Sumana Harihareswara @brainwane@mastodon.social

Today's the primary elections in NY State.

Voted: Cynthia Nixon, Jumaane Williams, Zephyr Teachout.

@andrhia https://www.npr.org/2016/06/27/483420607/to-stop-police-lawsuits-reformers-want-officers-to-get-insurance did you already see this? It's a few years old

so I know intellectually that it's good for me to get out of my own apartment, work at the coworking space, get face-to-face time in with colleagues

but I just stopped for a beverage and heard someone near the coffee say "it's like LinkedIn for brands"

In New York City on Monday, Sept. 17? You could come to a free Recurse Center https://www.recurse.com public tech talk by Allison Kaptur http://akaptur.com/ "about how using Mypy, an optional static type checker for #Python, has changed how she writes Python". RSVP by 4pm ET on Fri, Sept. 14th.

https://www.recurse.com/blog/141-localhost-14-allison-kaptur-on-mypy-in-practice

#DWTips A list of some power user tips for dreamwidth.org -- belated notes from a #WisCon panel. https://wiscon.dreamwidth.org/141151.html

Did you know Dreamwidth lets you blog in Markdown? And has image hosting?

@xor hey so I am thinking of filing a FOIA request about https://twitter.com/peterkarman/status/1038174750542053376 ... I'd appreciate any "here's why you shouldn't do this" warnings or pointers to similar "tell me the process/reasoning behind this decision" requests I could clone and modify

New blog post: https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2018/09/11/0 a short realization re: Captain Picard and management

I hope you'll read this thread about the personal meaning of India's historic court decision this past week ending #Section377. https://twitter.com/thepriyaarora/status/1037619291988926464

New blog post: https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2018/09/10/0 "Coming Back to My Senses" -- driving, dressing, sketching, and practicing being embodied

@gaditb When I see that Adrienne Porter Felt is involved I have a lot more trust than this user seems to. https://mastodon.social/@wakest/100672642667767240

New blog post: "Code Review Play at RubyConf, and Think Tank Fiction" about narrative fiction in tech conference presentations

https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2018/09/04/0

Partially a reply to http://crookedtimber.org/2018/09/03/think-tank-fiction/ by Maria Farrell

one of my favorite catchy labor songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8OKnYp6hbA "We Do The Work," Jon Fromer

http://rubyconf.org/scholarships 11:59PT tonight (Aug 30) is the deadline to apply for financial aid to come to RubyConf (Los Angeles, mid-November).

RubyConf provides onsite childcare & lactation room, plus some live captioning: http://rubyconf.org/faq

about 13 years ago @leonardr agreed to co-write a Ruby book despite not really knowing Ruby at the time https://www.crummy.com/2008/06/17/0

this November I follow in that tradition: co-presenting a port of "Code Review, Forwards and Back" with Jason Owen https://jasonaowen.net/ at RubyConf in Los Angeles http://rubyconf.org/program#session-704

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rubyconf
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Aug 27

The day is here — our RubyConf 2018 program is now live!

http://rubyconf.org/program

Note: if there’s anything you see that needs fixing, please let us know at rubyconf@rubycentral.org

Can’t wait to see you all in November in LA!

The #PyGotham 2018 schedule is now up. https://2018.pygotham.org/talks/schedule/

"Python Grab Bag: A Set of Short Plays" will be Saturday just before lunch. https://2018.pygotham.org/talks/python-grab-bag-a-set-of-short-plays/

Coming from out of town? Three hotels have special room rates for PyGotham: https://2018.pygotham.org/venue/