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16 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Dynamic Duos as Berts and Ernies: A Thread
First, let's do That Show

The TV equivalent of french fries, the not-exactly-satisfying-but-momentarily-deicious stack of cable TV tropes in a trenchcoat that I've threaded the daylights out of on its queer representation: Lucifer

Chloe Decker is clearly Bert. Lucie is Ernie.
Heart and Brain Comics.

I mean, come on. Brain is Bert. Heart is Ernie.

theawkwardyeti.com/chapter/heart-…
Old School Project Runway

I think Tim Gunn was Bert and Heidi Klum was Ernie, but that's muddled a bit by the relationships on the show.

Because Tim Gunn's Bert was a particularly transcendent Bert, uniquely skilled at cultivating and making space for the Ernie in others.

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Chelsea Troy 🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
17 Nov
ME: I drink a mug of broth about once a day

DOC: Yikes. Broth has too much sodium. You'll raise your blood pressure

ME: That's the point. My blood pressure is low

DOC: *takes bp* ...wow. I...could prescribe something to raise your blood pressure

ME: *points at broth*
This summer in NYC, I fainted in the middle of a 500 person junk swap because I'd gone for a run and I guess hadn't fully rehydrated. THAT's how close to the line my bp runs.

Then when they took me to the ER, where my poor mother had to come visit me thinking I might've DIED /1
they wouldn't let me leave until my bp & hr returned to "normal." Except my usual 106/60ish and 48 doesn't hit "normal".

I had to wait until nurses weren't looking, have my mother shield me, and do jumping jacks so they'd let me leave.

That's why I started the broth thing.

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Chelsea Troy 🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
17 Nov
My Intermediate Python Programming class is fully remote, in a program that has largely gone back in-person.

On teaching in-person vs remotely: a lot of the 'relative effectiveness' arguments I hear are speculative.

So I want to share some data with you from my class.

1/
FIRST: Where am I getting this data? I survey my students.

I survey my students 19 times per quarter.

Most pedagogy breakthroughs I've had found their seed in these survey responses.

Tonight, my students completed their 16th survey of the quarter. Here's what they said.

2/
There's this idea that live lecture universally works better than pre-recorded lectures, which my students watch outside of class.

I have subjective reasons why I disagree, but let's skip those and consider what students said.

Look at this. The margin here is not close.

3/
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15 Nov
I've been looking up a lot of soup recipes lately.

Now, the way that I learn things is to avoid committing a bunch of seemingly unrelated stuff to memory by coming up with a framework that connects all the pieces together.

I give you: A Framework for Vegetable Soup

1/
STEP 1: Choose two vegetables.

I have no idea why it's two, but I can confirm that "garden soup" where you blend several together tastes gross to me so let's just accept the Magic Number Two for now

Examples:
- Sweet potato & corn
- Broccoli & cauliflower
- Lentil & Tomato

2/
STEP 2: Chop up your two vegetables and sautee them until soft in a truly decadent amount of butter and probably some garlic.

Every single recipe appears to call for butter and garlic. I do not know why. I'm just recording an aggregate observation of the recipes here.

3/
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14 Nov
Marco is right.

Folks do OS for a few reasons. We hyperfixate on "save the world by building an X." Which is a shame because:

1. that one has some issues we tend to gloss over
2. OS advice and expectations tend to assume that one.

Shall we go through some OS motivations?

1/
Note: I'm skipping "Green Box Credit" as a motivation. That's an extrinsic motivation created by employers in lieu of actual instructive hiring criterion, and its optimization is a 24h cron with an empty commit script to a public repo.

We're not counting that.

Onward.

2/
The next motivation for OS contribution is to learn.

Couple things about this one.

1. Code bootcamps and whatnot LOVE to recommend this to BEGINNERS, and it's one of the worst ideas I've heard these places consistently parrot. Here's why:

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12 Nov
As any infosec person will tell you, a company's greatest security vulnerability is its people.

So I was shocked that, in 2 years of WFH, tech largely ignored meeting security—despite the fact that many techies are cohabiting partners with employees of competitors.

Like,

/1
...sure, partners talk, of course.

But it's a little different to be having a Zoom about something, and the verbatim conversation is wafting through a set of speakers with a competitor literally sitting in the room.

But yesterday, I realized why companies aren't worried.

/2
My co-presenter and I stopped in a coffee shop. A few tables over, two young men were talking. LOUDLY.

I, and presumably anyone else in that coffee shop, now know:

- How their company's payroll is secured
- What software it's in
- The NAME of the person with blanket access

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9 Nov
Okay.

Let's talk about the word 'interested' in Cook's quote that he has been 'interested in it for a while.'

That word has a very specific role and legacy in the modern tech industry, and who uses it, and why.

/1
In tech, I frequently hear the word 'interesting' used as a universal compliment signaling worthiness of attention.

"This refactor was interesting" means "it was worth doing and we made the right decision"

"This technology is interesting" insinuates that we should use it.

/2
But that "interesting" descriptor is frequently unique to the person giving it.

I don't mean it's subjective in the sense of "everyone might hav a different opinion about this"

I mean people will call it "interesting" based SOLELY on its benefit for them personally.

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