Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

If you haven't already, give yourself the gift of ditching grades as much as possible in your courses. Stop being adversarial with your students. Try trust in the new year. #ungrading

If you haven't already, would strongly recommend pinning an introductory toot to your profile. If you have particular images or video or audio you want to feature, they can be attached to pinned toots.

Also, pinned toots are automatically "backfilled" so you never have a blank profile on any server.

To add a pinned toot:

1. Log in with a third party app or through your server's website
2. Go to the toot you want to pin
3. Click ⋯ and "pin on profile"

You can also pin several toots at once!

"A new fleet of Northwest-themed Amtrak Cascades trains will transport passengers in style between Seattle, Vancouver, BC, Portland and other stations along the I-5 corridor when eight new trainsets and two new locomotives arrive in the Pacific Northwest in 2026." https://wsdot.wa.gov/about/news/2022/new-passenger-trains-coming-i-5-corridor

Teaching a #Python workshop?

When quizzing the room, avoid:
> What will this code do?

Instead try:
> What are the POSSIBLE things this code MIGHT do?

Followed by "which do you think Python picked?"

Starting with the space of possibilities is often less intimidating.

Hi there! This is ACM, the world's largest computing society. As you might have noticed, we have opened not only our official #Mastodon account but also our own #instance!

Please consider joining @mastodon.acm.org, a community for #computing researchers & practitioners to connect & exchange ideas with each other, whether you are an ACM member or not.

You can use this link to join: https://mastodon.acm.org/invite/FbXaxAHg

Spread the word with your friends and colleagues! Happy tooting!

Gyre *and* gimble? In this wabe?

#Violet knows what's up when we put on our office shoes and coats...

Using #vim is easy once you learn a few basic keybindings.

h and l - move left and right
j and k - move down and up
η and λ - move backwards and forwards through time
ξ and κ - translation through additional temporal dimension (if applicable)
ᚻ, ᛄ, ᚳ and ᛚ - moving left, down, up, and right through celestial spheres
𐤄 and 𐤋 - switch deity to pantheon member to left or right
ᛄ - supplicate to chosen deity
ᚳ - challenge chosen deity (dangerous)
:q - exit

Good morning on another day in the zone between "everything is fine" and "we are doomed for sure."

Good morning on another day where, in the spirit of complex systems, what you do shapes the future.

A hydroelectric dam is also known as a heavy water reactor.
https://xkcd.com/2710/