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Badges? Badgr Badges? We don’t need no stinking Badgr

Posted on July 10, 2026 (July 10, 2026) by Tom Woodward

As Middlebury closes the MIIS campus, we are also closing our non-credit online offerings.1 The courses were in Canvas and they used Badgr/Parchment to award badges.2 Of course Instructure ended up changing the rules around using Badgr/Parchment half way through and so, absent money, it stopped working. Pro-tip folks, don’t use any freemium stuff for […]

Claude’s Vibe Coding Misdirection

Posted on June 4, 2025 by Tom Woodward

Given I’m making a vibe coding presentation/workshop, this example seemed worth breaking down. I think it shows how different it can be to look at what’s going on in AI code generation scenarios if you have a foundation in programming and if you’ve developed a mental map of how things work/don’t work. A friend sent […]