Lara Schenck
Lover of programming, maker of monsters
Category: Tech
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What is Middle-Skill Computing Work?
Middle-skill computing work is an emerging theme in my research to describe the kinds of work and jobs in computing that are not always considered “computing jobs”. Doing this work doesn’t require theoretical CS knowledge, and the jobs tend to be in $40-100k USD salary range. I think “middle-skill computing work” has significant promise for…
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Cultural Gatekeeping in Computing and Broadening Pathways to Computing Careers
In my research into broadening pathways to computing careers, I’ve been exploring how “cultural gatekeeping in computing” perpetuates stereotypes about computing, making non-traditional pathways harder to follow.
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A relatively informal talk about my research direction so far
A working title…Broadening Participation in Computing Through Broadening Computing: Adults Learning Computer Science Through Computational Work
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Email template for requesting an informational interview from someone you never met
Informational interviews are super important when you are new to an industry. This is an email template I used when I “cold” emailed many people for informational interviews.
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Little Listicles #3 (1-1)
1 major thing I learned, 1 insight/early idea
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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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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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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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Gutenberg Snippet: Retrieve taxonomy terms with compose, withSelect, and getEntityRecords
A snippet that I need to remember.
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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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The Beauty of FizzBuzz in CSS
In this CSS implementation of FizzBuzz, we can generate beautiful patterns with math!
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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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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!