From a good friend who knows:
"Making phone calls for the campaign on election day could be a good way to contribute if you don't have to work that day. All the work canvassing and phone banking before e-day is to identify which voters need to be flushed out that day."

I was ashamed of myself the day Trump won: I did nothing to prevent it. I will leave it all on the field this time. I encourage you to do the same. How will you feel if Kamala loses, and you could have done more?

I'm teaching a Go course and you can't really understand Go's concept of runes and why it's bad to iterate through a string byte by byte (and more) if you don't understand string encodings, and really, to appreciate that, it's helpful to know some history. So I pointed folks at a true classic, from Joel on Software: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/

If you haven't read Joel before, read anything on that blog and be treated. There was a time when he was the universally read blogger for MSFT devs.