Lara L. Schenck
Computing researcher, maker of monsters
Blog
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How to write and run a shell script
The blog post I wish I’d found about writing and running shell scripts.
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Daemons and Evi Nemeth
I learned about daemons in a mindfulness course, and recognized the term from computing. This led me to learn about the matriarch of system administration, Evi Nemeth.
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This month, prepare for a few blog posts “from the past”
Blog posts “from the past”? Yes, this month I will publish posts written months and years ago.
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Updates: January 4 – February 16, 2022
An active month of updates – many content shares, Florida, and half-baked thoughts.
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What is a snapshot test?
An attempt at a concise, relatively plain-language explanation of the concept of a snapshot test, including an “in the wild” example.
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2021 highlights, lowlights, pictures, and music
A bulleted list of 2021 highlights and lowlights, but mostly highlights, and a few photos, mostly of plants and food, and some music. 2021 was a year of change and offline activities!
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Updates: November 6 – January 4, 2022
Final chili harvest, PhD applications…complete!, learning Nepali, sort-of learning data science, and racial justice-related links.
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Family Monster
This family monster is a classic. Especially in these cold temperatures, the apparent warmth and comfort of the baby monsters is enviable.
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An explainer about Rust, Web Assembly, the future, and a concern
What is Rust and what does it have to do with the future of the web? I’ve noticed some buzz about Rust lately and wanted to write this explainer post to share my distillation of the topic.
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Updates: August 23 – November 4, 2021
Peppers, Mexico City, applications, “my interests”, Rise Up conference, miscellaneous other updates and links!
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Gutenberg Snippet: Retrieve taxonomy terms with compose, withSelect, and getEntityRecords
A snippet that I need to remember.
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Race Critical Code Studies reading list from Ruha Benjamin
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.
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Trigger Gutenberg editor notices via the console
A snippet to drop in the console that will trigger a notice in the WordPress editor (i.e. Gutenberg).
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Graph traversal monsters
Monsters representing breadth first search, depth first search, and a stack data structure.
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The Beauty of FizzBuzz in CSS
In this CSS implementation of FizzBuzz, we can generate beautiful patterns with math!
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As of April 3, 2021
Fraction iterations in CSS, FizzBuzz monsters, books, more math, gardening, and knee problems again.
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Icebergs and teaching/learning programming
Inspired by some critical knowledge about icebergs, I came across a “baby idea” for how we could teach and learn programming and programming languages.
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Today I am 100000 years old!
Each year, I re-learn the binary number system on my birthday.
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As of February 26, 2021
Thoughts about math and me, systems and software, Twitter and thought leadership.
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Graph Theory Monsters, Bipartite Graph
Bipartite graphs as monsters: We who are different are connected.
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