Comment by portugueasey
1 day ago
I have a few projects on the run right now
Writing a sci-fi book, and it’s finally fleshed out to a point that it’s slightly readable, though more like a script. As this is all in markdown in one folder, with some text files as lists, I started writing a simple web project to keep track of it all.
Created a website for local community information, services, etc. Something that removes the reliance upon social media for this. It’s static, making hosting cheap, and in most cases free as it can run on vercel with contentful for blogs and github to store it. I’m sure there’s another project like it, but it’s always good to practice making something myself.
I was asked to show something for STEM week at my daughter’s school. Started a project to demonstrate AÍ to children. Uses very small training data set, you can write the beginning of a one sentence story, it can keep track of a configurable number of tokens, generates a given number of them. Allows taking steps through the process. This is the only one I’m vibe coding because I’m not entirely sure on how to implement it, plus I’ve added multiple models.
Have been working on a girlguiding page specifically for the division my wife volunteers with, as they relied upon the older district site that’s woefully lacking. Stuck waiting for approval.
I'd love to hear more about the STEM week one, if there's anything online you can share. What's the target age range?
I don’t even have it on GitHub yet, and I’ve been refining it little by little. Targeting at age 10, late primary school. It doesn’t go deep diving, it’s a light touch, and I think it needs more explanation.
I am a big fan of computer science education for kids that uses a light touch, or even completely offline - things like Computer Engineering for Babies, Turing Tumble, or any game that introduces basic concepts with intuition as opposed to showing the final product of decades of abstraction.