Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
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, …
Some writing is persuasive; it aims to cause you to believe or do something. Some is expository; it aims to cause you to understand something. A lot of tech writing is persuasive or expository. Some …
From yesterday's JavaScript explorations: "I have now discovered that element.innerText works in Chrome and in Epiphany but not in Firefox." "This is why you use jQuery." And now I do! My "presidential" "speech" generator is …
When part of the joy of a place is that gender doesn't matter, it's hard to write about that joy, because calling attention to gender is the opposite of that. I want to illustrate this …
On Sunday I wrote my first Twitter bot, with a bit of help from Leonard. (A Hacker School colleague inferred, understandably, that Leonard and I just write Twitter bots on the weekend, to relax.) Then …