Okay! People at #nbpy kept asking me whether I was going to #pycon US and being quite surprised that I wasn't sure yet, but it's now confirmed: I am going to pycon this year! See many of you very soon! ✨
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Such a great point from @sheena@fosstodon.org at the #pycon education summit: our students aren't learning in the same environment we did! Things that were obvious to us, like Sheena's example of learning return vs print in a compiled language, may no longer be NEARLY so obvious in the tech stack our students are actually learning!
I used a similar example in my #nbpy talk this year, where my students expect that clicking "no" on a modal will block them (because during their tech journey it often has!). I love this generalized observation, though.
So many student empathy problems could be anticipated by considering in advance how your students' environment differs from the environment you learned in.
new job, new laptop, new apologetic message to IT that my password is not what I thought as soon as my touch ID wouldn't cut it 😅
My #nbpy talk video is posted! I really enjoyed this one and I remain very interested in action item shares ✨ https://youtu.be/LL62AQ6dt1U
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I am sometimes using AI for coding, mostly as part of my job. It's annoying and often a great reminder of how much better I am at this than I picture myself being.
We ate lunch, I'm awake, and up next at the #pycon Education Summit is Elizabeth Bacon with a talk on Scaffolding CS Activities! 🎉
It's my first session visit of #pycon !! I'm not awake enough for live posting yet but today I'm at the #educationsummit
I ship out tomorrow morning for #SCaLE23x , where I'll be supporting the civic data nonprofit @civicband@sfba.social !
It's my first SCaLE ever and I'd love to meet some of you. If you're attending, please come through the booth and say hi!
"Snails have many enemies" - the United States Department of Agriculture
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@phildini But also every other commit on this project is "oops broke the manifest again", just to keep us all grounded lest anyone think I've learned how to count brackets
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@pythonbynight@hachyderm.io Thank you! We'll see how much I manage to livetweet because I try to prioritize Charlas but I don't think my Spanish is strong enough to follow *and* liveblog just yet. I've practiced a lot in the last two years, though, so we'll see!
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@offby1 @phildini 😂 Honestly, I've recently been using my commit history a lot because GitHub's current "use arrows step through commit diffs one by one" is really great for showing students how I solved something
(and yeah, I own up to "and this commit was me fixing a typo because no matter how much experience you have, typos happen" too 😅)
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@fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social I don't know how loud an electric mower is exactly, but I had a similar issue where I wanted a pair of open ear headphones that I could use in the gym (similarly hot) and while vacuuming (similarly loud). I ended up going with some bone conduction headphones with a strap that wraps around the back of the head and then has an earbud like lil loop around the ear, and I can hear them over the vacuum at 50-75% of their range (with it in low versus high vacuum-age).
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@socalpython@fosstodon.org @pycon@fosstodon.org @pybeach@fosstodon.org Hiiiiiiii!!! Lovely seeing you today!
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@phildini I doubt yours are literally every other commit; you're on the PR I'm raccooning, look at the history 😂 three times in six commits like clockwork. it's only better since then because I finished the manifest
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@phildini hmmm I am using VSCode but I think it might take me longer to figure out if I want to trust an individual developer's extension that's not been updated in over a year than to just package things myself? thank you all the same though ✨
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@chrisjrn@social.coop @fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social That's pretty similar to the thing I got, but I was trying to get the cheapest possible ones as a proof of concept to see if it would bother me, and was able to get some from a Chinese brand for $15 at Ross. Next time I'll spend real money on it now that I know it works for me, so maybe we'll match soon 🤣