I’m currently trying to map out what the future looks like for micromaterials, and I’ve been kicking around a few thoughts: it would be cool if there were a central place to discover all the micromaterials (like https://www.micromaterials.org/, but less restricted to just github) it would also be very nice if this central place offered […]

So git submodules aren’t really all that complicated, but because they’re wrapped in mystery and intrigue (much like rebase and reflog), they tend to be a bit less well understood. As any long-time readers of this blog will immediately guess, I’m going to say that’s mostly because submodules are merely unfamiliar, rather than being complicated. […]

Similar to the previous micromaterial on IP addresses, I decided to make something, primarily to help myself remember more details about netmasks. https://netmask-slider.netlify.com/   The short explanation is they are used to specify subnets (sub-networks) within networks, mostly so we don’t run out of IP addresses (slide the dot all the way to the left […]

I’m starting to move more into the area of tech-focused micromaterials, and this is part of a large shift towards a focus on TechEd. Does that term already exist? I googled around a bunch and couldn’t find any association with the way I’m using it, so I’m just gonna keep using it until somebody is […]

…or, do…but on the third syllable! here’s the web app (and it’s a PWA, so available offline!) source code at https://github.com/lpmi-13/stress-match-game This micromaterial is mostly an ode to my first love of corpus-informed word lists, the Academic Word List (Coxhead, 2000). Since these words tend to be multi-syllabic and a bit less common in informal […]

This isn’t about a micromaterial per se, but more about the data used to create micromaterials. I was reading an excellent blog post about word lists, and wondered how many of them were accessible in formats other than excel spreadsheets. I soon found out that a lot of them were actually in pdfs (notoriously difficult to […]

mathbuffet.party Thinking about different ways to manifest micromaterials, I decided to make one that would have helped me a bunch, back when I was learning about simple linear equations. The definition of a linear equation: y = mx + b is simple enough…but what does it really mean? Understanding that the “m” is equal to […]

source code on github Finally! Back to my roots of language-based micromaterials! During a perhaps unwise move to completely change stacks, deployment pipelines, and other fun technical stuff, my ability to work on new micromaterials like this slowed down for a bit, but I’m hoping to be back to adding to the growing list of […]

Who doesn’t love bringing things back to life?!?! Now my third non-language micromaterial, this one focuses on recovering a deleted local branch in git. Essentially if you have some work that you’ve completed and pushed somewhere remotely (or it’s stored on someone else’s computer), then you can always get a copy of the work back. […]

Since I’m having fun with these software micromaterials, I thought I’d continue on with another simple one. Along with working on rebasing, resolving merge conflicts is another thing that learners new to git need to work on. If you want the longer explanation, you can go straight to the Github repository, but the short version is […]