Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm – The Santa Barbara Independent McFadden disagreed sharply with what the university has described as “Charlie’s Vision” for the benefits of a “close-knit” living experience. “An ample body of documented evidence shows that interior environments with access to natural light, air, and views to nature improve both the […]
Month: October 2021
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-10-17
TAPoR Create and search a text corpus | Sketch Engine Sketch Engine is the ultimate tool to explore how language works. Its algorithms analyze authentic texts of billions of words (text corpora) to identify instantly what is typical in language and what is rare, unusual or emerging usage. It is also designed for text analysis […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-10-10
Pluralistic: 13 Oct 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow The problem with solutionism isn’t that technology is irrelevant to problem solving – it’s that technology developed in a vacuum by people who will never have to use it will only ever make problems worse. The Rent Versus Buy of Career Growth – Accidentally […]
Anti-Racism Site Brainstorming
I love the part of designing a website where you’re exploring initial ideas. You’ve got a general direction and it’s time to think through interesting things that might play into the visual design and the functional aspects of this thing that doesn’t yet exist. Somewhere around Rasmus Lerdof’s quote – “I actually hate programming, but […]
Parallel Practice Logging in Google Forms/Sheets
The goal of this project was to have students logging their practice on translation and a separate non-translation activity.1 It’s a neat idea and I proposed doing it via Google Forms/sheets because it was a really short timeline. Here’s a walkthrough of how it ended up with version two. It’s likely we’ll have a more […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-10-03
Criticalcommons.org h/t Luke Phelan Event Delegation Such a nice simple way to deal with dynamically generated elements. Easy and obvious if you know it, otherwise you do some really messy, stupid, complex things that still haunt you to this day. Teaching by filling in knowledge gaps Obviously I don’t actually think it’s bad to make […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-09-26
Steampipe | select * from cloud; Forrest Fleischman on Twitter: “In the last week I’ve started to receive inquiries from people running tree planting programs wanting my help. I am suggesting that they shut down their programs. Here I will explain why:” / Twitter Nice exploration of all kinds of things that frequently happen between […]