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Great post within a series on learning how to model blogging as a teacher. Found via: https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=70348

I love how niches like this can be carved out. This channel uses video game music to explore music theory concepts. So cool!

Need to look in to this later for backing up my home server.

This whole series is helpful as someone who is begrudingly moving to zsh with the release of Catalina. I still kind of want to just stay with bash though as its what I use on every server I interact with. Zsh is at least similar enough to bash though.

A journey through every Billboard top 5 hit to find music’s greatest era.

This is so cool. I wish something like this was available as a kit to buy. I have no reason to own something like this, but the nerd in me doesn't care.

So cool to see someone describe what a Browser is in 1993. This video also is a really cool showcase of what using pre-web internet services was like. There is even a feature on early video conferencing developed at NASA! Definitely going to use this on digciz.jadin.me during history of the internet next time I teach it.

I love stuff from The Pudding.

This is a super nerdy look into the Mueller report. It's not evaluating the content of the report, but how or if it holds up as a good PDF document. I guess this type of article makes some sense coming from the PDF ASsociation...

Smart TVs are a mistake. I’ve never liked the idea of relying on a crappy computer built in to an expensive TV, when you could get a much more capable box like an Apple TV that is external and replacable every few years. On top of that not connecting your TV to the internet means the manufacturer can’t sell your viewing habits and history.

... 🤔 read via https://bionicteaching.com/weekly-web-harvest-for-2019-10-27/

A really cool community built quick reference for Linux command line stuff. You can easily get to it in your shell via ‘curl cheat.sh/ffmpeg’

Filing this away for myself to check out again when I have more time to play around with Jupyter. This is also a nice example of a book published with github 🙂

Going to have to try and use this to get webmentions working on this site, which runs Ghost.

This is an excellent article with great pictures explaining the basics of how DNS works and why encrypted DNS services are important.

@ktries @Autumm I really like this. Particularly the syllabus: #snclearns #DoOO