The prize: Playing virtual hooky permanently (School Zoom calls)
The marks: My sister, my brother in law, the teacher, the school’s computer teacher, the principle and Zoom's support team
The con: How she pulled it off… thread
Day 1: (Zero Day) My sister has three kids, all are currently in Zoom classes. Mysteriously one day, my niece's zoom stopped working. She went and told my sister who tried for over an hour to get her logged back in but could not. She figured it was a weird glitch.
Feb 23, 2020 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
There is a resurgence of interest in Rails recently from the JS community.
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There was an announcement about a JS framework aims to replicate Rails's success with a modern JS stack. Several hundred retweets and 1400+ likes for a framework that doesn't yet exists yet.
There has been a lot of talk recently on Redux in terms of its place and future in React. Thread on my thoughts.
The “redux is dead” chatter comes around every six months or so but this time it came from the creator of Redux. (Not sure if that was his intent but it certainly got it started again)
“It is not only the violin that shapes the violinist, we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use, and in this respect programming languages have a devious influence: they shape our thinking habits.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra
In human languages, studies have shown that people categorize events according to the grammatical constraints of the language in which they operate and that for bilingual people the effects are context-bound and transient.
