Blog - Lara Schenck

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Updates: June 16 – August 12, 2021

Post author By nodoinet
Post date August 12, 2021

It’s only going to be 95F today.

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Updates: April 6 – June 16, 2021

Post author By nodoinet
Post date June 16, 2021

Cauliflower, category theory, FizzBuzz in CSS, and more!

Tags category theory, fizzbuzz, gardening, school

WordPress

Gutenberg Snippet: Retrieve taxonomy terms with compose, withSelect, and getEntityRecords

Post author By nodoinet
Post date June 9, 2021

A snippet that I need to remember.

Tags block editor, compose, getentityrecords, gutenberg, react

Antiracism Links Research

Race Critical Code Studies reading list from Ruha Benjamin

Post author By nodoinet
Post date May 29, 2021

Picture of a TV that has a slide reading "Race Critical Code Studies" and 10 different book covers

A reading list on critical race theory and technology that professor Ruha Benjamin recommended in an author talk. This post is a large collection of links and specific quote from the talk.

Tags critical race theory

WordPress

Trigger Gutenberg editor notices via the console

Post author By nodoinet
Post date May 13, 2021

A snippet to drop in the console that will trigger a notice in the WordPress editor (i.e. Gutenberg).

Tags console, gutenberg, javascript, redux

Monsters

Graph traversal monsters

Post author By nodoinet
Post date April 24, 2021

Three monsters, two small ones each labeled DFS and another BFS, and a third with large ears called Stack

Monsters representing breadth first search, depth first search, and a stack data structure.

Tags bfs, data structure, dfs, graph traversal algorithms, monsters, stack

Web Development

The Beauty of FizzBuzz in CSS

Post author By nodoinet
Post date April 21, 2021

In this CSS implementation of FizzBuzz, we can generate beautiful patterns with math!

Tags fizzbuzz, generative art, interviews

Now

As of April 3, 2021

Post author By nodoinet
Post date April 5, 2021

Fraction iterations in CSS, FizzBuzz monsters, books, more math, gardening, and knee problems again.

Tags css, css programmers, racial justice, reading

Findings Ideas

Icebergs and teaching/learning programming

Post author By nodoinet
Post date March 17, 2021

An image of the side to side iceberg showing Rust/C++ at one end, CSS at the other end, and jagged lines going down the iceberg, with a question mark at the third corner. There is another jagged line going through the center of all layers labeled "trees".

Inspired by some critical knowledge about icebergs, I came across a “baby idea” for how we could teach and learn programming and programming languages.