Something amazing happened to me recently! I started knitting again, something that I have not done for years! I used to really love knitting as a kid and a teenager even. I knitted sweaters for my neighbor’s baby and even sweaters, hats and scarfs for myself. Just asked my mom to find a picture of […]
Not all opinions
For all readers a bit less “in” the tech scene: an interesting thing happened in the last few days. First Paul Graham tweeted: If Trump wins, I’m joining the Resistance. — Paul Graham (@paulg) October 11, 2016 Understandably, people asked him to start by denouncing one of his partners, Peter Thiel, a known Trump supporter. […]
Coding, Reading, and Writing: Integrated Instruction in Written Language — Steven L. Tanimoto
Steven created a programming system called Kokopelli’s World, a programming system to teach children with a learning disability about coding and writing, at the same time! This system, based on Google Blokly, is aimed at children that have oral language ability and some reading ability, and had children play with Kokopelli’s world for 90 minutes […]
On codes of conduct
I know it has been forever since I wrote something! It is summer and I am working at MSR and I have picked up few new side projects, and more excuses 🙂 But this topic has been on my to write list for a long time, so let’s go and talk about the idea of […]
Using (Bio)Metrics to Predict Code Quality Online — Sebastian C. Müller
How to write good code? We have code reviews, automatic quality approaches, but reviews take a lot of time and effort and automatic approaches can result in many false positives. What to do? What about measuring a developers cognitive load? From previous research, we know that cognitive load can be estimated using biometric sensors. Sebastian […]
