The purring Machine
I found this amazing video on the Brazilian subreddit the other day: Apparently this was made for a theatre play called “the last invention”. I love the creepy steampunk vibe of this little robot.
I found this amazing video on the Brazilian subreddit the other day: Apparently this was made for a theatre play called “the last invention”. I love the creepy steampunk vibe of this little robot.
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 […]
Julian Evans wrote a wonderful blog post about tiny programming projects. They are things like scrapping the webpage of a festival to make a calendar, or generating crossword from text files. I too love writing these little, single use programs. I think this is why I like teaching intro to programming and doing programming contests […]
In the age of huge content curators (Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon) what good is blogging anymore? Today I read this great column by Cory Doctorow, where he describes how blogging has helped his writing career. In the post, he also makes an analogy that really reverberated with me: the word “blogging”, originally a portmanteau of […]
There is currently a court case in Japan fighting for the right for same-sex couples to marry, stating that the same-sex marriage ban infringes on the constitutional equality of rights among people. I hope they succeed! But unfortunately, this week the government lawyers apparently came up with several lame claims about why same-sex couples should […]