a May Eve musing

Hooray for Open Source Bridge! It was at last year’s conference that I learned of the upcoming Ascend Project, and I’ve just learned the talk I’d proposed this year with my fellow Ascenders Jessica Canepa and Adam Okoye has been accepted.

Whan that Aprille with his shoures …
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Early Spring

Spring has arrived early here in Portland, and so, it seems, has the official end of my Outreach Program internship, while I still have at least this blog post to write, and one more Firefox UI test conversion to finish up, and maybe a library method to polish off for …

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Happy Year of the Wood Ewe!

It is the first full day of the lunar new year here on the left coast of America. In some places, it’s considered the year of the goat. Tibetans, I read, are celebrating the new year of the female wood sheep. I live with Buddhists of a Tibetan school …

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Turn! Turn! Turn!

Updates to testdaybot are nearly ready for a maiden run! And so I turn my attention to firefox-ui-tests. This is a very different project, one that several people from Mozilla’s A-Team are actively working on, and still early in its development. I’m beginning by looking at what preferences …

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Forcing Pushes, Surrounded by JavaScript Callbacks

and now let us welcome the new year—full of things that have never been
Rilke

The past two weeks, chopped up by the holly days, whose traditional end, the twelfth day of Christmas, is today, have been a whirl. Today may be the only day I’ve managed to …

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My OP Internship Begins

This round of GNOME’s Outreach Program internships officially began December 9th, but mine really began the week before, when Mozilla staff from around the world arrived here in Portland, of all places, for one of Mozilla’s “work weeks.” It was wonderful, after chatting on IRC through much of …

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