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Soulful Computing Newsletter
Let's talk about source code. Here's a program. Right now, your instinct is to immediately delete this newsletter, thinking you've made a terrible decision. "After ten words, he's showing me computer code. Oh no. Why did I willingly subscribe to this?
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This week felt covered by a bit of a fog. Let's see if I can cut through it a bit. * I put in some back-end work on this site. I'm using the Gridsome static site generator to build this site now. I did take some time
This post contains disturbing images, references to traumatic events, and non-medical discussion of anxiety disorder. On August 4, 2020, at 6 PM (GMT+3), a massive explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, killed and wounded many people and caused major damage to a large part of the city. I learned about the
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MIT is, rightfully, addressing physical campus access with a considered and careful approach. Most staff members are unable to return to our campus. People authorized to be onsite need to complete medical testing and daily attestation for tracking. The museum has been making progress on regaining access by arguing we
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Cranking out this week's notes in rapid fashion and keeping it especially short and sweet because: 1. I don't believe anybody is actually reading these. 2. Ergo, I'm practicing faster output with almost zero risk. 3. I don't want to break the
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Worlds Colliding We're kicking off a new round of galleries for our upcoming transition to Kendall square. I'm finding myself playing catchup on some new topics but also am super excited by what we're planning in our Collections Gallery and Workshop. We're
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* I skipped last week's weeknotes because last Friday, I was on Day 2 of a long 5-day weekend to clear the head and not think too hard about work or anything else, for that matter. * I read Make Time a couple of weekends ago. It has a smart
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Here's what happened this week: * I had several Kendall museum meetings about digital experiences, including a deep dive into the infrastructure requirements for delivering these projects. I also sketched out a new esolang based on one of the designs the developers presented. We have some nascent ideas about
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Another week goes by as if it wasn't there at all. A colleague referencing time compression shared with me a humorous take -- and by "humorous" I mean "terrifyingly resonant." MIT this week announced some initial decisions about the fall semester. I was quite
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After feeling burnt out last week, I took it easy on myself these past few days. I have a pile of winter clothes with small rips to repair, socks to darn, etc. Slowly repairing them in meditative quiet, one stitch at a time. We also had our roof replaced this
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So let's get this part out of the way. I am drafting these weeknotes on a Friday afternoon of what feels like a lost week in what is turning out to be a lost year. Anyone reading this in June of 2020 will completely understand why. Time seems
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I've been following with keen interest this story re: 3D scans of an Egyptian bust at the Neues Museum in Berlin. In 2016 two artists seemingly smuggled a scanning rig into the museum, took a 3D digital image of the bust, and then sent 3D printed replicas back