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I am excited about a new open source project called idyll. Here is how Matthew Conlen, the lead author, describes idyllIdyll is a tool that makes it easier to author interactive narratives for the web. The goal of the project is to provide a friendly markup language — and an associated toolchain — that can be used to create dynamic, text-driven web pages. Idyll helps you create documents that use common narrative techniques such as embedding interactive charts and graphs, responding to scroll...

This past Saturday Susan, our daughter Katie and I (with help from our son Michael) taught a one day computer bootcamp for women at Cornell. Susan, who is a Cornell alum, had come up with the idea a few months earlier as she noticed how many more male than female students showed up at hackathons. Ami Stuart who organizes tech events for Cornell liked the idea and did an amazing job pulling together the actual event which wound up being sponsored by both Ziggeo (Susan’s company) and Accenture....