I use a personal oh-my-zsh theme which includes git status. Recently the git status part of my prompt stopped working – no error messages, it just vanished. I’m not sure what I broke. I found the code for the git_prompt_info and git_prompt_status functions used to display this here in the ohmyzsh repo, and determined that…
Read moreAbout a month ago a teacher from Switzerland reached out to me with a feature request for https://goodenoughgolfers.com, so I threw together an update. What’s new this week: The Prefer splitting these groups box lets you enumerate groups of players that should be split up if possible. It’s similar to Never allow these pairs but…
Read moreAugust 14, 2020 was my last day at Code.org.
Read moreEvery once in a while a programmer runs into a bug worth sharing. Our team had one of those today. Students were unable to use Design Mode in App Lab, but the issue only happened on Chrome, and only if the user had installed a browser extension that injects an external stylesheet into the page….
Read moreTwenty golfers wish to play in foursomes for 5 days. Is it possible for each golfer to play no more than once with any other golfer? Find out for yourself. This is known in mathematics as the Social Golfer Problem. Over Thanksgiving 2017, my dad posed a very similar problem: 28 students in discussion groups…
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