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@PWCSChairman And yet, here you are spending time on it yourself. How about you focus on what's important instead of wasting time fighting right-wing culture wars on twitter. I will not be voting for you again.
This was much fun! I wrote a little MVC/C# web app to send arguments to an @openscad project. It lets me easily turn my #Wordle results into STLs for #3DPrinting. Don't be too terribly surprised if I print myself a fresh Wordle pendant each morning! :)
@dallas_hawthorn Our local delegate, @pwcdanica is my hero. She conducts herself so nobly while tirelessly fighting the good fight in our community. As a parent, I point to her as a role model of leadership with her strength to stay positive and progress-focused in our political environment.
Last week's news of Fantasy Flight's Keyforge card game going on indefinite hiatus because the deck-building algorithm is "broken" provides a teachable moment for Computer Science Education. https://t.co/H97jqLv6Gz
Today's playtesting session of #VotesForWomen from @fortcircle games was a nail-biter, but @tgaw squeaked out a win in the final voting. The game is so enlightening for understanding the process for amending the US Constitution and the political strife surrounding the history.
As a software developer, I completely understand. I've had deployments that were supposed to take an hour take all night. This is a major software update and will be well worth the wait. @MTG_Arena
@KGcodes Working in the government back in the day, we had to maintain Section 508 compliance. There was an online tool called Bobby that would evaluate your site and list the accessibility issues. Looks like it's no longer around, but there are many sites like it. https://t.co/Ia5DI7NDD1
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Google today vs Oracle. The oral arguments made in October were fascinating for how the lawyers communicated complex concepts to non-technical judges using metaphors like restaurant menus as APIs. A teachable moment: https://t.co/JKZfdKV3Co
Fun family project. I let my boys dictate a short RPG to me which I coded. I had to include a small JS framework to handle really large numbers as you start with a googol life. https://t.co/W3MejTQ9Jl
randomly I remembered that the original roller coaster tycoon was programmed by Chris Sawyer in assembly, which, honestly, the stones on this guy. short thread follows on why this is so ridiculous.
@Wizards used to include these "Kaijudo Code" cards in packs of Duel Masters. I love these for how they encourage a healthy-mindset when playing what can oftentimes be a very stressful competitive experience. I refer to this card whenever I'm feeling low on @MTG_Arena.
My son just explained to me that #Fortnite won't allow first-person view because players can't see--and therefore care about--their own expensive custom skins. I'm thankful for my kids educating me in digital literacy.
From one of the decoders of the Zodiac message. Here's a high-quality entertaining video taking viewers step-by-step through decoding the secret message in the Perseverance parachute: https://t.co/pd25On56od
@0x11eaea I understand. Maybe it was a little easier for me because we didn't have too many internet snippets in 1999, but instead had thick, expensive books that would start from the very basics. I had an English BA and had to self-teach myself from those old tomes. ๐
This was a HUGE problem for me starting out in VBscript, PHP, and Java. Having to set up a server, configure it, update environment variables, and many other arcane technical chores to output "hello world." Much more accessible to code in JavaScript, a text editor, and browser.
@gillianmsmith A thing that frustrated me a lot when I was beginning to program was not knowing, uh, where to type the code? Like I would see an example code snippet, but have no idea how to make it run.