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Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. #OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data.
New York City #NYC, Changeset Consulting, #RecurseCenter, #WisCon, #MetaFilter, #Python packaging, Geek Feminism, #Dreamwidth, harihareswara.net.
Hope you're having the best possible day.
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1065908/ "Turbulence at The Document Foundation" (TDF @tdforg@fosstodon.org being the home of LibreOffice @libreoffice@fosstodon.org )
Lots of ongoing discussion in fora at https://community.documentfoundation.org/c/board-discuss/26 .
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
@cjhuitt@wandering.shop I just recommended "The Hard Quarry" again and reread it. Looking forward to reading more of your fiction in the future!
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
am fiddling with a few elements from the International Year of Natural Fibres anthem @leonardr@wandering.shop and I developed in 2009 https://www.crummy.com/2009/12/31/0 to possibly turn them into a jingle for free child care for 2-year-olds in New York City https://nyc.gov/jingle
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
One thing I appreciate about serving on the board of @OtherwiseAward@wandering.shop : we can use our platform to help bring more attention to new works by people whose works we've honored in the past
https://otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/eligible-2025-works-by-past-winners-fellows
Some of these are short stories you can read for free online!
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
This is today!
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
Index page from https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb5dy4&seq=12 Roswell Alphonzo Benedict's 1901 book titled:
"Tam, Tom and Tim's Discussion of Free Trade as a Remedy for Trusts, The Money Question, Imperialism, The Colonial Question (Does the Constitution Follow the Flag?), Tariff Revision & Reciprocity"
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/calendar/
#USpol weather forecast: gusts of election news from Arkansas expected in a couple weeks, then from Georgia, New Jersey, and Virginia in April
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
boosting @beth4ma.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy for #NYC people to know:
"Folks in New York! I’m going to be in town next weekend and we’re meeting up at The Crown Inn in Brooklyn. Join us in building a progressive movement where AI works for all of us!
RSVP here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/meetbeth3-21 "
My friend Beth Andres-Beck, a software engineer, is running for Congress in Massachusetts. Want to talk with them about the software policies in their platform https://bethfordemocracy.com/platform/government-software ? This Saturday, 21 March, meet them at a free-to-attend event in Prospect Heights/Crown Heights.
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
I'm proud of my spouse @leonardr@wandering.shop for his decades of service to the world. The #Python Software Foundation recently recognized some of that service by naming him a @ThePSF@fosstodon.org Fellow, and giving him the Community Service Award.
A few photos of the ceremony at #PyConUS 2025: https://harihareswara.net/posts/2025/congratulating-leonard-psf-award/
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
At #PyConUS this year I learned that the most enduring one-line quote from my 2024 keynote
https://harihareswara.net/posts/2024/references-pycon-us-keynote/
-- the one multiple people quoted back to me, one offhandedly in the midst of talking about their own career -- was:
Infrastructure is a way we take care of each other at scale. (from the start of the talk)
or
Infrastructure is how we care for each other at scale. (from the end)
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. # OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data. New York City # NYC , Changeset Consulting, # RecurseCenter , # WisCon , # MetaFilter , # Python packaging, Geek Feminism, # Dreamwidth , harihareswara.net. Hope you're having the best possible day.
This year will be the 20th anniversary of @leonardr@botsin.space's #Python screen-scraping tool Beautiful Soup.
https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2024/celebrate-beautiful-soups-20th-anniversary/
Please contact me if you'd like to contribute to the celebration by any of:
* contributing to a "how Beautiful Soup was important to my life or career" anthology
* helping edit and publish that anthology
* funding printing the book
* throwing or speaking at a party on or around May 19th, 2024
* helping upgrade Leonard's PyCon travel so it's not just economy/coach
