Hi! I'm Snow and I'm currently studying for a degree in computer science. I made this blog to keep myself motivated while I try to get through college. I'm not always great with academics but I'm trying to get better!
🌠 My blog 🌠
I usually post weekly about what I did during the week in order to show my progress and keep myself productive. I might also post some informational posts once I'm more confident in my compsci knowledge.
🌠 Navigation 🌠
- #snowystudyblr - my original posts (starting fall 2024)
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⚙️ Open Source code:
https://github.com/CarlaCGDM/sentence-stepper
[ID. Two gifs of the accessibility tool in action. They highlight one sentence at a time for ease of readability.
The first gif shows the tool cycling down the paragraphs, from sentence to sentence, in a thick yellow highlight.
The second gif shows the different highlight styles such as; a thick yellow, a thinner yellow, no highlight at all, a gradient highlight, blocky tri-color highlight by line, and colored text by line. End ID.]
(Thank you @wistoreal for the ID.)
See progress on y'alls requests and suggestions below:
🔜 PDF support: PDFs are not websites and the browser's PDF reader blocks access to addons by design, but I am still working to include it. I am coding my own built-in PDF viewer for this!
🔜 Customization: In the next update you will be able to choose custom colors to replace the default yellow, pink and blue as well as custom keyboard shortcuts to step back and forth.
🔜 Mobile support: I am targeting Firefox mobile and doing further research on other mobile browsers for future updates. Unfortunately it seems Chrome doesn't support add-ons on mobile.
🔜 Other browsers: I am targeting Safari, Edge and Opera in future updates. DuckDuckGo and IronFox have also been requested and noted!
🔜 Tumblr & other socials: I will add support for infinite scrolling and click-to-highlight in future updates. I am studying the viability of expanding sentence detection to work with all-lowercase paragraphs without hurting the overall detection accuracy.
🔜 Google Docs: It's a little tricky to get addons to work well on gdocs but I hope to have it working by the next update!
🔜 Older versions of Chrome and Firefox: Please send me a report including your browser version and issue and I will do what I can to help.
🚫 Propietary textbook sites: Very likely impossible for the addon to access the copyright-protected, scrapping-protected iframe text. If anyone has insight it is greatly appreciated. Let's keep fighting for a fully open internet.
🐝 Known bugs:
Wikipedia source links sometimes interfere with sentence detection. You can expect this fixed by the next update.
A minority of fics in AO3 force you to step through the UI buttons and work tags before reaching the main body of text. I am investigating.
Text in image carousels is dimmed but not picked up for stepping. I'm studying if I should not dim it or try to get it picked up.
The addon conflicts with BeelineReader, which makes sense since they manipulate the same page elements. It's one or the other at a time, I'm afraid!
Need help staying focused? My pomodoro tracker printable helps you tackle tasks in short, focused bursts -- perfect for keeping track of study sessions or work projects.
-> available in red, green, AND in black and white for those that have limited printing capabilities
-> perfect for letter-sized printing with 2 per page for maximum convenience.
-> grab yours now in both PNG and PDF formats on my google drive!
-> new to the pomodoro method? check out these posts:
the pomodoro technique on todoist
the pomodoro technique: mastering productivity one tomato at a time by @pinkishpink
my latest "getting housework done" adhd hack by @jabbage
ideas for 5-minute study breaks at the library by @audiocultures
-> remember: there's no hard rules on how to do pomodoro. if 25:5:30 doesn't work for you, change it up! it's not cheating. its personalizing! personally i do 10:5:20 :)
(if this looks familiar, i think i accidentally deleted the original post T_T)
To anyone who relies on dopamine to get their stuff done (hello ADHDers), this is such a great way to get it!!! I had tracker sheets for my exam questions last year and I ended up doing somewhere between 150-200 exam papers last year. And I ENJOYED it!!! Because getting to colour in each square trained my brain to be excited and to get a big pump of dopamine at the end
My tips (as an undiagnosed autistic highschool student) on how to genuinely get stuff done and not procrastinate:
Before I begin I would like to say that these are what works for me, and they really only work about 20-50% of the time. I do not have good executive functioning and I cannot claim that these work very well or at all.
Break up your time into shorter sections and don't work on one thing for too long. For example if you have to write notes and work on slides and you have 4 hours until it's due, do the notes for 1 hour and the slides for 1 hour, and then switch between them afterwards to finish.
Take breaks every half an hour or so to rest, and make sure you eat food or drink water during these
Section up your tasks into small parts and try to prioritise what is most important to get done (like, if an essay is worth 40% and due Thursday, don't do your maths homework for Tuesday, do the essay first and then do the homework)
Do something simple but "productive" first like put something away in a drawer to get the energy and motivation to do harder stuff
Set deadlines for small parts of your task even if they aren't accurate to when the task is due (leave space for error or complications)
Get someone else to do productive stuff around you or just watch you (body doubling--this is literally magic for me)
Ask for help. If you are looking at a pile of clothes to put away and it's too overwhelming, get someone else to help sort them whilst you put them away, etc.
