Runestone Roadmap for 2024 blog.runestone.academy/2024/01/0…

Finally finished Mistborn: Hero of Ages 📘Not sure how I feel about the ending, but at least the series had an ending! And, I liked it enough that I’ll probably continue and read the next series.

After 10 holes of golf today I got a notification that an air tag was following me… Nobody else in my foursome even knew what an air tag was, so I’m thinking it must have been the group right behind us.

Read about a victory for open source and open content in CS Education: blog.runestone.academy/2024/01/0…

Messing around with Advent of Code today. Wrote my first Rust and first Julia programs. After 20 years of Python programming in another language is fun, but maddeningly slow.

Just back from two weeks in the Antarctic. I think these are some of my best photos ever! 📷. See https://reputablejournal.com for shots from the whole trip. And a shout out to Atlas Ocean Voyages for creating an amazing experience.

Fun fact about Runestone Academy. The GPTbot is our number one source of bot traffic. Thousands of hits daily.

My favorite quote of the day:

“The most efficient way to get through this is to listen to what he has to say.” “We are not here to hear what he has to say,” Engoron replied. “We are here to listen to him answer questions.”

Can anyone guess the context of this quote?

This is a theme for me in 2023… Individual thinking versus institutional thinking. From Bloomberg: “Still, any lawmaker who crossed party lines would risk fierce backlash from key supporters and donors”. Too many people are ready to burn down the entire country instead of working together! WTF!??

Home! Feels like we are unpacking a months worth of stuff!