I just found this in an old blog post. I was about 25 weeks pregnant at the time: “I must do this for my daughter. I must show her that you can do what you love, that you don’t have to settle. That money isn’t as important as happiness. I want her to know hard…

I posted this article on Medium. About a month ago I presented slides to educators at my code school about how to support students during the pandemic. I got a lot of good feedback so I wanted to share them further. Here’s the sideshow. Some key points from the article: Acknowledge that we aren’t just…

https://www.stageit.com/ this is kinda cool. its like virtual busking for big musicians.

What was the last lyric you had to look up online? from r/funny

This interview with John Resig outlines the history of JQuery, its humble beginnings, how it grew into JQuery, and how it became a successful open source project. https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/html-js-jquery/jquery-dom-access/a/history-of-jquery

This website tells you what kinds of trees are in our world! What’s growing on your block? https://pdx.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=763ccdb78fc04181b79a0bdee8834ed7

I had a bad day yesterday. I cried until my face burned so bad I couldn’t stand it and then my eyes just kept watering from the pain. I read articles about how crying (in moderation) is good for you. It helped a bit. The despair came in waves, I tempered it with fiction reading…

The following is a random assortment of resources for people in Portland Struggling from various challenges posed by Covid-19 and it’s impact on life. Small Business and Non Profit Resources https://prosperportland.us/portfolio-items/portland-small-business-relief-fund/?fbclid=IwAR1y8I6ArKUqi9grmkBBzhV8BxScq2XmRn-uD7Qcj0zlLozBzrS8-a9ZJgYThis one is only open until April 1, and you get cash in hand by next Friday. Wowza. Our senator has a great list of resources…

Looking to stock up on some new films to watch during your self quarantine? The NFB website has hundreds of films by Canadian Indigenous filmmakers available for free!

I’d like to start posting things about digital pedagogy tips I’ve developed over the past couple years. This is hopefully the first of many. I’ve been working remotely as a contractor for a long time and have been an instructor online for a little over two years. I’m also addicted to online tutorials and my…

LOVE this article in the Atlantic: Getting Lost Makes the Brain go Haywire “So deep-seated is our dread of disorientation that becoming lost might trigger a kind of crack-up, where our very sense of self comes apart at the seams. “To a man totally unaccustomed to it,” wrote Theodore Roosevelt in his 1888 book Ranch Life…

fillmurray, placebeard, placecage. I’ve died and gone to placeholder heaven.