Kevin Simler

@KevinSimler

Looking for folks with homemade worldviews. Let's think together. Book:

San Francisco, CA
Vrijeme pridruživanja: ožujak 2011.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    15. ožu 2019.

    On a related note, and in all seriousness: I hereby invite you to unfollow me. Please, if you'd consider it, you'd be doing us both a favor by following through. Life's too short to waste time on things you're not really into. Let's all tighten up our feeds, shall we?

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    Higgledy Piggledy Iowa caucuses Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Biden and Yang Bernie and Warren will Split all the lefties while Thomas F. Steyer goes Out with a bang!

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  3. prije 2 sata

    The double dactyl is a playful verse form, similar to a limerick but *much* harder to write:

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  5. 26. sij

    This (from Paul below) was my favorite response Surprised no one mentioned the two I’m waiting for: male circumcision in the US (we still do this?!) and eating animals (once we have synthetic meat, if not earlier)

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  6. 26. sij

    What preference falsification cascades are you patiently waiting for?

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    24. sij
    Odgovor korisnicima i sljedećem broju korisnika:

    “Omg, Becky, the anthropologist is SO gullible, you are going to totally spit your kava, so the next thing we told him was” —every “primitive tribe” everywhere

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  8. 11. sij

    Where can I pay for Adulting-as-a-Service?

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  9. 10. sij

    Anyway, that’s all for now. More later I hope. Thanks for letting me brain-dump!

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  10. 10. sij

    (Also, I realize that one person’s “bottom layer” is another person’s towering abstraction. Even raw HTML is impossible far from the metal. But at least it’s a consistent/coherent/portable technology, unlike much of what gets written on top of it.)

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  11. 10. sij

    I don’t know how to strike the right balance between the precision and intelligibility of low-level tooling (e.g. HTML) vs. the power of high-level tooling (e.g. a template language + CSS). How important is it these days to understand the web from the bottom up?

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  12. 10. sij

    Today I showed him the Chrome “inspect element”/dev tools console. It’s great to be able to tweak things and watch the page react instantly. But it’s also crazy just how complicated the modern web has become.

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  13. 10. sij

    I hope this is something he’ll come to understand differently as he gets older. What a compliment it is to be copied! But I also remember liking that feeling of ownership when I was younger. I wanted to slap a © on everything I made! I wonder where that came from.....

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  14. 10. sij

    One interesting conversation we had last week was around copyright. He was worried about other people stealing his drawings! I tried to explain the difference between the copyright/patent mentality and the CC/open source mentality. He 100% wanted his IP locked down 😆

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  15. 10. sij

    I remember this was a huge creative avenue for me as well, in high school. I never had cool clothes or dyed hair or stickers on my backpack, but I made a lot of fun websites. That was my preferred form of self-expression.

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  16. 10. sij

    ... like building a web page. Last week I thought it would be cool to show him how to build a website/homepage. A place where he can put links to his Scratch games, but also his drawings, music, etc. Plus his own domain name, because that makes it 10x more fun.

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  17. 10. sij

    I actually find it really hard to collaborate in Scratch. But it doesn’t matter because it’s great for small projects + easy to “view source” and learn from others. So my nephew is already off to the races, leveling up on his own. And we can collaborate on many other things.

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  18. 10. sij

    Scratch has a host of problems, sure. But any “real” language makes you jump through so many meaningless hoops just to move something around on a canvas. And by that point you’ve lost all your momentum and most of your motivation. I wish I had scratch as a kid!

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  19. 10. sij

    We’re currently jamming around with Scratch (). Holy shit, what an awesome tool. It’s a sprite-first programming language! Effortless to get your own drawing up on the screen, dancing around and bouncing off the walls.

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  20. 10. sij

    One of the main thing my nephew wants to make is VIDEO GAMES!!!! I think this is awesome and one of the best “gateway drugs” into getting hooked on code. It was certainly my gateway drug back in junior high/high school. Many of my friends have similar (fond) memories.

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  21. 10. sij

    I’m especially in awe of how quickly/decisively my nephew chooses what to do next. I feel I’ve lost a lot of that spontaneity. I hem and haw over every little decision. It’s exhausting! (Is this most adults, or just me?)

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