Paul Cantrell / is on Nostr

Composer, pianist, programmer, professor, rabble rouser, redhead

Computer Science at https://www.macalester.edu/mscs/
(Student projects: https://devgarden.macalester.edu)
Artistic Director of https://newruckus.org
Freelance dev, often with https://bustout.com
Musical troublemaker https://innig.net/music/

The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.
— Carolyn Forché

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Personal site: https://innig.net
Pronouns: he/him or they/them
Lives in: Minneapolis, MN
Born & raised in: Ft. Collins, CO

Last Notes

2024-07-28 17:13:50

I’ll second this from @npub1al7…j3vh. As a person nonreligious by belief and by upbringing, it’s been easy for me to be dismissive of religion — but the fact is I’ve known •far• too many really kind, really intelligent, really •good• religious people to hold on to any kind of Dawkinsian smugness about my worldview. Finding acceptance for outlooks I don’t share has made some really important relationships possible that would not have been otherwise. +1 would recommend
https://hachyderm.io/@suzannealdrich/112865091220889870

2024-07-26 23:17:22

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My personal opinion? I see things I like very much, and things I could critique. But the bottom line is that this is the kind of approach and the kind of language the Biden administration should have been using from the beginning of Israel’s invasion of Gaza.
The idea that the Biden admin could have unilaterally ended the Gaza war at any time is fantastical nonsense, just foolish magical thinking. But Biden •could• have taken this kind of approach — and it would have saved lives.
2/2 #uspol

2024-07-26 23:13:39

I would encourage anyone who cares about Palestine to watch this video clip, from the beginning to the end. It paints a clear picture, I think, of the kind of framing and tone we should expect from a possible Harris administration.
1/2 #uspol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/jul/26/i-will-not-be-silent-harris-voices-concern-for-gaza-after-meeting-with-netanyahu-video

2024-07-11 18:19:41

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Really glad you made it out.

2024-03-30 21:51:03

Free software, eh, fine, whatever.
What does •sustainable• software look like?
From [@jenniferplusplus](https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus):
https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/112186616713940876

2024-03-23 15:16:31

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ChatGPT.
I had her type “react usestate” into a search engine and showed her how to identify the React project’s •actual documentation• in the search results.
She looks at it. A long pause. Then: “This is SO much better.”
After who knows how many hours of struggle, she was unstuck in 5 minutes.
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2024-03-23 15:13:47

Yesterday a student came to me with project questions. She was trying to learn some ground-level tool basics (how useState works in React, but details don’t matter), and she was just hopelessly confused: the pieces were there, fragments of nascent understanding littered all around, but somehow it just wasn’t coming together for her.
She walked me through her fragments of non-working code, and as I was trying to figure out how she’d got so lost, she popped back to her documentation source:
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