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Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: July 22nd, 2020

It's been a while. Are things still wonderful?

Scott Hanselman
Jul 23, 2020
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Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: July 22nd, 2020

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Hi friends!
First things first! If there's any chance you found yourself on this newsletter by mistake, you can unsubscribe right now with my apologies. I do not collect emails for any purpose but this joyful newsletter and this is never intended to be spam. This newsletter is managed by Substack.

It’s been a while since I wrote one of these. I thought it was somewhat hard to find Wonderful Things lately, but I realized that I was still collecting them. They are out there. Here’s some things that I have made, others have made, and things that have made me and my family smile of late. I hope you are as well as you can be.

  • I’ve started making videos on YouTube lately. I’m rather proud of these “Computer Stuff They Didn’t Teach You,” particularly my Git 101 basics video. I recorded it in one take, no edits.

  • The Birds have had enough.

  • Microsoft Developer Division released a huge amount of diverse stock photography under Creative Commons that you can use in blogs and presentations!

  • GitHub now lets you set the skin tone of emoji to match your own! What a nice little inclusive touch.

  • Gift Egwuenu has a new YouTube Channel and a nice video on her favorite VS Code Extensions.

  • If you are working from home, have you built a nest? Remember that Quarantine Work doesn’t feel the same as Remote Work.

  • Because you want to see a dog eating a burrito on his human’s lap, who is also eating a burrito.

  • I figured out how to pin profiles in my browser so I have Edge for Personal and Edge for WERK.

  • I hope you are watching Star Wars in Machete Order.

  • Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health. It’s more wonderful if you stop. I’m trying to quit it myself.

  • You can use WSL2 on Windows 10 to do Machine Learning with your Video Card (GPU) now!

  • Alicia fixed her writer’s block by writing in her phone’s Notes app rather than in Word. It changed her outlook!

  • How Will We Imagine Life in the Year 2030? A wonderful comic book (PDF) explores that question, produced by BottledLightning.

  • Yale has FREE online courses on African American History.

  • KeyBR has great online Touch Typing Lessons

  • It seems Chimps have better short term memory that we do but they can’t code in React, so…

  • If you use Windows 10, check out the free Notepads (plural) app! It’s faster and nicer looking than Notepad.

  • Play the original “Celeste” on PICO-8, a virtual web-based console.

  • Microsoft Editor is a web plugin like Grammerly but is free with a Microsoft sign-in. Advanced features are free for Office 365 subscribers.

  • 37 ways that words can be wrong will get you thinking.

  • Why not register for Codeland:Distributed and attend this Thursday? I’ll be giving the “locknote” last talk. Thursday is FREE

  • LEGO is coming out with a Nintendo Entertainment System WITH TV made of LEGO so just give me this for Christmas.

  • A fascinating article showing how Michael Burnham’s space suits in Star Trek are closer to NASA’s work than you’d think.

  • My 12 year old is learning how to email…with some success?

  • They put an actual web camera on the back of an insect and I am not sure how I feel about it!

  • Have you seen Some Good News when they reunited the cast of The Office?

  • This person is running Doom *inside Windows Task Manager* by making each CPU core be a pixel. I don’t think it’s real, do you?

  • A lovely video where a Musical Theatre Coach reacts to “You’ll Be Back” from Hamilton.

  • This is the best rendition of “Lift Every Voice” you’ve ever heard.

I hope this little newsletter provided you some value and a little distraction. I appreciate you.

Scott

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