New Year’s Eve Greetings

Homebrew is a great way to easily install all sorts of command line goodies as easily as brew install. I use it to install programs such as Pandoc (convert between several different text formats or create ebooks) or ImageMagick (manipulate images from the command line). Tonight I went to install Mosh (remote access command line client), but was greeted by a series of…
Programming is a brand new literacy that is quickly becoming a necessity to using technology. When the subject of learning how to code comes up, some people mistake that for teaching everyone how to become programmers. That is not the reason to learn to code. The main reason for coding is to understand why technology is behaving how it…
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One underutilized feature of word processors is the ability to apply styles to text. I’ve mentioned styles in Google Docs before, but today I want to look into why you would use styles. In simplest terms, styles allow you to consistently format your document while also allowing you to change the look of an entire…
Provide visual proofreading advice on pieces of writing in Google Docs and export Google Doc comments into an organized table. Source: Revision Assistant – Google Docs add-on Once installed, Revision Assistant supercharges the basic edits/suggestions that is in Google Docs. With Revision Assistant, a teacher can mark up the document, offering ways to improve the…