https://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lyvsnggni222Nothing makes me love my past self more than finding the check list of all the things to do when getting ready to teach a course again.15 Sep 2025 22:01 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyvsnggni222https://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lygs3jhw322fSome things we've been saying in a place where you can see us say them... [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Sep 2025 22:41 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lygs3jhw322fhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lydm5r3m422jI don't know who pushed for the overleaf list-of-projects page to have a pdf button for each project, but I bet they had tenure.08 Sep 2025 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lydm5r3m422jhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lt2y4p3vr22sFrom an information theory perspective we should have a process for replacing rarely used short words with longer words in order to free up room for new short words. Lute, asp, vex, yak, cud — these are so inefficient. Please nominate others and propose new uses for these.03 Jul 2025 14:52 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt2y4p3vr22shttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lsbzbp5kpc2mThe main daily newspaper of a major American city -- my city -- has an interactive graphic that the editors allowed to be called the Dumper Dinger Tracker. And I love it.23 Jun 2025 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsbzbp5kpc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lrivu3qb5k2lThere are only two ways to feel like a wealthy professor: 1. Actually be wealthy 2. Get all-new whiteboard markers for your office13 Jun 2025 16:58 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrivu3qb5k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lqt7tcz4m22yPhenomenal work by folks down the metaphorical hall [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Jun 2025 01:58 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqt7tcz4m22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lqh2vgvze22tWe’re doing a thing. Tell your Seattle friends. [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 May 2025 05:58 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqh2vgvze22thttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lpcflzdkhk2lThe penduluum-swing of emotions as you go to find the video link on your calendar for your 9AM meeting, see there are two separate meeting entries for the same meeting (uh-oh!), but they both have the same link (mayhem averted!)16 May 2025 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpcflzdkhk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lp5h2xx4522mWhy is it called "cut and paste with formatting" and not "a bold move"?14 May 2025 16:44 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp5h2xx4522mhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3ln4g4ppt7k2nSome days I'm just regular evil and then there are the days like today where I'm nested VLOOKUP plus an INDIRECT evil.18 Apr 2025 20:04 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln4g4ppt7k2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3llzffyba2k2h401notok04 Apr 2025 21:48 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3llzffyba2k2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3llzewlormk2hThere's something oddly exciting about snoozing an only modestly-important email until mid-summer and it stems from the notion of, "oh, this will surprise in a small but positive way my future self."04 Apr 2025 21:39 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3llzewlormk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lkdt7yutw22tThe world is so irrational it’s like every day is Pi Day14 Mar 2025 14:31 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkdt7yutw22thttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3ljvftukxu22rThis was in the context of a thread, but it might be funnier without the context. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Mar 2025 20:54 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljvftukxu22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3ljngtrcm4s2oI have made this plea before. I am begging for someone to point me to a desktop utility that lets me point at or select a portion of the screen containing a qr code and then follow the link. I should not have to point a camera at the screen to test it.05 Mar 2025 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljngtrcm4s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3ljng5k4di22oOne of my most old-fashioned / dinosaur-like opinions is strong opposition to having staging/test versions of course websites. Version control is fine, but just push straight to production. If you break it, fix it. Forgetting to post something is the far bigger issue.05 Mar 2025 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljng5k4di22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3ljkt6fmwl22cNew favorite computer-science typo: treat model04 Mar 2025 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljkt6fmwl22chttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3ljgg7zs6rc2rYoung enough to typically be able to get the printer to work, but old enough to be surprised when I am able to get the printer to work.02 Mar 2025 21:51 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljgg7zs6rc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lis6c7xmac2rI did not know until today that Dvorak patented his eponymous keyboard while a professor at the University of Washington. I've still never used it, but it does make me slightly more curious.22 Feb 2025 20:36 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lis6c7xmac2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lhuktqvulk2rI’m not a tax professional but removing a forced-air system from your home is surely a deduction.11 Feb 2025 02:01 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhuktqvulk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lhs7l6i2ss2zThe first decision to actually make sense is designed to literally not make cents10 Feb 2025 03:34 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhs7l6i2ss2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lhrka5vws22rI am actually, unironically, a big fan of what I've seen of elementary-school math instruction over the last several years. And I think they should add a unit on how a 50% surcharge means ONE THIRD NOT ONE HALF of the total charge is the surcharge. Apologies for yelling.09 Feb 2025 21:12 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhrka5vws22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lhmp74a77k2tToday after a presentation showing UTF8 is backward compatible to ASCII (every ASCII file is a UTF8 file), I recalled this is only my 2nd-favorite backward-compatibility story. The winner: Every Windows executable is a DOS executable that prints, "This program cannot be run in DOS mode" and exits.07 Feb 2025 22:57 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhmp74a77k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lgydtkl7ck24Students may be surprised to learn that [long-distance] phone companies used to be in the taxi business -- the longer the meter ran the better -- but managed to switch to the gym business -- maintain membership fees and hope there isn't overuse. The point is funding models can change.30 Jan 2025 20:41 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgydtkl7ck24https://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lgti42f4ts2nThis is peak trolling [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jan 2025 22:14 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgti42f4ts2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lgqlv3m2rk24One of the surer signs that I am Older and Wiser (tm) is that I'm much more likely to write "final (?) version" than "final version."27 Jan 2025 18:44 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgqlv3m2rk24https://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lglq3sik6k2jToday is a uniquely (???) Seattle holiday-not-a-holiday. Our sunset today is at 5:00pm and will be no earlier until DST ends in the fall.25 Jan 2025 20:16 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lglq3sik6k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social/post/3lgbklpwvls24Apparently this conversation keeps re-happening independently: "Our customer database has date of birth" "Yes, so?" "So we could script sending Happy Birthday emails" "But, why? Our product has nothing to do with birthdays" "Because we can" "Okay, let's do it"21 Jan 2025 19:11 +0000at://did:plc:umylqg7h6o7p4zqagpki5bq3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgbklpwvls24