Geoff Svacha @[email protected]

@RobJHeaton Thank you for the chuckles... perfectly wrapped: "I scrolled around the HTML and reflected that this had been both the most and least productive flight of my life."

I wrote a tool called PySkyWiFi that gives you completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights. It tunnels data through the "first name" field in your airmiles account, and can reach speeds of up to several bytes per second. robertheaton.com/pyskywifi

@pcho is this good? > I was 95% accurate! 🟩⬜️✅🟩✅✅✅🟩 Can you do better? brilliant.org/challenges/hal…

We launched a very cool game at my work! Would love your feedback. brilliant.org/challenges/hal…

My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen.

Was just asked, as part of submitting a recommendation letter for a student applying to grad school, if the student "exhibits common sense." Given that they're applying to grad school, the answer should be obvious...

If you've enjoyed Avatar: The Last Airbender (it's still on my "to watch list - someday...") you'll probably thoroughly enjoy this #dataviz dashboard by @pradeep_zen - Elegant design, fun facts, ample annotations and fun tidbits public.tableau.com/app/profile/pr… via @infobeautyaward

If founders don’t sleep, bad stuff happens, in 4 studies: 1) Lack of 💤makes you generate worse ideas 2) Lack of 💤 makes you think the bad ideas you develop are good 3) Getting 💤 boosts your mood, upping the mood of your startup 4) Lack of 💤 lowers your entrepreneurial ability

“It’s Really, Really Worth Trying to Avoid Getting COVID Multiple Times” “A new study found people are more likely to develop #LongCovid or other serious health problems if they’re infected more than once.” self.com/story/covid-re…

Confession: I have no idea what to do with edtech data dashboards like these. Do you use them? How do they help you make teaching decisions?

They Want to Kill Libraries doctorow.medium.com/they-want-to-k…

I often tell colleagues that the fastest way to be a really great engineer is not to grind leetcode or to learn a new framework, but to make your written communication clearer. Everything else follows. This article does a really great job explaining why: karlsutt.com/articles/commu…

Teaching is so weird because nobody seems to want to talk about how to explain things... which seems like it'd be something we'd talk a whole lot about. There are a few things I've learned from research into clarity of explanations that I wish I'd been taught earlier 1/

@this_hits_home It’s a cardigan I’m working on for the toddler :)

Ada Twist, Scientist (Season 3) hits Netflix on September 12th!

@AllenDowney Mode Analytics tutorial: mode.com/sql-tutorial/i… Select Star SQL: selectstarsql.com

Anybody have a favorite introduction to SQL (book or online resource) for a student who wants to do an independent study?

I *love* Rich Schwartz's book that he wrote for his daughter Lily: math.brown.edu/reschwar/Paper… "This book is all business. If you repeatedly get the right answer, you know how to do it. Once you really know *how*, you will be able to figure out *why*." Are there others like it?

☁️ new project cloudyvision.rachelbinx.com over the past two years I've spent a lot more time looking at the clouds — this project is my love letter to the stratosphere

Jibaro from Love Death and Robots season 3 is probably the best thing I’ve seen this year. It’s not just good, it’s something I’ve never ever seen in my life before, it’s completely original and unique, like I’m so gagged