Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@16af93

My home server is paleontology. I don’t totally belong here although I do talk about fossil ants now and then. If you want we have room for a biologist I think (though there may be cooler handles they might want) anyway let me know.

@dlakelan

I guess my original post is kind of unclear. What I'm trying to get away from are web apps.

That's what I mean by "I didn't like that it was an IDE in a browser."

Though we may land on something like this if I can't find a better alternative.

@b

Replit was so delightful and fun and it went the way of all apps in #Doctorow speed run.

There is no way to use it now without dealing with nonsense. Not even if you pay. Very sad.

I hate webaps.

@kirakira @alter_kaker

One of my sixth grade student **tattled on me** to the IT head because "she was hacking" (using terminal)

He just rolled around laughing for a full min.

@SeanPLynch @alter_kaker

I'm trying to get away from browser apps because they can change or be shut down at any moment.

Though we may end up just hoping to another service like this.

@nazokiyoubinbou

apple laptops are pretty easy to do command line stuff on even with all of the security software.

I'm very happy with the macbooks in that way.

@stevenaleach @alter_kaker

JupyterLab is OK but it's much more busy and confusing than trinkey.io which was perfect for fifth graders *without* limiting them much if they wanted to try to do some real coding.

It's a fine line.

@nazokiyoubinbou

If I worked for IT and was an linux expert I would do this. But as it stands I'm not dealing with their stuff and can't demand they learn a whole new thing and do a bunch of work. I just walk in and expect all t he computers to work.

And they do this very well.

@nazokiyoubinbou @alter_kaker

Can it read and write to text files in the same folder as the code?

Nothing we do is intensive, but I like to show them how to deal with files.

@alter_kaker

I made the seniors in advanced CS use ONLY terminal for a whole week and got a "thank you" letter from one at college.

"everyone thinks I'm a hacker this is amazing"

Yes, it is that easy I suppose.

@alter_kaker

What I could use is an app, that is in the "google play store" that you can buy, or is free... with no ads (non-negotiable about the ads, this is for school)

That was kind of an all in one python compiler and text editor.

On mac, python is in the command line and I use "thony" or other IDEs to work with it (or terminal if I want to scare the children)

But what do you do on a got dang chromebook?

I don't need to run big programs. Just turtle and scripts.

@glitzersachen

If they get it out by June I could try to set it up over the summer for next fall. But it takes time to make these things.

At least IT is now more on my side about not depending on webapps as much. I think they just thought I was being an anti-corporate hippie. Which (to be clear) I WAS. However. I'm also right.

@ben

Yup bad.

Trinket.io is shutting down.

I'm kind of bummed. It doesn't seem possible to spin up your own version on a local server so I need to decide what to do for fifth grade python programming by the end of the summer.

The head of IT put me on to trinket... I didn't like that it was an IDE in a browser. But It was clean.

Please don't tell me "just install linux on 300 chromebooks."

That would be nice, but it's not in my control. I could ask IT to add apps to the the chromebooks however.

@TheVoidTLMB

Brøther ... pleas ...

(Ya'll should use this meme imo)

@bloor

I mean... it's ... creative?

@saltywizard

They are a lovely native species and rather famous for attacking young fire ant queens just to eat them when they fly.

They mostly scavenge but are not above hunting if the getting is good enough.

@saltywizard

Also, provided that it was rather warm were they kind of... spastic and moving so much they almost seemed blurry?

@saltywizard

This is awesome and kind of creepy also. Thank you.

They look like "sunsprites" or Dorymyrmex bureni

Were they rather tiny and was this in the US, in the south or south west? (I'm doing a wild guess based on their color and shape and... enthusiasm.)

I really thought “reverse Polish notation” was like saying “it’s backwards and in Greek” LAMO

I just assumed dad’s old calculator was a little possessed. That “enter” repeated the operation again explains a lot.

(I mowed a lot of lawns to get away from that backward calculator—)