Episode 7: Sumana Harihareswara

03/24/16 • 53 min

Project management, open source and social justice as tools of empowerment, self-image as a coder, how Sumana got into open source and why, learning programming (and its culture and tools) as an adult, computer science vs software engineering, managers as sysadmins of social infrastructure, media preservation and digitally archiving a literary estate, fixed vs. growth mindsets, debugging as a hero's journey, the Recurse Center, Hamilton.

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Hyperlocal Chicago digital collections, a Wordpress/Drupal/Omeka smackdown, multisite Wordpress as a library service, Agile(ish) project management making lives better, why we love staging servers, the woes of front-end testing (with a rant about our frenemy Selenium), and Lars von Trier.

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Episode 8: Becky Yoose

How (and why) to write better documentation, distinguishing Australian outback hats from fedoras, why tech management is a great path for masochists, easy ways to lose your best staff, why middle management is the most subversive position, differences in technology planning in public vs. academic libraries, emotional labor, building communities.