Re: Celebrating Tiny Milestones

Oh look, another wonderful post by Julia Evans, this time about “Celebrate tiny learning milestones”. In this post she explains how she thinks about her learning process as a series of tiny challenges, where learning happens one little discovery at a time. I think this is a really wonderful way to think about discovery. In […]

XPenguins are back!

Recently I’ve read an essay which left a strong impression on me, titled “Make Tiny Weird Software, Please! (all about desktop pets, old computer eras, and virtual toys)”. As the title suggests, the essay is a look back at “desktop pet” software. Desktop pets are programs that create small creatures in the computer desktop. These […]

All our online personas

I think the first time I “blogged” was back in 1999, when I was 19. I had recently joined college (UNICAMP – Brazil), and found out that I could make a personal webpage. I set up a bare bones green HTML page, added a list of favorite links, and started writing short text called “rants” […]

Journaling

When I was a kid, “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” left a lasting impression on me. The image that was burned in my mind was the journal of doctor Jones, Indy’s father. The entire story was about the character searching for a treasure based on the clues hand-written in that leather bound book. Scrawly […]

Well, that didn’t work

Another aborted attempt at blogging regularly. After that post on Sunday, I just couldn’t pull myself to write again. I wonder about my thinking process. When I am in the bus or train, my random thoughts always have this little “I should blog this” part — this also happens sometimes when I am taking a […]