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Embrace the complexity. Around 1:00 AM, on a night just before… | by Simon Katan | Aug, 2020 | Medium

Simon Katan on teaching peripheral skills around computing, computation, and code. I agree wholeheartedly with his description of tools that shield users from complexities to the extent of hiding how things actually work. I also loved his idea of "flour babies for looking after code properly".

(tags: simonkatan education code pedagogy terminal cli )
memory metadata – When I take a photograph of my sister and niece on my iPhone, my memory is transformed into something else. What, exactly, does my memory become, and what are the broader consequences of its transformation?

Filed away as a nice introduction to computational sensing, vision, and how computers don't see.

(tags: photography pixels metadata computervision howcomputersdontsee )