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My preteen nephews want to learn programming with guided instructions. Please share any resources for teaching this age group. I am looking for #Python or #RStats resources for making mini games/other projects that teach programming concepts. #programming
My preteen nephews want to learn programming with guided instructions. Please share any resources for teaching this age group. I am looking for #Python or #RStats resources for making mini games/other projects that teach programming concepts. #programming
I'm #colorblind and I use https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ frequently.
Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the colors they refer to.
It's like a box of Crayola for the internet. Finally, my colorblind self can grab a sample of "dark magenta" that doesn't just look like "grape purple" to everyone else.
The data is freely available as a .txt file under CC0, which I've converted into a .css file here: https://git.hatspace.net/nycki/nycki.net/src/branch/main/static/xkcd.css
so now when I want a color on my website I can just write `color: var(--xkcd-off-white)` or so on. it's really convenient :)
I learned about #computers and #programming when I was younger for a specific reason: I was into math and science, and these days it's basically impossible to separate the study of mathematics and the practice of science from *personal computing*, or "microcomputing" as it used to be called.
These days it's taken for granted that you'll be doing all your data collection and numerical analysis and so forth on a computer, using some mathematical or scientific #software packages. Microcomputers are likely to be how a person in the laboratory interacts with scientific instrumentation.
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I'm #colorblind and I use https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ frequently.
Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the colors they refer to.
It's like a box of Crayola for the internet. Finally, my colorblind self can grab a sample of "dark magenta" that doesn't just look like "grape purple" to everyone else.
The data is freely available as a .txt file under CC0, which I've converted into a .css file here: https://git.hatspace.net/nycki/nycki.net/src/branch/main/static/xkcd.css
so now when I want a color on my website I can just write `color: var(--xkcd-off-white)` or so on. it's really convenient :)
About that, "We built a web browser from scratch with AI," claim…
> When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype. Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter. https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/01/26/cursor_opinion/
> "… I agree this isn't just wiring up of dependencies, and neither is it copied from existing implementations: it's a uniquely bad design that could never support anything resembling a real-world web engine."
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