Education, Development, and Standards

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 05, 2025

• Education

  • Raspberry Pi ☛ New from Raspberry Pi Press: Unplugged Tots

    So, when I first met Hannah Hagon at the Cambridge Raspberry Pi Jam in 2023, her Unplugged Tots material — offline educational activities that set the stage for future programming — seemed very natural to me.

  • Jeff Triplett ☛ My DjangoCon US 2025 Plans (and How to Find Me)

    I really enjoy meeting new people whom I’ve met online, but I know that’s sometimes hard for people whom we have never met in person before. Conferences can be awkward and scary; we’ve all been there. Here’s a list of topics to help break the ice in case you find any of these interesting and want to talk more about them.

  • Rlang ☛ I’m supposed to present ‘Conformal Predictive Simulations for Univariate Time Series’ at COPA CONFERENCE 2025 in London…

    Publications related to the poster (in R and Python): [...]

• Programming/Development

  • Rlang ☛ rOpenSci Champions Second Cohort: Projects Wrap-Up

    As we welcome the third cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program, our second cohort has now completed the second phase of the program.
    In this article, we share each Champion’s project, their achievements, and their outreach activities.

  • Rlang ☛ Sending plain text emails when communicating with CRAN

    Because of delays with my scholarship payment, if this post is useful to you I kindly ask a minimal donation on Buy Me a Coffee that shall be used to continue my Open Source efforts.

  • Python

    • Rlang ☛ Creating self-contained executable Python scripts for rendering Quarto documents using the Jupyter engine

      Introduction
      In previous posts I have covered creating
      effectively multi-engine Quarto documents and also how to use
      uv virtual environments for the nbstata Jupyter kernel to run Quarto documents with Stata code.

    • GSOC: PyCups3 is Abstracting!

      Why PyCups3 is So Damn Intelligent

      In my last blog , I shared just how smart PyCups3 is. This time, let’s go one layer deeper and see why it’s so intelligent.

      But first, let’s warm up with a bit of Python magic. ✨

      What the Heck is a Dunder Method?

  • Rust

    • Rust Weekly Updates ☛ This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 615

      Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust!

• Standards/Consortia

  • Hackaday ☛ Returning To An Obsolete Home Movie Format

    A few years ago, I bought an 8 mm home movie camera in a second hand store. I did a teardown on it here and pulled out for your pleasure those parts of it which I considered interesting. My vague plan was to put a Raspberry Pi in it, but instead it provided a gateway into the world of 8mm film technology. Since then I’ve recreated its Single 8 cartridge as a 3D printable model, produced a digital Super 8 cartridge, and had a movie camera with me at summer hacker camps.

  • Jim Nielsen ☛ Trying to Make Sense of Casing Conventions on the Web

    (I present to you my stream of consciousness on the topic of casing as it applies to the web platform.)

    I’m reading about the new command and commandfor attributes — which I’m super excited about, declarative behavior invocation in HTML? YES PLEASE!! — and one thing that strikes me is the casing in these APIs.

    For example, the command attribute has a variety of values in HTML which correspond to Hey Hi (AI) in JavaScript. The show-popover attribute value maps to .showPopover() in JavaScript. hide-popover maps to .hidePopover(), etc.