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Home Collections About Links « ← 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 → » 02 May 2022, 16:00 p.m. "I want to start contributing to open source": My (Current) Advice Advice Open Source and Free Culture/Advice Open Source and Free Culture Want to become a better programmer? Join the Recurse Center! In the virtual PyCon hallway track, a newcomer to the industry said he'd like to get into contributing to open source, and asked for my … Read More 26 Apr 2022, 20:30 p.m. Longish Things To Listen To Audiovisual Media Sometimes I exercise with friends via videocall, but when I want to exercise by myself, I often listen to stuff. I like having a mix of things to concentrate on and things I can half-listen … Read More 24 Apr 2022, 22:15 p.m. How I Thought About an In-Person Conference Choice COVID-19 Python Will I go to PyCon in person this year? Today is the day I decided whether to go; I had booked plane tickets and a hotel room, and was running out of time to cancel … Read More 21 Apr 2022, 12:15 p.m. Nurturing Volunteers: A Shortcut And An Event Template Advice Open Source and Free Culture/Advice Open Source and Free Culture A few suggestions to help you nurture volunteers in your projects. (Expanded from some advice I recently gave Ms. Boba, founder of BobaBoard -- she's a coaching client of mine.)Live Tour As First Draft: Extract … Read More 14 Apr 2022, 7:00 a.m. Management/Software And Scifi Book Recommendations Scifi/Fantasy Reading Management and Leadership In the last few days, two people have asked me for book recommendations. First: someone looking to use up an employer subsidy for books related to management and software engineering.VERY HIGH REC: Making Software: What … Read More 08 Apr 2022, 22:00 p.m. A Perspective On Pain Scales Medicine In a conversation with Sigrid Ellis, the topic of the traditional "how bad is the pain, on a scale from 1 to 10" doctor's office/hospital question came up, as did its flaws. Sigrid said something … Read More 24 Mar 2022, 8:00 a.m. A Pragmatic Truth About Self-Promotion Advice Some advice, deceptively, sounds great at first but then reveals itself to be maladaptive as one slides into different contexts.When I was young, I got the idea into my head that I should not brag … Read More 03 Mar 2022, 11:00 a.m. Intuitions Around Trust Levels Introspection An Ask MetaFilter question about cooking mustard greens included this note from the poster, on the provenance of their olive oil and their confidence that it was legitimate:The batch I use all the time, from … Read More 13 Feb 2022, 9:00 a.m. Conferences: Ask Your Venues And Hotels About Ventilation COVID-19 COVID-19 is airborne. That means that good ventilation in buildings reduces transmission. So when I'm thinking about going to an in-person event,* I want to know whether the hotel, restaurant, or convention venue has improved … Read More 26 Jan 2022, 10:30 a.m. Rebecca Fraimow, A Writer To Watch Reading Rebecca Fraimow is a scifi/fantasy author whose work I appreciate.I'm not alone. In the Hugo Award nominations for Best Short Story published in 2020, Fraimow's "This Is New Gehesran Calling" was ranked 14th. That may … Read More « ← 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 → » Sampler Ebook of Getting Unstuck: Advice For Open Source Projects Get the ebook Archives Recommended by Sumana 04 Nov 2013, 8:30 a.m. Comprehensions 06 May 2021, 15:12 p.m. What Would Open Source Look Like If It Were Healthy? Video & Transcript 02 May 2022, 16:00 p.m. "I want to start contributing to open source": My (Current) Advice Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder Get in touch for a free initial 30-minute chat: +1 (929) 255-4578 P.O. Box 721160 Jackson Heights, NY 11372 [email protected] @changesetllc This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License. RSS feed Atom feed