I love scones, and good vegan scones aren’t terribly common. So I’m learning to bake them myself. In the last week I’ve made three batches of vegan scones. Here’s what I’ve learned.
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Categories: Baking
Memorable feedback
I recently asked a couple of experienced software engineers (on different occasions) this question: Tell me about a bit of useful feedback that’s stuck with you. In each case, the answer was immediate and deeply personal. Each engineer described direct critical feedback they had received from a coworker years ago, about their communication style. When…
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CSSOM and CORS in Chrome 64
Every 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….
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Categories: Blog / Programmer
Feedback and the growth mindset
I was listening to TED Radio Hour’s “Nudge” episode today. The second segment features Carol Dweck, Professor of Psychology at Stanford and author of Mindset (2006). One exchange jumped out at me. Carol: We condition [kids] to show that they have talents and abilities all the time, and we think this is the road to…
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