Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
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 …
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 …