Oberlin College announced a plan for the 2020–2021 school year that, in my view, has some major problems. This post contains the email response I sent to President Carmen Twillie Ambar.
Dear President Ambar,
Just for fun, I signed up for the DEF CON CTF 2020 Qualifiers this weekend. I didn’t successfully solve any challenges besides the (deliberately easy) welcome challenges. But I spent a while working on “uploooadit,” a web challenge focusing on a Flask app. This post is a write-up of my unsuccessful attempts at solving the challenge. The Challenge The challenge links to a simple website and provides the source code, written in Python with the web framework Flask:
I don’t have much to add to my reflection on week 2 of online classes. I’ve continued weekdaily naps, as well as walks and runs. My attention and promptness to my schoolwork was not as good this week as it was in week 2; in general, I was more distracted from work, so I started it later in the day. One welcome improvement is that my politics professor has shortened class slightly by removing the full-class discussion that would follow the small group discussions.
Last week I wrote a reflection on my first week of online classes in which I described some of the good and bad changes caused by the move online. Now that another week has passed, I want to revisit that topic.
Colleges (and high schools) across the world have switched to teaching classes online due to the current COVID–19 outbreak. I just finished my first week of taking classes entirely online. This post is a brief reflection on my experience of the sudden adjustment: what went well, and what didn’t? The format All of my classes are meeting via video chat at the regular time. In two of them it is more or less expected that students will enable their cameras, and in the other two only a few students do.
Kishi Bashi’s 2016 album Sonderlust is a marked departure from the style of his previous two albums, and no track exemplifies this better than “Say Yeah.” In contrast to his established style of mostly solo creations constructed from voice and violin loops, the track features a distinctly synth-pop sound characteristic of the 1970s that incorporates quite a few other musicians. “Say Yeah” opens with a chiptune-style melody that sounds like something from an early videogame.
Today I watched Frozen Ⅱ four times in a row. I don’t usually do anything on Sundays, so I figured this might be something interesting (if painful). I haven’t seen the original Frozen but I figured this would be a great place to jump in. As with most Disney movies, it was a squeaky-clean mediocrity that tries to appeal to everyone, and in doing so, appeals to no one. Dear reader, let me tell you what I have learned.
I’m writing this down so I don’t have to keep searching it. Content stolen from here.
To do basic debugging in Racket, use tracing.
Yesterday, this site went down for about four hours. Complaints started rolling in from my millions of ardent followers, spurring me into action. Join me as I deconstruct what went wrong, how I fixed it, and how I tried to prevent the problem from occurring again.
I wrote previously about the Avenue Adventure, a project that I worked on with Sam DuBois, Kai Girard, and Liam Tegland.
Recently an article was published in the East Bay Express about the project: click here to read “Who Are the Key Keepers of Ocean View?” by Camryn Sanchez.