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The Tale of the Merry Squid: Teaching Programming with Minecraft
This past January and February, I taught a class that introduces children to programming through Minecraft. I called the class “The Merry Squid”, and this is my story of how it went. For the benefit...
View ArticleMy onboarding experience at Khan Academy
I’m in my third week at Khan Academy and thought I’d write a little about my experience with the onboarding process here. I’m a remote employee and my first two weeks have been here at home, 2,000+...
View ArticleSide Effects vs. Promises
This past weekend, I saw Chris Armstrong (@radix) talk about Side Effects as Public API. From the description on the Strange Loop page for the talk: Haskellers have been isolating their side-effects...
View ArticleWhat is functional programming?
Kris Jenkins has one of the best little descriptions of functional programming that I’ve seen. A good link to send around when the questions come up. I put it to you that every function you write has...
View ArticleDitching Scrum for Kanban
I’ve blogged about the switch we made on the Brackets project from Scrum to Kanban and also, more recently, on our use of Kanban at Khan Academy. This article by Grant Ammons mirrors my own...
View ArticleThe Jai Programming Language
Jon Blow’s videos about the development of his new game are really interesting. To build the game he wants to build, he decided to create the language he wanted to use to build the game (kind of like...
View ArticleRemix OS for PC: Android on the Mac
I don’t have any Android devices at present, but I am sometimes curious about various things going on with Android. For example, it would be nice to be able to try out the Khan Academy app for Android....
View ArticleSeth Godin on The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss has done a bunch of great interviews or, more to the point, interviewed a bunch of great people well. On the latest episode, he interviewed well-known marketer Seth Godin. I enjoyed the...
View ArticleStupid Security Things
Troy Hunt’s collection of stupid security things is kind of amazing.
View ArticleThe sad disappearance of climate change information
A short article I wrote that worries about the fate of NASA’s Climate Kids site.
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