for PyCon 2018 in Cleveland, the city of my birth. It was wonderful! So many great people... and Saturday night Cleveland's Terminal Tower was lit in Python blue and gold... and Sunday my small donation to the Python Software Foundation turned into a chance to have lunch, along with several …

I’ve been stumbling upon a wide variety of promising, and free, Python instruction the past few weeks, something for almost everyone...

This week, a popular coursera introduction to Python begins: Programming for Everybody (Python). There are no pre-requisites, and you can complete the class simply using a web browser …

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.

My Outreach Program internship with Mozilla QA was, like all Outreach internships, a three-month internship, sponsored and funded by the open source project each Outreach intern works with. I participated in the December 2014 – March 2015 round.

My work focused on early development of the Firefox UI Tests, an ongoing …

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 …

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 …

Sixteen days ago I wrote that I intended to blog more often... I think I even remembered that through much of last week. Then I dove into the Firefox Puppeteer libraries, and the tests for those libraries, and now it’s already Friday, February 6th, in most of the world …

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 …

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 …

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 …