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When we run Code for Boston the majority of our new members find our group on Meetup and do not have a great understanding of who we are or are. In order to help people understand what we do we run an orientation session for all the new members. It helps them understand our organization and how we work. We spend most of this orientation explaining what we do, but we also spend a good part of it explaining what we do not do.

I thought that Mark Headd had an interesting tweet yesterday:

Interesting to see Apple’s deep focus on updating maps:

It’s doing this by using first-party data gathered by iPhones with a privacy-first methodology and its own fleet of cars packed with sensors and cameras. The new product will launch in San Francisco and the Bay Area with the next iOS 12 beta and will cover Northern California by fall.

One of the tricks I have recently learned for Slack, the chat program, is that they have a star system for messages. The star is a feature I have seen but I did not understand how to use it that well. After reading a page in the Slack documentation I learned stars are a todo list. It is not to be thought of as a bookmark but as a way to keep track of posts that you have to take action on. Suddenly the stream of overwhelming stuff is tamable.

After spending a week trying to increase the amount of sleep I get I have been unable to push myself to be in my bed for than seven and a half hours. However the difference between under and over seven hours feels like the world. Yesterday waking up with nearly six and a half hours was a bit of a struggle for the day. This morning I woke up with seven hours and twenty minutes and I feel great. I am not sure if I will ever successfully push eight hours, but today writing this blog post was easy, while yesterday I missed it.