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super interesting approach to using student written tests to check for misunderstanding while learning CS
"UML finally!!!" โ˜ ๏ธ
oh @shriramk is on fedi!
https://www.pyret.org/ looks super cool
The Pyret Programming Language

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frustration can be good, productive struggle is a well understood theory in education -- @shriramk
now Brooklyn Zelenka on the limitations of data centers and their global distribution
https://github.com/ucan-wg/spec sounds v interesting
GitHub - ucan-wg/spec: User Controlled Authorization Network (UCAN) Specification

User Controlled Authorization Network (UCAN) Specification - ucan-wg/spec

GitHub
speaker is also on fedi @expede!
now David Ogborn starting his talk acknowledging the native land McMaster is built on that enables his work, and the uncomfortable extractive reality of computing
David is leading the whole audience in a collective livecode improv session
the manifesto getting a shout-out!
now a demo of Idris, which I've never seen in person before
Michael Bernstein now on marketing for computer scientists. communicating big ideas is super hard and Michael has really cool approaches to it
now the inimitable @jenn getting back to her old hobby of "not minding her own business"
got an applause for "Yahoo! Pipes"
"how do we create a distributed mesh network that is useful/interesting to non technical people, and onboarding not just easy but delightful"
rise up nerds
damn straight
"don't over-engineer human relationships like we did single page apps" ๐Ÿ™
oops
"clout is a fake currency that distracts us from our own exploitation"
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no one can own html and shut it down
@nasser It's up there with Google Reader in "if we lived in a just world, this would still exist".
@nasser the number of times I've said "oh yeah, just like Yahoo! Pipes" to someone's Revolutionary Idea is still single-digit but not by much
@nasser was this recorded or are the slides somewhere?
@heapwolf it was recorded! they will be sharing the recordings at some point
@nasser nice, this talk seems interesting