I’m very pleased to announce that the App Camp For Girls board has reached a decision on what’s happening next. More in this post.
AC4G has selected Nova Code Collective, Digital Youth Divas, and @blackgirlscode to receive assets to extend the vision and mission of the organization. Join us in congratulating them! https://t.co/WPYHpE9pL2
— App Camp For Girls (@AppCamp4Girls) May 4, 2020
Love this on why it’s great to write blog posts:
In fact, your blog indirectly says a few extra things about you. First, it shows that you have the discipline to take the time to structurally and understandably write down a solution to a (complex) problem. Or that you take to the time to voice your opinion on a subject in a clear and concise way.
I found this very true the first time around in self-employment over at my old blog. I essentially found plenty of work for five years through word of mouth and through my blog reaching folks. It even led to living overseas for a time!
And, regarding teaching as learning:
It happens ever so often that while I’m trying to explain something in a blog post, I notice that I have a hard time putting it down in clear and consise words. Typically this is because I apparently don’t fully understand what I’m trying to write down. In these situations, I dive a bit further into the topic to fill the gaps in my understanding. And this is great! I’m actually learning new things while I’m writing down something that I thought I already knew.
So true.
Sometimes it’s amazing how much an image can shape your understanding of the world and your place in it.
Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Map is the only flat map of the entire surface of the Earth which reveals our planet as one island in one ocean, without any distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas. It helps us to view the world as one interdependent system. pic.twitter.com/8jXnrlskDa
— Schumacher Center (@Center4NewEcon) April 29, 2020
[They] did more […] than just introduce a new keyboard. A new keyboard alone would have been an anticlimax, as [they] realized. Computer manufacturers have been making good keyboards for years. So [they] also promised to give a free keyboard to all current owners of […], and to those who buy remaining inventories of […] with old keyboards.
This generous offer was perhaps the biggest surprise of the day. Plenty of computer companies have made mistakes in the past, but very few have offered free retrofits on such a scale. Still, the offer wasn’t solely an outburst of altruism. It both protects and reinforces [their] all-important reputation for dependability and service. And as [their] publicist confided, it’s also [their] way of acknowledging that it should have designed the […] with the new keyboard in the first place.
Compute! Issue 53, October 1984, regarding IBM’s PCjr
Finally, we get to the real pain in the ass, the debugging of potentially one or more bad RAM chips.
The saga of reviving a 1980s portable computer, continued.
You bet I did. Also probably at least that many from iCloud. Been moving more stuff to self-hosted Syncthing for inter-device file sync.
I started my links page back up, including an RSS feed, which currently just lists my starred projects on GitHub (with more to come). I also open sourced a small Python script for the data behind this so that others can self-publish their data.
Week two in the nephews LEGO Masters challenge was a robot. Meet DocBot 9000, bearing a medicine missile and oxygen tank, and who took me about two hours in a crunchtime just before our weekly call. 😬
I acquired an 80s-era portable 386-based computer and I’ll be blogging up my discoveries. Come along for the ride!
Ok, bit of a false alarm. Prompted by Curtis, I built my own testing keyboard and confirmed that it doesn’t get access to text unless it’s the active keyboard. 🤔
I say that because I have to assume Apple is smart enough to make sure keyboards can't run in the BG, and also can't insert gesture recognizers onto other keyboards. Otherwise there is no way for it to get the taps (isn't like the system tells the KB someone pressed “A”)
— Curtis Herbert (@parrots) April 23, 2020
The best I can figure is that something knew which store I was at (not difficult, particularly since I use Foursquare) and then, based on profiles of me, knew I’d probably be interested in particular meat snacks (likely correct!)