Lara Schenck
Lover of programming, maker of monsters
Category: Projects
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From Data Work to Data Science: Getting Past the Gatekeepers (ICER 2023)
This post outlines my lightning talk and poster for the 2023 International Computing Education Research conference. It’s a nice update regarding where my research is headed and what I’m working on lately.
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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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bread + adventure = breadventure
I made bread! Here are pictures.
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A Mostly Unrestrained List of 2019 Goals
This post contains an extremely ambitious list of all the things I want to do this year. Will I get to all of it? Any of it? Time will tell, but I hope some of it, at least!
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Designgineering Chronicles [WiH]: The First Month
This post is a summary of what I’ve been working on at PMC as a “Design Engineer”. Note that it is written in haste (WiH)!
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#Make100 Monsters on Kickstarter!
A non-computer hobby of mine is to illustrate friendly monsters. In an effort to get them out of my sketchbooks and onto walls, I’ve launched a Kickstarter #Make100 project!
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When you draw a funny character and realize it’s more like a self-portrait…
I drew a cute character and it ended up resembling a picture of me a the beach. Funny how these things happen.
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MTNmeister.com:
Timber + ACF for the WinI’m excited to officially announce the launch of MTNmeister.com. It was really fun to build, thanks to my new favorite pair of things in the world: Timber with Advanced Custom Fields. I’d like to share some highlights of my process, and maybe even convince you to try out Timber on your next project.
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Negronis and Side Projects
One thing that may not be evident from my web presence is that I’m into cocktails. I had the best Negroni of my life at Gin Palace the other night, and when I needed an idea for a project, naturally that Negroni came to mind.
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I made a Codepen
See the Pen prIFw by Lara Schenck (@laras126) on CodePen. A notlaura.com realign is officially underway (didn’t I just do one?). Don’t expect anything too soon, but the above is a little preview. Plus I’ve been listening to Codepen Radio lately and, well, time to make a pen! In addition to typography and gridding, I’ve…
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New Workshop! Portfolio Site in a Day-ish
Calling all website-less visual artists! You’ve been putting your website off for a while now, right? Come to this two session workshop and leave with a fully functioning portfolio site. We will create websites using WordPress and the theme WPFolio. The workshop will be limited to 4 people to ensure everyone gets the most out…
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Another poster for Q2L
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Startup Bus NYC 2014
Last week I participated in the 2014 Startup Bus from NYC to San Antonio, then to Austin for SXSW. The Startup Bus is a 72hr hackathon where 30 people on a bus form teams and create, develop, and pitch a startup while on the bus. It was quite an experience, to say the least! I…
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Style tile for Q2L Website
Style what? Style Tiles are a design deliverable consisting of fonts, colors and interface elements that communicate the essence of a visual brand for the web. – Styletil.es by Samantha Warren Here is the first iteration of a style tile for Quest to Learn’s website redesign. The branding and logo design were done by the…
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Harvest4Clients Fork
No demo online yet, so a screenshot will suffice for now. I am in the process of transitioning all of my work to hourly billing and am looking for an easy way for clients to check in on my hours. I am a happy Harvest user, but it doesn’t offer an easy way for clients…