I may also have written on this on earlier versions of my website:
2006 – 2011 (link coming soon!)- did not have a blog!
2012 – 2013 (link coming soon!)2014 – 2019
topic: learning
Everything I’ve written on the subject, from the beginning of this version of the site.
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2019
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Dec
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04
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On Remembering Scripture — JOURNAL
Time to stop leaning so hard on search.
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2020
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May
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08
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This Week I Learned #3 — JOURNAL
Less reading this week… because more composing.
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Aug
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19
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09:42 ❈ — NOTES
I can’t really listen to podcasts or watch talks and work at the same time. I also can’t watch talks and walk or run at the same time. What I can do is listen to talks and walk or run at the same time. But there are a lot of great talks I want to learn from!
Solution: youtube-dl plus Overcast Premium’s file uploads feature. Boom.
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21:06 ❈ — NOTES
Almost fifteen years since the first time I encountered an RSS feed (and therewith XML), I actually spent the time tonight to learn what
<![CDATA[...]]>is.Related: I believe I have (finally!) finished fixing my Atom feed output all the way. 😅
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29
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Can You Recommend a Book on This? — JOURNAL
Probably not, unfortunately. Maybe I can write something up, though?
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Sep
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20
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18:21 ❈ — NOTES
I have a problem, and it’s called too many interests. I started reading Boyd’s Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra today, because I’ve long wanted to fill this gap from my college math. But maybe I should finish other in-progress books first?
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26
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Things I Was Wrong About: Types — JOURNAL
Because it would do us all good to be a little more honest about where we’ve changed our minds or simply been mistaken.
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Oct
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25
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10:03 ❈ — NOTES
Learned how to use the
INDEXandMATCHfunctions in spreadsheets this morning. I’m always amazed at how powerful spreadsheets are — and all with relatively simple tools. -
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Just finished reading Zeynep Tüfeçki’s utterly masterful Twitter and Tear Gas. The book is astonishing. It gave me better frames for thinking about a great many things I’ve been thinking about for a long time now, and it is a masterful work of academic scholarship presented in a way that just about anyone could read.
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2021
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Jan
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18
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14:26↩︎ — ❈ — NOTES
Notional Machines and Introductory Programming Education is an outstanding survey — focused on a key element in teaching year-1 CS students: “notional machines” (which are not the same as “mental models”!). Teaching is a huge part of my job, and this was quite illuminating.
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Feb
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01
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I Am Not An Original Thinker — JOURNAL
And it turns out that’s actually totally fine.
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13
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A Useful Approach to Problem-Solving — JOURNAL
(It’s useful to me, at least.)
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28
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10:04↩︎ — ❈ — NOTES
I love Jessica Kerr’s One key trick to becoming a wizard developer: it’s a great combo of summarizing “how to do this” with a “worked example.” Once you realize you can do this, it becomes a kind of superpower — and when I share it with mentees, it’s often a 💡 🤯 moment for them.
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Mar
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13
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Introducing “Heuristics for Good Software Design” — JOURNAL
A series of posts in which I explain how I think about effective software design.
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May
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16:01 ❈ — NOTES
When you start reading an introductory tutorial with a section title like “<some topic> in a Nutshell”… and the third paragraph is about ⅔ incomprehensible to you. 😅 Time to go see if I can get my head at least a little bit around how functor modules work in OCaml. (And yes: put the relevant bits into Anki!)
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Jun
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01
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Miscellaneous Updates — JOURNAL
Or: it has been months since I wrote anything, so I’m scratching that itch.
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