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Vaccinated.
Virus: SARS-CoV-2
Vaccine: Oxford / AstraZeneca
Dose number: 1
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Day 100 of #100DaysOfSwiftUI: without distinction
Thanks to @twostraws for an exceptionally high quality SwiftUI course. It’s taken me 499 days to get this done, but worth every devoted hour.
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Day 99 of #100DaysOfSwiftUI: always seeking snow
Final challenge day, and not lazy for a change. All challenges complete. With care and attention.
“Tomorrow we’ll discover
What our god in heaven has in store!
One more dawn, one more day, one day more!" -
Splash of the Titans:
Mathieu van der Poel on his way to besting Wout van Aert in the battle for the cyclocross rainbow bands in Ostend. Not often bike races take place in the North Sea.
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Cumbria County Council get free pass from UK government to allow a new coal mine:
“[Projected emissions are] greater than the level of annual emissions we have projected from all open UK coalmines to 2050.”
— Lord Deben, reported by The Guardian
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🎵 ‘Caterpillar’, Hamish Hawk
New single from the sensational Hamish Hawk (Twitter: @HHawkOfficial).
Bit of an early 80s indie vibe going on with this one, with Byrne-esque visuals.
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The first meeting of our virtual Professional Learning Community breakfast club is tomorrow morning. The topic? Retrieval Practice. Want a primer?
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Last quarter of 2020:
- Apple sales > 850,000 USD a minute
- Food banks
Mind-blowing.
Apple today announced financial results for its […] quarter ended December 26, 2020. The Company posted all-time record revenue of $111.4 billion
— Apple PR
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Current favourite tools for teaching Maths (synchronous, remote):
DrFrostMaths: https://www.drfrostmaths.com/
Whiteboard.fi: https://whiteboard.fi
And good old PDFs with an iPad and Apple Pencil.
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Day 98 of #100DaysOfSwiftUI: first degree burns
Last project complete, bar the inevitable challenges. And two days to go…
“Nae man can tether Time nor Tide,
The hour approaches Tam maun ride;” -
It’s easier to quote words than live by them:
“O ye wha are sae guid yoursel’,
Sae pious and sae holy,
Ye’ve nought to do but mark and tell
Your neibours’ fauts and folly!”— Address to the Unco Guid, Robert Burns
But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.
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Day 97 of #100DaysOfSwiftUI: lobbest thou thy code
How many days left?
“Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three.”
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Day 96 of #100DaysOfSwiftUI: oxford can do commas
Just started looking at building SwiftUI views for iPad.
Four days left to finish this off and squeeze in Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch. Simple.
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Day 95 of #100DaysOfSwiftUI: always rolling
I wonder if @jamesthomson knows that this course has been building up to creating an army of Dice by PCalc ‘clones’?
Don’t worry James, I am not a threat to your empire.
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When an America-curious young Scot decides he wants to explore the culture and personality of the nation across the pond in early 2021, what should he do?
Start a podcast, of course! And what a time in history to do so.
🎙 Lewis Davie presents They The People
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2004 - SQA launch SOLAR built on Adobe Flash
2017 - Flash deprecated
2020 - Flash ‘End of Life’d
2021 - SOLAR requires Flash-embedded viewer app
Scotland needs an open, national conversation about digital/remote assessment. And investment.
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When your employer suggests that it’s maybe time for a virtual home visit to check that your working environment meets health and safety requirements you know you have been working from home for too long…
I have requested a badge if I can make it a full year!
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Inauguration thought on legacy:
Our blunders become their burdens. But one thing is certain.
If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change our children’s birthright. -
CNN described today as “The Trump Show: Season Finale”, and all I could think was… I bet the first Holiday Special is already in pre-production.
Best of luck tomorrow, America. 🇺🇸
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“I think The Mandalorian is a sophisticated show, and it is expressed through it’s simplicity.”
– Guy English, @gte, appearing with @siracusa on @gruber’s The Talk Show Mandalorian Holiday Spectacular.
