Ellen Spertus
@ellenspertus.bsky.social
Computer science professor at #Khoury College of Computer Science at #NortheasternUniversity, formerly Mills College #Google #AppInventor #Mozilla #Code.org #MIT #Microsoft. #CSed #feminist #SanFrancisco #Oakland
I joined fellow Jewish protesters on #YomKippur outside the offices of @schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov, urging them to support the next resolution to ban arm sales to #Israel. We went next to the Israeli consulate, to urge immediate delivery of food and medicine to #Gaza. #BreakTheFast
October 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I joined fellow Jewish protesters on #YomKippur outside the offices of @schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov, urging them to support the next resolution to ban arm sales to #Israel. We went next to the Israeli consulate, to urge immediate delivery of food and medicine to #Gaza. #BreakTheFast
@martinfowler.com If you have time to weigh in on this, it would be great to get your opinion. softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/45...
Is there a reason "replace conditional with table" isn't a standard refactoring?
I'm preparing a lecture where I will start with a many-branched conditional statement and replace it with a table. For example, I could start with:
function getMonthName(monthNumber) {
if (monthN...
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July 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
@martinfowler.com If you have time to weigh in on this, it would be great to get your opinion. softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/45...
Any recommendations of resources for students to learn the basics of the Un*x command line?
@shriram.bsky.social #csed
@shriram.bsky.social #csed
July 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Any recommendations of resources for students to learn the basics of the Un*x command line?
@shriram.bsky.social #csed
@shriram.bsky.social #csed
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AI for "good", indeed. Glad a journalist picked up on this story and interviewed Abeba. Streisand Effect these asses.
July 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
AI for "good", indeed. Glad a journalist picked up on this story and interviewed Abeba. Streisand Effect these asses.
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Howard Zinn is a historian and author of multiple books including "A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present". Look back through the pages of history. You will find darkness but also light. Let it give you hope.
Goodnight 💚
Goodnight 💚
July 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Howard Zinn is a historian and author of multiple books including "A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present". Look back through the pages of history. You will find darkness but also light. Let it give you hope.
Goodnight 💚
Goodnight 💚
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Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine
April 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine
Story by @kron4-news.bsky.social about recent @harveymilkclub.bsky.social rally to free Andry Hernandez Romero from CECOT. www.kron4.com/news/bay-are... #AndryRomero
After the rally, I visited the nearby Pink Triangle memorial.
After the rally, I visited the nearby Pink Triangle memorial.
SF activists demand release of gay man jailed in El Salvador: ‘He is not a member of a gang’
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Several members of the group Gays without Borders protested in San Francisco on Saturday. They’re demanding the release of a Venezuelan man seeking U.S. asylum wh…
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April 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Story by @kron4-news.bsky.social about recent @harveymilkclub.bsky.social rally to free Andry Hernandez Romero from CECOT. www.kron4.com/news/bay-are... #AndryRomero
After the rally, I visited the nearby Pink Triangle memorial.
After the rally, I visited the nearby Pink Triangle memorial.
@actioninhighered.bsky.social is there a more accessible way to find events near me than the interactive map on your website?
April 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
@actioninhighered.bsky.social is there a more accessible way to find events near me than the interactive map on your website?
Applications close soon for Code In Place @codeinplace.bsky.social, an online intro programming MOOC with human section leaders that was created in the early days of the pandemic. I plan to be a section leader for the 3rd time. Applications are also open for learners. #CSEd codeinplace.stanford.edu
Code In Place
A free, human-centered, intro-to-coding course from Stanford University
codeinplace.stanford.edu
April 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Applications close soon for Code In Place @codeinplace.bsky.social, an online intro programming MOOC with human section leaders that was created in the early days of the pandemic. I plan to be a section leader for the 3rd time. Applications are also open for learners. #CSEd codeinplace.stanford.edu
Colleague: Last dev survey said an astonishing 70% preferred TypeScript over JS.
Me: 80% of developers prefer being poked in the eye over JS.
Me: 80% of developers prefer being poked in the eye over JS.
March 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Colleague: Last dev survey said an astonishing 70% preferred TypeScript over JS.
Me: 80% of developers prefer being poked in the eye over JS.
Me: 80% of developers prefer being poked in the eye over JS.
Join me and other Jewish academics in "denouncing, without equivocation, anyone who invokes our name – and cynical claims of antisemitism – to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities." docs.google.com/document/u/0...
Not In Our Name
Sign the Statement March 11, 2025 Not in our name. We are Jewish professors, staff members, and students from universities across the United States. We hold various views about Israel and Palestine...
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March 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Join me and other Jewish academics in "denouncing, without equivocation, anyone who invokes our name – and cynical claims of antisemitism – to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities." docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window
February 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window
I need to repackage a third-party Java library and found out the utility for doing so is named Jar Jar Links. github.com/shevek/jarjar
GitHub - shevek/jarjar: Jar Jar Links is a utility that makes it easy to repackage Java libraries and embed them into your own distribution.
Jar Jar Links is a utility that makes it easy to repackage Java libraries and embed them into your own distribution. - shevek/jarjar
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December 17, 2024 at 6:45 PM
I need to repackage a third-party Java library and found out the utility for doing so is named Jar Jar Links. github.com/shevek/jarjar
December 11, 2024 at 4:17 AM
My least favorite part of teaching is when the students I've grown to care about are replaced by strangers.
December 9, 2024 at 7:44 PM
My least favorite part of teaching is when the students I've grown to care about are replaced by strangers.
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BREAKING: In a surprising turn of events, businesses that said their Cyber Monday sale was limited have extended the sale
December 3, 2024 at 2:06 PM
BREAKING: In a surprising turn of events, businesses that said their Cyber Monday sale was limited have extended the sale
It blows my mind that when I tell my students about something I remember from the '70s and '80s (like the creation of exceptions and the rise of object-oriented programming), it's as though one of my professors told me about the '30s and '40s. #CSEd
November 29, 2024 at 11:22 PM
It blows my mind that when I tell my students about something I remember from the '70s and '80s (like the creation of exceptions and the rise of object-oriented programming), it's as though one of my professors told me about the '30s and '40s. #CSEd
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We accidentally ended up with a clinical trial in the music scene here.
November 22, 2024 at 12:21 PM
We accidentally ended up with a clinical trial in the music scene here.
Why is there a road sign for snakes watching a large-screen TV?
November 24, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Why is there a road sign for snakes watching a large-screen TV?
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Jesus was at Walgreen’s again.
November 23, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Jesus was at Walgreen’s again.
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Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com
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November 23, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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I used to love going to the salad bar but then they put up a sneeze guard and turned it into an echo chamber
November 23, 2024 at 10:08 PM
I used to love going to the salad bar but then they put up a sneeze guard and turned it into an echo chamber
What are some great CS undergrad programs for intellectually curious students that are not extremely difficult to get into as an undergrad or transfer student? #CSEd
November 24, 2024 at 4:25 AM
What are some great CS undergrad programs for intellectually curious students that are not extremely difficult to get into as an undergrad or transfer student? #CSEd