I also don’t see my role as helping him learn how to *program* per se. It’s more like I want him to be as creatively powerful as possible, and writing code is one way to do that.
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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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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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(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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Anyway, that’s all for now. More later I hope. Thanks for letting me brain-dump!
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I don’t know. As a teenager I slapped a huge watermark in front of everything. Nowadays I upload pictures I’ve taken purposely to sites where people can use them for free even without a credit and it gives me so much joy. (Even though I might message them and ask politely if…
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… they might give credit to me. But I’ve would be still fine if they didn’t.)
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Open source doesn't prevent attribution
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