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How we learn in this digital age is broken, amazing, and weird at the same time. I see two major paradigms that are present in learning models: islands and streams. Islands of learning are a traditional classroom approach. There’s a syllabus of reading, tasks to do, and lectures to listen to. It’s a very safe […]
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As I build more back-office web interfaces I notice that users feel most comfortable in an Excel-like interface. That’s why it’s now so common to find data being edited and exchanged Google Sheets. This got me wondering – how do I access, manipulate and write to Sheets from Python. I like the answer that I […]
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Open Education Global Conference is a yearly conference for the Open Education community, that a small non-profit OE Global, co-organizes yearly with a local host institution. For 2020 we planned to hold the conference in mid-November in Taipei, Taiwan. But then Covid happened and we’ve decided to make it a virtual event. We’ve had ~125 […]
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I’m really enjoying how easy makes Sage WordPress Theme development. It’s very different in the beginning, but it soon feels a lot more like working in Django instead of WordPress. At the same time, I’ve also been trying to use tailwind for this project. To make it work in production, you need to configure a […]
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After watching talks about Functional CSS at Ember Map, I started looking into starting to usetailwind for my future projects. The way tailwind works is that it generates a lot of CSS classes that you then use purgecss to remove. So I decided to try it on some of my existing Ember.js projects. I ran it on […]
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For one of my Ember.js apps, I have a bit of a too complex Form flow. While I’m working on simplifying frontend, I wanted a way to easily log validation errors that users received. In addition to debugging, this helps me improve the labels and instructions on the form itself. Backend in this case if […]
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We’re at the most busy point of organising WebCamp Ljubljana 2016. One of the questions we had to ask ourselves is – should we record the talks? It seemed that in previous years, did it because Kiberpipa and everyone else too. As organizers, we want to question decisions made in previous years. This is why […]
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Meritocracy is now a bad word. It’s increasingly used to describe communities that are built around outspoken individuals. They often don’t have clear rules and code of conduct. Alternative to that, is mentorship or apprenticeship driven community. In this model, new members are given clear roles and are presented with the expectation and rules. They […]
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I’m addicted to learning. So it was refreshing to find another group of people, that are similar minded. During lunches and dinners, I asked people to recommend me their favorite books and audio books. I’ve written down only the ones that were new to me. I still ended up with a huge list. I plan […]
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Let’s be honest – our tech community is slowing down. We’re organizing less meetups than in previous years. Without them, we’re losing the culture of sharing. While everyone focused on entrepreneurship and startups, we took engineers and developers for granted. This means that we now have less senior developers available, than a few years ago. […]