topic: learning

Everything I’ve written on the subject, from the beginning of this version of the site.

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

2019
- Dec
  - 04
    - On Remembering Scripture — JOURNAL
      
      Time to stop leaning so hard on search.
2020
- May
  - 08
    - This Week I Learned #3 — JOURNAL
      
      Less reading this week… because more composing.
- Aug
  - 19
    - 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.
    - 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. 😅
  - 29
    - Can You Recommend a Book on This? — JOURNAL
      
      Probably not, unfortunately. Maybe I can write something up, though?
- Sep
  - 20
    - 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?
  - 26
    - 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.
- Oct
  - 25
    - 10:03❈ — NOTES
      
      Learned how to use the INDEX and MATCH functions in spreadsheets this morning. I’m always amazed at how powerful spreadsheets are — and all with relatively simple tools.
    - 21:30❈ — NOTES
      
      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.
2021
- Jan
  - 18
    - 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.
- Feb
  - 01
    - I Am Not An Original Thinker — JOURNAL
      
      And it turns out that’s actually totally fine.
  - 13
    - A Useful Approach to Problem-Solving — JOURNAL
      
      (It’s useful to me, at least.)
  - 28
    - 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.
- Mar
  - 13
    - Introducing “Heuristics for Good Software Design” — JOURNAL
      
      A series of posts in which I explain how I think about effective software design.

Sym·poly·mathesy

by Chris Krycho

topic: learning

2019

Dec

04

On Remembering Scripture — JOURNAL

2020

May

08

This Week I Learned #3 — JOURNAL

Aug

19

09:42❈ — NOTES

21:06❈ — NOTES

29

Can You Recommend a Book on This? — JOURNAL

Sep

20

18:21❈ — NOTES

26

Things I Was Wrong About: Types — JOURNAL

Oct

25

10:03❈ — NOTES

21:30❈ — NOTES

2021

Jan

18

14:26↩︎ — ❈ — NOTES

Feb

01

I Am Not An Original Thinker — JOURNAL

13

A Useful Approach to Problem-Solving — JOURNAL

28

10:04↩︎ — ❈ — NOTES

Mar

13

Introducing “Heuristics for Good Software Design” — JOURNAL