A Reputable Journal

Also, the mountains were just stunningly beautiful with new snow added overnight. Nothing beats playing golf in shorts and seeing snow on the mountains just miles away.

I think this is as close as I’ve ever come to a hole in one! The ball is on the opposite side of the cup from where I teed off so I don’t know how it did not go in the hole!!

And yes, I made the putt for a two.

I just realized how inconsistent I am… During the board of regents meeting I strongly advocated for faculty. But with my developer hat on, I have a different reaction when they ask for some feature to save them time because they are too busy to do it the way I designed it. Maybe an area of personal growth.

Lets say you are a teacher, and you know that when you are teaching there are 1000 other classes across the world learning the same material. How could you capitalize on that? Would you want your students to interact? If so, what would that look like to you and your students?

Today’s rabbit hole was about monorepos and polyliths. I really think this is the way to go for Runestone but before I make the jump I would love to hear from others who have walked this path. Thanks!

Finally got to play with a Christmas gift today. My new Ruixin knife sharper, it definitely takes practice, so I haven’t tried it on my best knives yet. But it really helped a couple of the cheap badly dull knives I started with.

What to do when your open source community lets someone down? Promises were made, now classes are starting tomorrow and the recipient of those promises is left hanging and you get radio silence from the people you need to live up to their end of the bargain.

I finally got time to post a retrospective of 2022 for Runestone Academy. Give it a read and feel free to comment or discuss here.

Shoutout to Susan Rodger and all of her students at Duke University! The stream of Paypal donations to Runestone Academy over the past few days puts a spring in my step and a smile on my face!