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Author of "Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World", 📖 Also: NYT mag, Wired, Smithsonian, Mother Jones 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

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    Jun 26

    "What coding really teaches children": Ontario's adding programming in primary schools. The asked my thoughts. Le voila! tl;dr -- I'm divided. Coding can be joyful, maddening, creative, so 👍 🦑🛸. Adding to teacher load is 👎 though (1/2)

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  2. 10 hours ago

    Among the many, many, many remixes of this song, this one is pretty great

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    And they don’t stop coming!!!!!
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    15 hours ago

    Other books in the news: 's Working in Public is "a fascinating book for which she spoke to hundreds of open source coders" about the realities of maintenance, according to in

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  4. 12 hours ago

    On the strange tale of the phone line that does nothing but play Smashmouth’s “All Star”: Also: While writing this post, started wondering — what *is* it about “All Star” that keeps it going and going and going and going and going?

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  5. 17 hours ago

    At 2:09 in this video -- "The Best of the Internet (2019)" -- there's a brief appearance by a truly majestic blanket octopus: The goose attack is pretty amusing too (Separate moments in the video: The goose does not attack the octopus) (via )

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  6. Dec 5

    TIL that Copernicus so delayed the publication of his revolutionary book on heliocentrism -- "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" -- that he only first held a copy of it the day he died: Possibly apocryphal, but pretty intense if true

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    Dec 5

    Just arrived. A must-have for Dickinson fans.
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    Dec 5

    Wonderful. FYI

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    A water-powered drum machine in Indonesia.
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    Dec 5

    tell me what life means death cries i have my reward

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    Dec 4

    "Americans are dying of COVID-19 who, had they gotten sick a month earlier, would have lived." It is happening. Hospitals are being overwhelmed. Present tense, not future. Read and 's latest.

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  11. Dec 5

    Behold "MIDIBlocks", software for letting you control your computer using face-, head- and pose-tracking: Based on a cool javascript library, , that I'm going to tinker with this weekend

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  12. Dec 5

    "The question of Mr. Crunch’s proper rank becomes uncertain": A deep dive into the character of Cap'n Crunch -- (via )

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  13. Dec 5

    (BTW he sells firebowls too, ships 'em around the world: ... I've had a wee one on the top shelf of my living-room bookcase for years, it's so pretty)

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  14. Dec 5

    In summer 2019 I visited the studio of my friend the artist , who makes (among many other things) *gorgeous* metal sculptural firebowls. I took a pile of pictures giving a glimpse of his process, and finally got a chance to blog about them:

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    Dec 4

    "No one quite knows how much COBOL is out there, but estimates suggest there are as many as 240 billion lines of the code quietly powering many of the most crucial parts of our everyday lives."

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  16. Dec 4

    "This is Your Brain on Newsmax": Tim Miller () watches one full day of Newsmax programming, and describes it -- It is nonstop conspiracy theorizing about how the election was stolen from Trump

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  17. Dec 4

    The Voyager probes are still out there finding stuff:

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  18. Dec 4

    Reading the reviews people left on Google for the Arctic Ocean:

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    Dec 3

    a worm digs silently have i been here before? the bending yellow grain

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  20. Dec 4

    So apparently the Verazzano bridge makes spooky music when the winds are blowing hard enough that it's closed to traffic: I want to sample this as a drone in some music to compose this weekend

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  21. Dec 4

    I just published a big piece for on the privatization of outer space -- 'tis online now! Truly fun illustrations, too!

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