@sierrajulietromeo.bsky.social - Steve(n) Rich

29 Apr 2025 07:32 +0000

When you play around with AI Studio in Azure, and inadvertently rack up a (relatively) huge bill... #azure Least it's only £30, (when my monthly bill is usually <£1).

01 Apr 2025 07:54 +0000

Working with a lot of md and Google Docs files, I love the ever increasing compatibility between them.

21 Jan 2025 08:18 +0000

C'mon Google Classroom - I don't want to ever ever schedule for in 24 hours time. I always always want to schedule today, in the next hour :-)

09 Jan 2025 13:49 +0000

@github.com Codespaces is my goto for programming classes. Got to love the names it gives to your VMs. 🚀

01 Jan 2025 13:28 +0000

Have to say, Starlink is very impressive tech. Just had a video call with my mum and dad whilst they are in the middle of the Atlantic on a cruise with Fred Olsen. Pretty crazy as they pan around to sea all around but a perfect video call. I get crapper reception in Manchester.

17 Dec 2024 18:22 +0000

Michael Kölling’s latest paper on Principles of Educational Programming Language Design is a great read. The whole journal has very interesting thought provoking papers. Recommended. https://infedu.vu.lt/journal/INFEDU/article/797/info

10 Dec 2024 16:30 +0000

Feeling the power of NotebookLM in my research into the history of CS education in England & Wales. 'Fed the machine my copies of the ICL-CES newsletter and hey presto, pull the figures from the various issues. Then paste that into Claude to give a quick interaction visualisation of that data.

06 Dec 2024 14:00 +0000

Was introduced to napkin.ai on Wednesday. Pro currently free in beta stage - give it some text, any text and it will create relevant diagrams and icons that you can use in your presentations, documents etc. Good as well if you're into dual coding. https://napkin.ai

03 Dec 2024 12:17 +0000

Renewed my Replit Pro account for another year. For all of the negative things that they've done, it's still worth it for my use cases to pay the $120 a year. I currently have 5 apps deployed with it, for examples for classes, fast Replit access and access to Replit AI & Agent.. cont..

24 Nov 2024 13:07 +0000

Great Saturday evening at the North West Computer museum in Leigh. A screening of “Micro Men” and then q&a with Professor Steve Furber.