Ryan Somma @ideonexus

Software developer interested in synthesizing new teaching strategies for computer science using gaming. I have a book! https://t.co/1uF3MUrY9k ideonexus.com Occoquan, VA Joined February 2008

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

3 years ago

TIL the road leading into the incinerator facility near our home is named "Mordor."

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Vicky Somma #3DPrintopia2025 @TGAW

4 years ago

This was much fun! I wrote a little MVC/C# web app to send arguments to an @openscad project. It lets me easily turn my #Wordle results into STLs for #3DPrinting. Don't be too terribly surprised if I print myself a fresh Wordle pendant each morning! :)

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

4 years ago

Last week's news of Fantasy Flight's Keyforge card game going on indefinite hiatus because the deck-building algorithm is "broken" provides a teachable moment for Computer Science Education. youtube.com/watch?v=0kWitd…

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

4 years ago

Today's playtesting session of #VotesForWomen from @fortcircle games was a nail-biter, but @TGAW squeaked out a win in the final voting. The game is so enlightening for understanding the process for amending the US Constitution and the political strife surrounding the history.

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

4 years ago

As a software developer, I completely understand. I've had deployments that were supposed to take an hour take all night. This is a major software update and will be well worth the wait. @MTG_Arena

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4 years ago

As a software developer, I completely understand. I've had deployments that were supposed to take an hour take all night. This is a major software update and will be well worth the wait. @MTG_Arena

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NSFVoyager2 @NSFVoyager2

4 years ago

I am currently 17 hrs 32 mins 30 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2021:158:000000:2L)

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

4 years ago

"Making up rules and seeing what happens is basically what math is." Vihart is still my favorite Math youtuber after 10 years. youtube.com/watch?v=YPKUbf…

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

5 years ago

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Google today vs Oracle. The oral arguments made in October were fascinating for how the lawyers communicated complex concepts to non-technical judges using metaphors like restaurant menus as APIs. A teachable moment: c-span.org/video/?469263-…

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

5 years ago

Fun family project. I let my boys dictate a short RPG to me which I coded. I had to include a small JS framework to handle really large numbers as you start with a googol life. ideonexus.github.io/Explorable-Exp…

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

5 years ago

Great thread. Computers are abstractions upon abstractions upon abstractions.

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5 years ago

Great thread. Computers are abstractions upon abstractions upon abstractions.

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

5 years ago

My son just explained to me that #Fortnite won't allow first-person view because players can't see--and therefore care about--their own expensive custom skins. I'm thankful for my kids educating me in digital literacy.

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

5 years ago

From one of the decoders of the Zodiac message. Here's a high-quality entertaining video taking viewers step-by-step through decoding the secret message in the Perseverance parachute: youtube.com/watch?fbclid=I…

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

5 years ago

This was a HUGE problem for me starting out in VBscript, PHP, and Java. Having to set up a server, configure it, update environment variables, and many other arcane technical chores to output "hello world." Much more accessible to code in JavaScript, a text editor, and browser.

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5 years ago

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

5 years ago

I was worried about #MagicTheGathering IP getting watered down with the newly announced "Universes Beyond," but then I told my 9-year-old about it and he screamed, "Warhammer 40k Magic cards!?!? That's going to be amazing!!!" And now I'm cool with it. magic.wizards.com/en/articles/ar…

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

5 years ago

Three times in my career I've had young coworkers take a brief look at an existing legacy codebase and say, "I can rewrite this whole thing in [my preferred language] in just a month!" Only to give up after a week. Overly-optimistic under-scoping results in chronic overworking.

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

5 years ago

The Perseverance parachute hides a secret message in binary, "Dare mighty things." HT @doranchak youtube.com/watch?v=lsL0dB…

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

5 years ago

Modem Wars blew my mind as a teen in 1988. It was a two-player battle over 1200 baud that had different troop types and fog-of-war. Today I learned the programmer, Danielle Bunten Berry, hid this message in her code for anyone trying to crack it... (my copy was pirated). ☹️

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

5 years ago

The BBC has posted a 30th Anniversary edition of the text-based game Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Unlike the Zork series, I never beat this one. It was fun, but odd and nonsensical like the books. bbc.co.uk/programmes/art…

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

5 years ago

Learned about about the history of segregation reflected in the board game Monopoly in this Atlantic article. Can you guess which of these was the black neighborhood in Atlantic city? Politics are in our games whether or not we choose to recognize it. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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Ryan Somma @ideonexus

5 years ago

The Google Photos AI periodically makes "They Grow Up So Fast" montages of my kids with clips from their infancies to present with sappy music. The AI is clearly testing how to most effectively incapacitate me into a weeping mess for when it goes to Phase II of world domination.