And I've gotten to work with Tim Abbott, Zulip's maintainer, including …

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10 May 2016, 20:18 p.m.

Crossover Edition

Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing a series of Black Panther comic books. I just stopped into a New York City comic book shop and they were sold out of #1 in the sequence; tomorrow they'll get …

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05 May 2016, 14:08 p.m.

I Miss You, Frances

You died ten years ago today. I wish I could show you what your kids and their spouses have been up to in the last ten years. I like to believe you'd be pretty proud. …

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