Music or YouTube videos in the background for physical tasks are good for dopamine and enjoying the task more
Make a time lapse video of yourself doing the thing so that you don't scroll on your phone (and also this is rewarding because you get to watch yourself running around a room afterwards and that's kind of cool)
I don't know if this will actually reach people or will help anyone, but if it does I'm really glad and if I can just help one person do their maths homework or put on a load of laundry that will be enough for me.
I can't believe I'm over a quarter of the way through the semester already. It feels like it's going too slow and too fast at the same time. The mid-semester burnout is already starting to get to me. Hopefully I'll be able to recover from it soon.
This week was stressful, to say the least. I had 3 major assignments due within 2 days of each other. At least I'm done with them now. I also downloaded some new themes for vscode, which was fun.
I survived week 2! I'm starting to get into the flow of classwork, although I'm still not as organized as I'd like to be. It feels like there's never enough time, but that's nothing new. I'm starting to become more comfortable here.
I survived my first week of school! It was pretty chaotic. I'm starting to get used to my new classes and living situation. I'm still adjusting to actually having to study again, hopefully I'll be more motivated as I start getting back into everything.
This week
- started attending classes
- adjusted my class schedule
- finished introduction & first journal for writing class
- downloaded software for databases class
- did reading for literature class
- finished readings and quiz for international relations
So a long time ago I made a poll to help me make a Begginers guide to GIT because a lot of people seem to have trouble with it.
https://www.tumblr.com/moose-mousse/722172571753365504/going-to-make-a-getting-started-with-git-post?source=share
And I know for a fact that my University taught it horribly. (Or rather... did not teach it at all)
I REALLY tried making this guide as short as I possibly could. Explaining only what you need to know, while trying to clarify what most people find confusing. But it still is too long for a single post. So, I have split it into 5. The post each links to each other, so you should be able to go back and forth easily.
This guide is going to be pure GIT done via the command line.
2 reasons for this:
1: GIT GUI’s are really handy, but they abstracts away a lot of the newbie help GIT is trying to give you. Bitbucket, Github, Jira, and other services use GIT but usually add extra bits that are specific to them. So to know how they are different, it is smartest to learn pure GIT first. And since they are 99% GIT, you will be able to use them with no/little trouble.
2: Because I use the command line, it is easy to build your own automation tools. Simply have a program write git commands to the shell and/or read outputs from git commands and use them to visualize whatever you want, however you want.
That way you can have whatever shiney graphics your heart can code up. All the tools you can find (Like Github desktop or gitk) are simply doing this. (incidentally, if any of you make a pretty visualization of GIT? Show me! I wanna see a dog themed GIT graph! I wanna see pink log outputs! Make it yours!)
Table of content:
Part 1: What is GIT? Why should I care?
Table of content:
Part 1: What is GIT? Why should I care? <-------- You are here
Part 2: Definitions of terms and concepts
Part 3: How to
Part 2: Definitions of terms and concepts
Table of content:
Part 1: What is GIT? Why should I care?
Part 2: Definitions of terms and concepts. <-------- You are here
Part 3: How to
Part 3: How to learn GIT after (or instead of ) this guide.
Table of content:
Part 1: What is GIT? Why should I care?
Part 2: Definitions of terms and concepts.
Part 3: How to learn GIT after (or in
Part 4: How to use GIT as 1 person
Table of content:
Part 1: What is GIT? Why should I care?
Part 2: Definitions of terms and concepts.
Part 3: How to learn GIT after (or in
Part 5: How to use GIT as a group.
Table of content:
Table of content:
Part 1: What is GIT? Why should I care?
Part 2: Definitions of terms and concepts.
Part 3: How to lea
second year day 1 :3 Classes were chill today, not much happened. Spent an hour in the library reading some python concepts, and I came across something funny.
Duck typing is a concept in dynamic programming where the type of an object iss determined by its behaviour rather than its class definition. In other words, it's based on the idea that "if it walls like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck."
new follower here, btw love your blog amazing! ALSO! can you please make green or pastel green shade or dark green dividers for my other blog like stars moon anything you like ! if not i understand! take care have a great day!!
ahh hi, thank you so much!! 💖 I put together some of my fave celestial dividers and recolored them in shades of green for you - hope you like these!! 💚⭐️
Hi everyone! I know I've been gone for awhile, but I'm back now. I had some mental health issues that I'm slowly learning to deal with and improve. I've decided to start updating this blog again because I enjoy posting here and it helps keep me motivated. Time for a new semester!
Sorry for neglecting this blog again! I had another couple of weeks that weren't as productive as I wanted them to be. But I did get to do some fun stuff for Halloween.
