This Old Dog Is Still Learning Old Tricks

I’ve been working with UNIX/Linux for 30–40 years. You’d think by now I’d have seen every trap. Turns out — some of the oldest ones are still the sharpest. The Setup I’ve got a simple media pipeline: Except… the disk wasn’t mounted when I first built it. Linux didn’t complain.It just quietly wrote everything to … Read more

Teaching How to Finish an Exam

Teaching How to Finish an Exam Finishing an exam is a skill.Not intelligence. Not knowledge. A skill. And like any skill, it needs to be trained deliberately. Most students don’t run out of ability.They run out of time. The Hidden Problem Exams are rarely designed to be comfortably completed. They’re built to: That means perfection … Read more