About a month ago a teacher from Switzerland reached out to me with a feature request for https://goodenoughgolfers.com, so I threw together an update. What’s new this week: The Prefer splitting these groups box lets you enumerate groups of players that should be split up if possible. It’s similar to Never allow these pairs but…
Read moreAugust 14, 2020 was my last day at Code.org.
Read moreHello world. The last year was a real whirlwind. I’m overdue to write an annual work update (here’s 2017) and this isn’t it. I just wanted to capture the world I’m waking up into today. We started a neon studio last year and are scrambling to make it fully-functional and useful to artists in the…
Read moreI recently asked a couple of experienced software engineers (on different occasions) this question: Tell me about a bit of useful feedback that’s stuck with you. In each case, the answer was immediate and deeply personal. Each engineer described direct critical feedback they had received from a coworker years ago, about their communication style. When…
Read moreEvery once in a while a programmer runs into a bug worth sharing. Our team had one of those today. Students were unable to use Design Mode in App Lab, but the issue only happened on Chrome, and only if the user had installed a browser extension that injects an external stylesheet into the page….
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