Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

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Audiovisual Media

04 Sep 2018, 11:38 a.m.

Code Review Play at RubyConf, and Think Tank Fiction

  Jason Owen and I will co-present "Code Review, Forwards and Back" at RubyConf in Los Angeles, November 13-15 2018. We'll update and slightly lengthen the version we performed at PyGotham last year. If you'll …

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27 Jun 2018, 17:50 p.m.

Songs And Books That Have Helped Me Get Through News Despair

When I feel despondent about my country and my world, a few things that help or have helped: Rebecca Solnit's nonfiction book Hope in the Dark (which I still have not finished) which makes the …

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29 Dec 2017, 11:44 a.m.

Blockchain and Bitcoin, Dar Williams, And So On

Sipping my soda water at the saloon across the street before the Untitled Kondabolu Brothers Project show Wednesday night, I struck up a conversation with a guy who works in an art gallery, and with …

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11 Nov 2017, 7:14 a.m.

Video of Our PyGotham Play

You can now watch the 22-minute video of the play I discussed last month. "Code Review, Forwards and Back", co-written by and co-starring Jason Owen and me, directed by Jonathan Galvez. Thanks to: Kenneth Durril …

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25 Jan 2016, 11:08 a.m.

On "Twin Peaks"

Leonard and I are watching Twin Peaks. This is my first David Lynch experience, and as of Season 2 Episode 15, here are some thoughts, some of which are spoilers. In the conversation we had …

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03 Jan 2016, 12:25 p.m.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

I saw the original trilogy many years ago and just don't remember a lot of stuff. I was maybe sixteen; I missed my window for really loving it, in keeping with that old saying, "The …

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28 Dec 2015, 14:19 p.m.

More Zen Cho, and History in Hamilton

People who read this blog will probably like the stuff I've been posting on the Geek Feminism group blog. I wrote a bit more about Zen Cho's Sorcerer to the Crown in October, covering "Cruciat-ish, …

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28 Dec 2015, 14:06 p.m.

What Software Freedom Conservancy Does, Why It's Important, And Why You Should Give

I appreciate the work of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a nonprofit that helps free and open source software projects. Right now they need 2,500 people to become Supporters to keep their work going. So I …

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29 Oct 2015, 9:13 a.m.

A Few More Fanvid Forebearers

Next week I'm speaking to a college class about my video art piece "Pipeline" which critiques the tech industry's hypocritical diversity narrative (making-of). When I posted the vid in May I also posted a list …

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28 Oct 2015, 11:15 a.m.

A Month, Ish

I have been fairly low-volume on this blog lately. Some stuff I've been up to: I wrote a Geek Feminism piece about feminist tech demos I saw at a showcase in New York City. I …

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