Lara L. Schenck
Computing researcher, maker of monsters
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As of February 7, 2021
So much going on! Learning graph theory, reading new books, slow work on my own book, Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit, and much more.
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Experimenting with logic in CSS selectors & thinking through the conditional
This post includes an in progress example of logical statements expressed in CSS. The conditional is tricky for me. “If P then Q” is not the same as an if/else statement.
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Experimenting with logical equivalence in JavaScript
Having fun with recursion, pattern matching, and logical equivalence.
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As of January 3, 2021
Writing, deciding what to read, runner’s knee, learning cool things, did a fun hardware project.
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My 2020 in bullet points, music, and pictures (previously 2020: Year in Review)
Another year, another “Year in Review” but this time, in a more fitting format.
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Idea: Desugared Design Systems
I learned about the concept of desugaring from a lecture on programming languages, and I wonder how that would apply to design systems.
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TED Talk recommendation: How to Read a Book a Day by Jordan Harry
There’s nothing quite like a great TED talk…and this is a great TED talk!
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Note to future Lara: Probably don’t rename directories just because it “feels better”
Lesson learned: Changing existing names with “better” new names is not necessarily a good idea because there will always be “better” new names.
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Let’s play: “Where is this CSS coming from?”
It’s a 1+ player game that can last from 1 hour to, um, much longer!
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As of November 11, 2020
Back from travel and resetting.
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As of October 16, 2020
Cross country road trip coming up, and updating the AMP plugin.
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As of September 14, 2020
Preparing for a bike trip, planning Gutenberg project, contributing to WordPress Core CSS chat.
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Versioning Larva, PMC’s design system
For Larva, we are using semantic versioning with some modified definitions.
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An brief explanation of recursion for UI programmers
A high level overview of recursion with an analogy that will be familiar to front-end UI programmers.
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Log a Gutenberg block’s attributes to the console
How to log a Gutenberg block’s attributes to the console for helpful debugging and an introduction to WordPress data stores.
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The BREATHE Act is here in defense of Black lives
See more and take action at https://BREATHEAct.org
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Thoughts on personal websites and full-time jobs / notlaura.com v4 [WiH]
notlaura.com v4 is in the works.
