What Rocks
Charlie HarringtonDispatches from Charlie Harrington about writing, old computers, and other nerdy hobbies.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 4 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 3 years ago |
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The CS Primer Show
After a three year hiatus, we’re back with a new podcast slash YouTube thing: The CS Primer Show.
If you’re into computer science — and learning about it! — you may already know Oz Nova from his intensive online programs at Bradfield Schoo...
Turning homepages into GIFs
I finally did some coding with ChatGPT, and we wrote a little script to turn homepages into animated GIFs using the Wayback Machine - an amazing historical record of websites over time.
Here’s a snapshot of Apple’s homepage since 1996:
Th...
By the numbers
A break in the rains! I should be outside, and not on my computer, and yet.
In what should definitely-definitely be my last post on Fahrenheit 52 (but no promises), I wrote about the project’s “stats” in a post called F52 By the Numbers....
Year of Short Stories
I wrote a short story every week in 2022. My goals were to get better at writing and to have fun. I'll let you be the judge of the former but I sure did have a good time. This is what they look like:
Colorful, right? Technically, there's 5...
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Computer programmer. Writing a children's book about robots.
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