Not inspired to blog

One of the problems of setting myself a goal to blog regularly is that that reminder sneaks up on me, and here I am, with 25 minutes to write a blog post or I owe Beeminder five bucks. And that’s not going to work, so here I am writing.

I’ve been working on some front end stuff at work — nothing fancy, but it has a few things that move around on the page, and it’s definitely a learning experience for me. I like doing front end work. I like having something to show off.

I’ve also been volunteering on this mentorship with a middle schooler. We’re working on a web-based text adventure game. I chose a web based game because I know how to do Web pages. One thing that was really enlightening for me was thinking about how to do navigation. I realized that by creating a navigation system, we basically create a model of the world. Not only that, but games like Minecraft, text-based adventures, and real-life navigation like GPS all use the same principles.


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