Ramsey Nasser🧵 Day 2 @causalislands
super interesting approach to using student written tests to check for misunderstanding while learning CS
"UML finally!!!" ☠️
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
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
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"
"don't over-engineer human relationships like we did single page apps" 🙏
"clout is a fake currency that distracts us from our own exploitation"
tj usiyan@nasser Who's talk is this?
Shriram Krishnamurthi@nasser It's up there with Google Reader in "if we lived in a just world, this would still exist".
yomimono, still on land@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