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2025

Owl See You Later

2 minute read

I have been purposefully ignoring Duo for the last couple of days. While I understand that the point of Duolingo streaks is to encourage you to continue st...

:monkey: Escort Mission Game :guardsman:

7 minute read

I teach a game creation class at the high school, and one of the platforms we use is Microsoft MakeCode Arcade. I’ve written about it before. Students have...

Kibbeh

1 minute read

My daughter requested this for her birthday, so it motivated me to get the recipe on here for you. Also, you can find this recipe for Kibbeh on my Cooked.w...

One Thing About Me and Indigestible Fat

6 minute read

A couple of years back there was a trend in short videos. People were rapping over an instrumental version of a Nicki Minaj song1. The first lyr...

Back to the Pens

1 minute read

Sorry, but you’re probably going to get pen posts. These are some pens I dug up out of my collection, cleaned, and resurrected. Recently – at ...

The American Experiment

4 minute read

Chasing the Most American Image Ever: A Conversation with ChatGPT What began as a simple prompt quickly escalated into a thunderous journey through layers o...

Why Computer Science Matters Now

8 minute read

Teaching the Future: Why Computer Science Matters Now In my classrooms, in my school, in my town, and beyond, challenges have been pressing in from every di...

Supernatural Classroom Management

1 minute read

The image above and the following explanation were created with ChatGPT for entertainment purposes. The narrative of the images above is as follows: Panel 1...

:fist::us::fire: and Spoilers

less than 1 minute read

I know this post looks political because :fist: :us: :fire: was recently in the news, but I thought I would look into how to use emojis on this blog, and it ...

Deploying MakeCode

1 minute read

It took me a bit of time to figure out what was going wrong with my deployed MakeCode Arcade games that were being hosted by GitHub pages here on my website ...

Silly Shark Game Permalink

less than 1 minute read

I just recently figured out that when I manage my MakeCode Arcade programs with GitHub, they’ll also automatically get hosted here on my website. On a separa...

Sinistar Permalink

less than 1 minute read

Back when I was first learning MakeCode Arcade, I tried to write a mini-clone of the arcade classic Sinistar. At the time I’m making this blog post, it’s lar...

Drow Facts is Back

1 minute read

That’s right, the Drow Facts webapp is back. There’s a story behind this. Here’s the short version. The DrowFacts Project is something I threw together in ba...

First DaVinci Resolve Video

less than 1 minute read

Here’s a video I made yesterday using DaVinci Resolve. There’s an explanation below. Recently, I have moved my work from an older computer to a ...

Stick bomb video short

1 minute read

Yesterday in Eng Design we had students make different kinds of stick bombs as a way to demonstrate structures held together by tension. I used a square conf...

You Have Your America, and I Have Mine.

1 minute read

You have your America, and I have mine. You have your America of division, of walls seen and unseen, And I have my America of hearts open and burdens sha...

A Two Americas Poem

1 minute read

I wrote a poem this week, and it was inspired by a poem about Lebanon that was written by Kahlil Gibran. Here is his poem in an Instagram post. I don’t real...

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