Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
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 …
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. …
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 …
I know some Russian, some French, and some Kannada, and every once in a while, my vocabulary fractures and I say a word from some other language. "Nodu" is Kannada for "look" (imperative second-person), and …
Today I led an intermediate Git workshop at Hacker School, with occasional help from more experienced Git users. We covered: cherry-picking versus merging a commit from one branch to another git blame [filename] to see …
Found in an email I sent a few years ago: "I'm freaking 30 now, so I have decided to be Mature, stop feeling bad that I don't learn stuff well on my own, and take …
Here are some things I recently learned or re-learned about setting up your own website. Domain names There are a ton of domain name registrars out there and a lot of them are subsidiaries of …
This week, alumni like me get to spend time at Hacker School. Since I work on MediaWiki-related documentation and I've never programmed in PHP before, I decided to start understanding just enough PHP to be …
Some get-togethers turn into dominance displays -- participants see each other as someone to defeat. We often see this pattern in technical spaces, such as conferences, mailing lists, programming classes, and code review. Skud's 2009 …
This week I started remembering JavaScript (two years ago I picked up a little bit). A few fun things: I understand @horse_js better now! I sort of understand the differences among Node, npm, ClojureScript, CoffeeScript, …