A woman with a rare neurological disorder details the experience of being lost every day of her life.
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In 1986, 1.5 million balloons were released over Cleveland, resulting in an unforeseen tragedy.
I was reminded of a post on citation practices by Sara Ahmed, so I started re-reading it and it struck a chord with reference to my recent keynote on how Virtually Connecting challenges academic Ga…
Not all bots are bad!
After 12 years, I’ve decided to hang it up on Twitter. I started using the site in 2006, when it was all texts sent to your phone, and I remember my first experience was actually kind of awfu…
How many people does it take to make a campaign trend? We dug into the numbers.
Link between Autism, math, and systemization borne out in general population.
Egg. On. Face. I just got done with no fewer than 3 articles and 3 YouTube videos bragging about how great my design work has been lately to get a 500% improvement on our conversion rate. And now, I’ve lost a huge chunk of that improvement with some recent changes. Let’s talk about Google AMP. ...
For the most part, the redesigned Gmail that launched in April maintained feature parity with the previous iteration. However, one minor grievance did emerge over the lack of a Google Contacts shortcut. This was an intentional change with Google now removing the Contacts shortcut and experience from legacy Gmail. For several years, Gmail featured a …
The education secretary's floating mansion was moored at an Ohio dock but was registered in a Caribbean archipelago.
👓 Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She’ll Thank You Later. | New York Times
The way we teach math in America hurts all students, but it may be hurting girls the most.
👓 First Look at Live Demo of the Gutenberg Content Editor for Drupal 8 | WP Tavern
Drupal Europe has just announced its program for the upcoming event in Darmstadt, Germany, September 10-14. The conference will host more than 1,600 Drupal professionals and enthusiasts for 162 hou…
This seems only natural. I do wish both sides would take a stronger look at Micropub though as it’s already built to work with any CMS that would like to use it.
👓 Lessons of running a (semi) static, Indieweb-friendly site for 2 years | petermolnar.net
Peter Molnar (petermolnar.net)It’s not possible to run fully static sites with dynamic features, such as webmention handling - you can get close to it, but you do need to embrace external services.
👓 The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code | Joel Spolsky
Have you ever heard of SEMA? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about six years just to understa…
Some good solid advice. It’s difficult to imagine a time when a lot of this wasn’t commonplace. Note the publication date of 08/09/2000! This was almost exactly 18 years to the day from today.
👓 “The Audrey Test”: Or, What Should Every Techie Know About Education? | Hack Education
Audrey Watters (Hack Education)I want us to set the bar really high when it comes to education technology -- both in its development and its implementation. I don't think it's too much to ask. I mean, we're talking about teaching and learning here, and while I believe strongly we should all be lifelong learners, most often when we talk about ed-tech, we're talking about kids. As the Macarthur Foundation's Connie Yowell said at the recent DML conference (and I'm paraphrasing), there's value in risk-taking and failing fast and often, but not in "high stakes environments with other people's children."