Last week, I started my three-month “batch” at the Recurse Center, which is described as a “tuition-free self-directed educational retreat for programmers.” The point of it is to get better at programming computers, by spending your days hanging out with 50 or so other people who are there for the same reason. Attending RC is something I’ve wanted to do for several years, but until very recently, I never thought I’d be able to (due to time and money, mostly, but I suddenly found myself with a ton of the former and a mild surplus of the latter).
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Last week, I started my three-month “batch” at the Recurse Center, which is described as a “tuition-free self-directed educational retreat for programmers.” The point of it is to get better at programming computers, by spending your days hanging out with 50 or so other people who are there for the same reason. Attending RC is something I’ve wanted to do for several years, but until very recently, I never thought I’d be able to (due to time and money, mostly, but I suddenly found myself with a ton of the former and a mild surplus of the latter).
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Setting the stage Some time ago, I found something on the internet that I thought was pretty nifty: “whatcolourisit.scn9a.org” (edit 2019-02-25: it seems that domain is now serving malware instead of the time as a hex representation of HTML color; you can read about the original here, or just read the next paragraph). If you’d like to take a moment to check it out, go for it; it won’t take long.
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Setting the stage Some time ago, I found something on the internet that I thought was pretty nifty: “whatcolourisit.scn9a.org” (edit 2019-02-25: it seems that domain is now serving malware instead of the time as a hex representation of HTML color; you can read about the original here, or just read the next paragraph). If you’d like to take a moment to check it out, go for it; it won’t take long.
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