FRIDAY LINKS IS BACK, BABY.
It has been six weeks since the last Friday Links, I googled “friday links” and the top two hits were both BERG. It was then that the gravity of the situation hit me. Many people employ offices full of gap year arts students to write fluff pieces linking to their blog in order to gain the coveted top hit on Google. We got there just by tirelessly posting links every Friday. And then they just slipped away.
Well, this is the relaunch. Friday Links is Britney, and the last six weeks were it’s 2007. I’ll be fighting tooth and nail and bullying who I have to bully to get Friday links on the blog each week from now on.
FIRST LINK:
http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
This post has been all over Twitter and for good reason. In a lengthly but well worth reading essay Bret Victor responds to the Khan Academy’s online environment for learning to program. What results is a brilliant specification for an interactive environment for acquiring the mindset for coding. I hope somebody takes this design and runs with it.
NEXT UP:
I saw this via @fat on Twitter. Swiping though GIFs! I dare you not to lose 15 minutes just clicking and swiping.
PENULTIMATELY:
So, do you want to see what the guy who lead the team that invented the Roomba, Rodney Brooks, is up to now? (The answer is a definitive ‘yes’). Since leaving his post as CTO of iRobot in 2008, Brooks has been working on a robot that he hopes will revitalise American manufacturing:
“My aspirations are high for this robot. This is the first mass-produced, slightly sentient humanoid robot”
Here’s the video:
AND FINALLY:
This article about the cave systems that run under Nottingham has made me want to visit Nottingham quite a lot: http://bldgblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/caves-of-nottingham_11.html
Feel free to tweet about our exciting relaunch using the #fridaylinks hashtag.
One Comment or Trackback
1. Jacopo said on 29 September 2012...
Thank you for bringing them back. I missed them.