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I’ve been doing capoeira for about a year now. It’s very fun and a great martial art for geeks (singing! dancing! friendly people!). I really recommend it if you’re trying to get into shape or build strength/flexibility. Different capoeira schools use different sequences of moves, and I’ve never been able to find the ones myContinue reading “Mestre Boneco’s Training Sequences”

Last night, I went to an information session about TEALS, a volunteer program where software engineers teach CS to high school students on their way to work. Basically, the schools schedule the CS class for first period so that the engineers can make it into work by 9:30. There are four programmer volunteers per classContinue reading “TEALS – Teaching CS on your way to work”

I recently switched this blog to using Digital Ocean for hosting, so please let me know if you notice anything broken. On a side note, Digital Ocean is amazing and I highly recommend it to anyone who needs web hosting. You know how Github makes working with Git repos so pleasant? Digital Ocean does theContinue reading “Hello, Digital Ocean!”

Some RSS housekeeping: If you haven’t subscribed, subscribe over RSS or email! If you subscribed within the last couple of years, thank you and you don’t need to do anything. If you subscribed more than three years ago, please make sure you’re subscribed to kchodorow.com, not snailinaturtleneck.com. This site has been permanently redirecting to kchodorow.comContinue reading “Update Your Feeds”

After getting Google Glass, I started wearing it around. Every day I’ve worn it, someone has asked me about it. A waiter even asked to try it on (which I let him, not like he was going to run off). Only guys have asked me about it, but that might be because guys tend toContinue reading “Glupdate”

On Friday, I got Glass, which is pretty cool so far. I got to “bring a guest,” so Andrew and I went over to the Glass studio in Chelsea Market after work. I had been there before for a workshop on designing Glassware (or, as I prefer to call them, Glapplications), so I knew thatContinue reading “Hello, Glass”

I read a great blog called Ask a Manager, which recently posted a question that I think had more of a technical than business solution: [New coworker’s] HTML and CSS work are terrible. This is his first “real” job out of college, so I understand that he has some catching up to do as farContinue reading “Getting Better All the Time via Code Review”

Last week, I volunteered at an NYU event (hosted by my old club!) to teach high school girls how to program. It totally changed my mind about what to use to teach kids how to program: they should start with Scratch. It probably helped that one of Scratch’s creators, Tammy Stern, introduced it. In aContinue reading “Scratches & Bruises”

I flipped to the next slide. “You can think of MapReduce like a chicken… ” I couldn’t think of the verb. “Like…” I looked out at the audience and tried to concentrate. What was the verb for what a chicken did to create eggs? It felt like my brain was at a standstill, all thatContinue reading “MongoSF”

On Thursday, I did a “Speed Mentoring” event at Google, where a Barnard & Columbia woman had five minutes to ask a Googler questions and then we’d move on to the next student. It was an odd format for mentoring, but I think by the end I had a useful set of quick advice forContinue reading “Speed Mentoring”