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 […]
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 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. […]
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 […]
COVID drove the UC Berkeley Coding Boot Camp online in early 2020. Sadly, it seems as though there are no plans to resume in-person classes. I say “Sadly” because I really enjoyed the in-person experience. It’s SO MUCH EASIER to teach real people than little black rectangles on Zoom. You […]
Looks like somebody broke something! Somewhere between Node v18 and Webpack 5, this little error started appearing: ‘digital envelope routines::initialization error’ Fortunately, I found a pretty simple workaround: In your package.json file, add this prefix to the scripts that break: export NODE_OPTIONS=–openssl-legacy-provider For example, instead of just start-storybook -p 6006, […]
Web site visitors tend to be very impatient (Fifty three percent of visits are likely to be abandoned if the pages take longer than 3 seconds to load). You can imagine now frustrating they become when they click on an element and nothing appears to happen, which occurs frequently in […]
Me and my team were excited to see our post published yesterday on the public AWS blog.