In 2019 I published "Introduction to APIs" on freeCodeCamp.org. Since it's launch it's been viewed by about ~4 milli👀n learners! These days, 2019 feels like it's ~30 years ago, so today, I'm super excited to share an entirely updated version 🧵

I have found the single best use of chatGPT ever, "In the tone of a professional British Academic, re-write the following email written by an American Academic:" I am getting a FAR better replies to my emails and I'm upsetting way fewer people by complete accident.

🎙 Episode 076: Elm and Vite is out! Lindsay Wardell joins us to talk about Vite and how to set it up for your Elm project. elm-radio.com/episode/vite

Underdog Devs is coming up on the next cohort for Project Underdog. Underdog Devs helps aspiring devs who are formerly incarcerated or from an economically disadvantaged background. If you're interested in participating, please apply! underdogdevs.org

What rhymes with paid off but isn't as fun? Yep! Your second favorite magical girl got laid off this morning. It's sad, of course, but I'm going to lean into my resilient side and do my best. ✨ 💪🏾 If you know of opps in devrel, frontend, or accessibility, let's chat!

Every-time I see this picture of Piaget's office I get so happy.

Oh, hi. I’m Shana (rhymes w today). I’m a producer w over 21 years of pro game dev exp. I’ve produced Resident Evils & Street Fighters, HoloLens & Outer Worlds. I’m the Manager of Third Party Production at Oculus. 👾 I’m GDC’ing alllll week. Yeah, this is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike

So I have a pet snail now. 🐌 Their name is Devon, because I happened to be reading some articles by Devon Price the day I found this Cornu aspersum cutie. I hope that's taken as a compliment! 😆 Also, #TIL these lil mollusks can easily live more than a decade!

Playing around with making Android apps again (but this time making my UI in Elm wrapped up in Capacitor !) ... and this is how complex the Android API has become just to decide which function to call to set an alarm on my phone. Ughhh. (via medium.com/@igordias/andr…)

A celebration of the shiny new ✨aperiodic mono-tile✨ Maths is definitely not done yet!

"When the final cockroach breathes her last breath, her dying act will be to scratch her date of death in a CSV file for posterity." 🪳 -- via docs for github.com/secretGeek/Awe…, a curated list of tools for working with CSV formatted data. Bonus fun fact: CSV dates back to 1972!

It's Autism Awareness Month, so over the next 30 days I'll be sharing lots of content to educate, spread awareness, and debunk some misperceptions about autism. In this post, I'll attempt to explain why "everyone is a little bit autistic" is not accurate. Here goes...

In 1937, the French mathematician Victor Thébault discovered that if you construct squares on the sides of any parallelogram, their centers form another square when connected

Ready to NASA Citizen Science? NASA’s citizen science projects can be done by anyone, anywhere, with a cellphone or a laptop! This #CitSciMonth, browse through more than 30+ projects & begin making your own scientific discoveries: go.nasa.gov/3KrSRVE

I found a tree that smells exactly like grape soda! Anyone familiar woth these?? Psoralea pinnata, often called the "Kool-Aid Bush":

Walkable cities. Do we want them or not? It’s a choice we collectively make every day. Cartoon via Nathan W Pyle

Tech bros: hey writers! guess what? We've solved your biggest problem! Writers: OMG that's so awesome! We're going to be paid a living wage? Tech bros: Writers: The deeply disfunctional publishing world is going to improve somehow? Tech bros: Writers: Health insurance!?

Last time I wore this shirt at a tech conference, everyone just smiled and laughed, this time I get questions after the laughter to clarify my stance. Do I mean it? A shift indicator.