Andrew Badr

@andrew
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Programming, poetry, internet art. Former startupper, longtime webdev. Interested in language, math, finance, deserts, beaches, etc. https://andrewbadr.com
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Words pronounced differently than I thought from just reading themankylosaur, awry
Hogwarts thingI don't know
Andrew BadrApr 7, 2023

*a guy runs in circles around a car banging on it with a hammer*

Onlookers: "I love his speed of iteration. He's making a lot of mistakes, but he's learning from them"

Andrew BadrDec 31, 2022

The ocean is full of fish-shaped holes.

Thanks

Andrew BadrDec 21, 2022
Why is all my spam in whatever language this is?
Andrew BadrDec 21, 2022
I was reading about the Gleam programming language and came across this built-in "todo" feature: https://gleam.run/book/tour/todo.html. V cute! And solves an annoying UX issue with type-checked languages
Todo - The Gleam Book

Andrew BadrOct 28, 2022
does anyone hear me
Andrew BadrOct 7, 2022
hello again, mastodon. how are we doing?
Show threadAndrew BadrApr 22, 2019
One thing I've learned from teaching: sometimes I don't know the easy way to do something. What's the easy way to make async http requests? (fetch polyfill?) What's the simplest way to do authentication in Node? (Passport??) What's the scaled-down DOM manipulation library? (Do we still use jquery? is there something even lighter?)
Show threadAndrew BadrApr 2, 2019

I was demoing something (.gitignore) on the command line and ended up using vim. Didn't mean for that to be part of the demo. Five minutes later a hand goes up, "how do you quit vim?" lol

(I showed them the fake O'Reilly book cover.)

Show threadAndrew BadrApr 2, 2019

Another thing I'm trying to do is convey how I *feel* about all the things I'm teaching. There's a lot of information contained in feelings and subculture narratives. Like, how do you feel about git? CSS? It says a lot about how to approach and continue learning about those tools. The risk is introducing unhelpful bias, but on balance I think it's a good thing.

Everyone made a website and got it hosted online by the end of class!

Andrew BadrApr 2, 2019

Teaching Web Dev at ITP. It's a 2:30hr class, so I have a break in the middle. There's a shared google doc where students post "middle of the class questions" during the 5 min break, and then the first thing after break is answering them. This seems to have worked well on day 1.

I demoed something using netcat. One of the MotC questions was "how do you get netcat to purr or meow?". I searched the docs and couldn't find anything. Thinking about filing a bug report.