Coding Reflections

• Three Lessons in Life, Writing, and Learning from Super Mario

  1. Face Your Demons I’ve been having a tough time coming up with a topic to blog about this week. My informal weekly deadline of Wednesday has passed and, as I write, I’m not certain if or how this post will come to be.  After sharing my sense of writer’s block with the lovely community…

• Failing with Style

  

  “This isn’t flying, this is falling with style!”  Eight-year-old me cheered as Buzz Lightyear embraced the very line Woody had first flung as an insult towards him. It was a joyous, fist-punching-in-the-air moment in Toy Story, as the two companions soared away from imminent danger. Magic!  At that moment, the idea of falling with style…

• A Lesson in Code and Craft from Ada

  The year was 1815.  Annabella Milbanke, a deeply religious and mathematically gifted young lady from an aristocratic family, had just given birth. The child’s father was Lord Byron, the great Romantic poet and a notorious playboy.  A scandal was inevitable.  Just three days later, Byron would set sail away from England with his mistress, never…