Month: October 2020
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Teaching Programming
Note: This is a post I drafted in 2017 and am publishing now in 2020. I am genuinely tired of Silicon Valley jerks being convinced they can save education while knowing nothing about it. Amandine Coget (@LiaSae) December 2, 2015 My Background I’m working as a tech educator now – my official title is “Lead…
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Awkwardness, Wavelengths, and Amplifiers
I’m an introvert, and although I can pass as an extrovert in certain situations (like being in front of a crowd, or when hanging out with people I know well), I still have a problem with small talk. I’ve run into this problem a couple of times over the last few days, where a conversation…
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Name Change
When Greta and I got married, we joked that we were going to merge our last names (Dohl and Seidel, respectively) into a portmanteau, “Seidohl”. With our wedding date approaching and no better ideas, we happily went forward with that idea and made it our legal last name. This isn’t a guide (there’s a good…