Working Remote

Thu Apr 09 2020

Last week I watched my professor drone on for seven hours about computer circuitry. As my eyes struggled to stay open as he babbled about SR-latches, I wondered: what sequence of dreadful mistakes did I make to land myself in this situation. I got through my entire college career without pulling a single all-nighter, yet that night changed it all.

Although I could have followed along with the lecture material during the regular class time, remote learning made a tantalizing temptation to procrastinate and binge two and a half weeks of lecture material in one night –two nights before the exam. Ironically, I ended up doing remarkably well on that exam and felt prepared for every question; nerveless, it still begs the question… Why? After asking around, I found that all eight of my friends taking the class also binged the lecture videos before the exam.

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The Rise of Profile Photos

Fri Apr 03 2020

Given enough time in a shower, you develop shower thoughts – but mostly you get pruney fingers. Given the current social distancing measures, everyone has taken to the internet to get their work done. I am now working, taking classes, and hanging out with friends on the internet on a daily basis. The omnipresent prevalence of online platforms has gotten me thinking a lot about how we express our identity on the internet. Specifically, profile pictures have seized my attention lately.

On the internet, you can express yourself in ways that are infeasible in real life. The very notion of a profile with a bio and a brave little emblem representing you at your best is a new paradigm. This gives immense control over your first impressions on the internet– something that we desperately wish for in the real world.

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Community Architecture

Wed Mar 25 2020

This is my submission for RIT’s HFOSS Community architecture project. Due to the COVID situation, several changes have been made since I drafted the project proposal. First, this is no-longer a group project. Second, this project is now more focused on comparing the project architectures of two communities rather than running analytics like git by a bus.

Exploring what works and what does not work for different projects can give us valuable insight into trying to create new communities. This is what is truly beautiful about open-source software in its openness giving us the ability to learn from it.

1 Project Introduction

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Community Architecture Proposal

Thu Mar 05 2020

This is the community architecture proposal for RIT’s HFOSS class.

1 Members

Jeffery R: (jxr8142)
Ben G: (bag4482)
Yann M: (ylm8490)

1.1 Project Selection

We are doing our project on Oh My Zsh. We chose this project because two of our members use Oh My Zsh on a daily basis. We believe that this is a fun project that many people would enjoy using and contributing to.