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We Should Still Teach Kids to Code (2023)(blog.charliemeyer.co)
3 points by csmeyer 13d ago|0 comments
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So Long, and No Thanks for the Externalities (2009) [pdf](microsoft.com)
1 points by csmeyer 1mo ago|0 comments
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ChatGPT, the Abacus, and Education (2022)(blog.charliemeyer.co)
1 points by csmeyer 2mo ago|0 comments
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Replit Is Trapped(csmeyer.substack.com)
1 points by csmeyer 3mo ago|0 comments
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A tale of two weekend projects(csmeyer.substack.com)
4 points by csmeyer 4mo ago|0 comments
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Originators of Information(csmeyer.substack.com)
1 points by csmeyer 7mo ago|0 comments
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Please Please Please Let Me Code How I Want(csmeyer.substack.com)
1 points by csmeyer 8mo ago|0 comments
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Code Doesn't Happen to You(csmeyer.substack.com)
1 points by csmeyer 11mo ago|0 comments
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Replit's Existential Problem(blog.charliemeyer.co)
2 points by csmeyer 11mo ago|0 comments
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by csmeyer 1y ago
(OP) In my post, I actually ask the question of whether a student would _want_ to interact with the tutor, not if the tutor is capable of providing good instruction. These are drastically different critiques.
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LLMs are the ultimate demoware(blog.charliemeyer.co)
55 points by csmeyer 1y ago|126 comments
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The Trillion Dollar Chart(blog.charliemeyer.co)
2 points by csmeyer 1y ago|0 comments
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The GPT-5 Launch Was Concerning(blog.charliemeyer.co)
86 points by csmeyer 1y ago|94 comments
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Sometimes It's More Fun to Write the Code Yourself(blog.pickcode.io)
4 points by csmeyer 1y ago|0 comments
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Orchestra Conductors Are Prompt Engineers(blog.charliemeyer.co)
4 points by csmeyer 1y ago|7 comments
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The FC/FC Chasm: Why Teaching Programming Still Matters(blog.charliemeyer.co)
2 points by csmeyer 1y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Chessophone – Generate music from chess games(chessophone.com)
1 points by csmeyer 1y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Chessophone – Listen to Chess Games(chessophone.netlify.app)
2 points by csmeyer 1y ago|0 comments
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by csmeyer 2y ago
I’ve been in the habit of emailing myself a lot, I’m excited to give this a try! I had thought of building this myself, so I’m glad I don’t have to :-)
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Why We Build Simple Software(blog.pickcode.io)
18 points by csmeyer 2y ago|30 comments
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by csmeyer 2y ago
I loved programming for Pebble back in the day. They actually had a pretty nice in browser IDE and IIRC their APIs were fairly well documented. I remember making watch face bitmaps with paint!
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by csmeyer 2y ago
Our customers are split between the US and Europe. There are a lot of decision makers in the process who need to approve a purchase at school, so things are pretty time consuming.
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by csmeyer 2y ago
If you go to https://app.pickcode.io/lessons you can do some free Pickcode VL lessons without an account. Later this year we’ll probably add some Python or Javascript to that page too. URI storage would be neat!
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by csmeyer 2y ago
Basically just a lot simpler. Replit has a million features (and AI ghostwriter) that in my experience are distracting for kids (I used to be a teacher and still tutor kids 1:1)
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Show HN: Pickcode – Free online code editor for kids(pickcode.io)
86 points by csmeyer 2y ago|15 comments
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What youth sports can teach us about teaching coding(blog.pickcode.io)
2 points by csmeyer 2y ago|0 comments
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by csmeyer 2y ago
This post (just thinking of use of Unix tools within game software) reminds me of that bug a few years back within steam itself that accidentally deleted user’s root directories https://youtu.be/qzZLvw2AdvM?si=F-Aq9Ha_GKEZH0
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by csmeyer 2y ago
Dark mode/light mode unreadability has bitten me a few times on sites of my own… And it seems as though it’s happened to the best of us, more or less the entire YouTube iPad app is unreadable in light mode
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by csmeyer 2y ago
Palantir is a classic example of what is a hybrid services => product business. It was a _very_ long road for them to get to a point where their product could actually scale without massive implementation effort, but I think they’re fina
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by csmeyer 2y ago
How does this compare to magnet? Magnet has worked well for me for years, although recently I was trying to clean up my menu bar and realized there was no way to remove the menu bar icon. I’ll ask for some advice on that here actually since

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