What I Learned From Two Years of Teaching High School CS | Charlie Meyer’s Blog Home Blog 16 Jun, 2023 Leaving Teaching I’m posting this on my last day teaching high school computer science. In the past two years, I’ve … Read more
What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week hits Apple, Anchor, and everywhere else … Read more
Online subscriptions — especially newspaper subscriptions — have a reputation for being notoriously difficult to cancel. The process for cancelling a subscription has been compared to everything from beating Minesweeper to slaying a dragon in Mordor. So, when I was … Read more
The class I’m taking this semester, CSCI 1710: Logic for Systems, covers model checking with Forge. Forge is practically custom-made for 1710, though it’s effectively an alternative implementation of Alloy, which is somewhat better-known. Forge is developed by Tim Nelson … Read more
I read 1,000 investor reports last year. It’s part of my job. Along the way I’ve learned a few things I’d like to share — from the very basics to some that may surprise you. Why should founders send monthly … Read more
Over the past week or so, I’ve been trying out using Docker to deploy a Django site on a VPS. My preferred setup for that is to have Caddy running on the host, not in any container, as a reverse … Read more
I began last year with a goal to really understand machine learning. I feel utterly lucky to be alive at a time when software is taking its first tentative steps into the realm of intelligence, and I want front row … Read more
After a little over 5 years, I’m going to be leaving GitLab for my next adventure. It’s not surprise to those of you who have been following me that I have absolutely loved my time there. I’m so proud of … Read more
September 2022 I recently told applicants to Y Combinator that the best advice I could give for getting in, per word, was Explain what you’ve learned from users. That tests a lot of things: whether you’re paying attention to users, … Read more
Image from Dev Asangbam (Unsplash) “Well, f**k…” I thought to myself while I waited for my boss to answer my call. I’m sure that all he wanted to hear on a Friday morning was one of his senior leaders just … Read more