Every year, Amazon has a little fun with everyone’s virtual badge image in the company directory, PhoneTool. This year, employees got some shades: Here are some of the effects from previous years: Googly Eyes Spring Flowers Colorful Butterflies Funhouse Mirror
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Got the sad news today that EdX/2U is discontinuing their boot camp programs. I’m extremely grateful for the opportunity to share these life changing skills over the past 7 years. I still remember the day a UC Berkeley recruiter called me and asked if I would be interested in teaching […]
My older daughter graduated from Boston University with a BA in Neuroscience and Philosophy.
From an internal message board for my company’s interviewers…
My first time working with the Remix framework didn’t go so well. I followed their quick start instructions step-by-step which seemed very straight forward. The development server started. I opened a browser to localhost and ended up with the dreaded “white screen of death”. I thought I followed all the […]
My parents are a little bit obsessed about Panera Bread. But it’s really incredible that the company recognized them for their extreme loyalty!
My proposal for a conference session was accepted. Next month, I will be hosting a session called “Effective First Day Student Introductions… with 40, 50, 60 Students or More!” at the 2023 2U Educator Conference – “Innovations In Online Education” Should be a fun session. The technical work is done. […]
They send a film crew to your hometown and close down the restaurant to throw a party! https://www.kfyrtv.com/2023/10/04/bismarck-couple-featured-panera-bread-ad-campaign/
I’ve been motivated to move some of my side projects and blogs off of WordPress. It’s a great platform but I don’t like to see hundreds of attempts to hack my sites in my logs. So far, none have succeeded, but I resent having to block IPs from bots to […]