*holey moley* you nailed this 100%. It's universal paperclips / cookie clicker. I praise all the saints that as an educator at a backwoods educational institution (sorry Cal Poly) I managed to dodge this particular bullet.
I think this (stopping using GitHub) is an excellent idea... but how hard is it to build a system that allows only humans to post? I claim that the whole web-of-trust thing was dismissed by most people 20 years ago as being tinfoil-hat, is it time for it to come back?
The Scott Shambaugh thing has me totally freaked out. Here's a short blog post that I wrote in response: www.brinckerhoff.org/blog/2026/02...
Thanks DuckDuckGo, I enjoyed reading this blog post on what the heck is Gas Town? www.todayintabs.com/p/all-gas-to... .
I'm so so impressed by the work that went into the Pyret error messages. It's not just that the language is designed to prevent this common source of beginner programming errors, but it goes above and beyond to suggest a solution. (Ob2026Aside: and this predates LLM-land)
Doing an eleventh-hour pivot to DCIC for my 10-week course for nonmajors that starts tomorrow. Can't wait! (Among other things, I am *so so happy* that I will not be spending tomorrow bouncing between 30 students struggling to install VS Code, get python working, clone a repo in github classroom...)
