(2020-01-07) Pereira High And Low

Jared Pereira: High and low. A silly editor: I’ve been hacking away at Fancinote an ill-advised text-editor/notetaking app.

It’s heavily inspired by org-mode which I use to take notes and even run my website, for a bit.

The (currently unimplemented) keystone feature of Fancinote is embedded code blocks that interact with documents. I want to be able to write these newsletters in fancinote, and then write the code for sending them out, all in the same editor.

Fathom-ing levels

I spent years working at a very strange abstraction level, trying to make a system of assessment, what I saw as the lowest level primitive in an educational structure, that operated on very high level assumptions of people and behavior, divorced from the concrete reality of people learning.

In the weeks before the holidays I started brainstorming with a friend concrete things we’d actually like to help people learn. Bringing things to this level feels good. There are things ranging from personal websites, to learning about learning theory.