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trick, 1 month ago to TodayILearned

Question for teachers out there: If you're learning to teach a foreign language, what resources or material do you learn from? Does it differ if you're a native speaker teaching others to speak your language?

I am not looking for tools for me to learn languages. I am trying to understand the meta-education which goes into language teaching.

#teaching #teachers #language #linguistics

trick, 2 months ago to random

So, Mastodon and X enable easy embedding of their posts on other websites.

BlueSky has a solution generated by a 3rd-party (there was another one which went away.)

Threads gives you a way to generate a code, but all it does is load up a box and link to Threads.

Super disappointing to see the willingness to let the walled garden thrive, but not surprising.

trick, 2 months ago to random

So, apparently, Bimbo Bread is named for its parent company, the Mexican "Grupo Bimbo" which was founded in the 1940s.

In trying to figure out where 'Bimbo' in the name came from I found their corporate website. It states that the name is a combination of "Bingo" and "Bambi." That's... interesting.

trick, 4 months ago to random

Very sad at the Mozilla annual report and the sad future for Firefox.

trick, 4 months ago to UX

When logging into a website, what is the benefit of asking for email, making me hit submit, and then asking me for my password? Why not accept both at once? #UX #UI #UIUX

trick, 4 months ago to random

I remain saddened by the state of Android Mastodon apps compared to the offerings on Apple.

trick, 4 months ago to random

Went to Barnes & Noble with family and picked up:

• SPQR by Mary Beard
• The Creative ACT: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin - https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-creative-act-a-way-of-being-rick-rubin/18543579

Looking forward to diving into both of them.

trick, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

"Why isn't new year's on the winter solstice?" - Romans sucked at calendars and we haven't abandoned it yet.

Here's a post on github which dives into just how bad they were at it

https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/3754e00a37fe81aa43aad3eb9543f3ce

Since this is getting some traction, want to call out it as being written by @noelle

trick, 5 months ago to random

Sharing in case this ends up hanging anyone else up. My Pi-hole was blocking my ability to interact with the Dominos website to order dinner. I had to disable it to use the website at all.

trick, 5 months ago to random

Wow. The Reign are going to be unrecognizable if both Lavelle and Sonnett go to Gotham.

trick, 5 months ago to random

Doing my part to clean out the freezer before my mother-in-law arrives for the holidays. Just forced myself to finish off some ice cream.

trick, 5 months ago to random

Sunday is for sorting cards.

trick, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

A blog post discussing the new #computer, highlighting a few learnings, a few mistakes I made, and just generally being excited about the machine. #buildapc

https://www.trickjarrett.com/entry-5a33d2f3.html

trick, 5 months ago to random

Today's plan: Watch Lord of the Rings and build my new computer.

trick, 5 months ago to random

I'm having a Shazam moment. I would have sworn Ron Howard directed Forrest Gump (it was Zemeckis.)

trick, 5 months ago to random

First big snag on the new PC. I decided to start assembling it tonight despite the video card not arriving until Tuesday. As it turns out, good thing I did. The cooler I had ordered is too big for the case. I had ordered a 3-fan AIO cooler from Corsair and it's too big, I'll have to size down to their two-fan or look at another option altogether.

trick, 5 months ago to random

I'm daydreaming of a cheap gadget with an e-ink display which has a passive NFC sensor, and when activated it updates the display of the e-ink screen. Basically current tech for digital store price labels, but dirt cheap.

I want it for easily updating the labels on the drawers for my sorted Magic cards. Right now I use dry erase labels, which work fine. But it would be nicer looking for them to be e-ink displays.

trick, 6 months ago to random

So I'm about to embark on building a new PC, something I haven't truly done in about a decade. I'm trying to understand NVMEs alongside traditional and SSD drives.

I'm looking for mid-level gaming, video editing / streaming maybe.

Is there a reason I should go with at least one NVME?

trick, 6 months ago to random

So this is new. Something changed and I can no longer type in Google Docs in Firefox on my Linux boot. Account works fine in Firefox on Windows.

trick, 6 months ago to random

This morning I have discovered streamlink, a CLI app for launching streams in VLC player (among others.) This will greatly assist in watching streams on my TV without having to remote desktop into the Raspberry Pi.

https://streamlink.github.io/index.html

trick, 6 months ago to random

You ever sit home and think about how Firefox was Firebird was Phoenix after it forked from Netscape?

trick, 7 months ago to random

The dogs are determined not to let me nap any today

trick, 7 months ago to random

When you don't prep a combat session believing your D&D group is smart enough to not force it. 🤡

trick, 7 months ago to random

Does anyone else refuse to capitalize internet? I know it's supposed to be. But my brain just simply refuses to do it.

trick, 7 months ago to MarvelSnap

Threw together a simple deck in #MarvelSnap for the new card and am enjoying it so far.