| Time |
S |
Nick |
Message |
| 16:45 |
|
pdurbin |
aditsu: do you still want to hear about the side project? |
| 16:46 |
|
aditsu |
sure |
| 17:13 |
|
pdurbin |
So, for context, I have a 13 year old who is an 8th grader at a school that does some fundraising, like many or most schools, I suppose. |
| 17:13 |
|
pdurbin |
The tagline for the app we parents built is "Matching student volunteers to neighborhood donors." |
| 17:14 |
|
pdurbin |
The students shovel snow, walk dogs, etc. |
| 17:15 |
|
pdurbin |
People in the neighborhood donate $10 per hour. |
| 17:17 |
|
aditsu |
aha |
| 17:18 |
|
pdurbin |
Do you like the idea? Does it make sense? Do you think other schools might like something like this? |
| 17:22 |
|
aditsu |
I don't know much about that... I'm not a parent, and I'm not sure it's a good idea to use some form of child labor to fund schools |
| 17:23 |
|
aditsu |
schools should be funded by the government, but I guess yours is currently a dumpster fire :p |
| 17:25 |
|
pdurbin |
No, our school functions pretty well. And these kids just sit around staring at their phones. They can shovel a little snow. The donations go toward class trips like seeing a baseball game in the spring. |
| 17:27 |
|
aditsu |
oh, ok, that sounds better, assuming they're interested in baseball or whatever they plan to do |
| 17:29 |
|
pdurbin |
The kids voted on what trips they'd like. They're also interested in a dinner cruise in the harbor. |
| 17:31 |
|
aditsu |
it's probably a good idea, I find it difficult to asses since I'm living in a totally different kind of environment |
| 17:32 |
|
aditsu |
assess* |
| 17:36 |
|
pdurbin |
Sure, but now I know to emphasize that the fundraising is for extras like baseball games, not crumbling public infrastructure or whatever else you're imagining. :) |
| 17:39 |
|
aditsu |
I heard that some schools are underfunded in the US, teachers don't earn much, and in some poor districts students can't afford school supplies |
| 17:39 |
|
aditsu |
and your current education secretary is a billionaire whose life mission is to destroy public schools |
| 17:40 |
|
pdurbin |
T-T |
| 17:44 |
|
aditsu |
plus they're starting to train schoolkids how to react in a mass shooting situation, it's insane |
| 17:59 |
|
pdurbin |
Yeah. Would you like to hear about some of the technology choices for the app? |
| 18:00 |
|
aditsu |
sure, is it web? mobile? both? |
| 18:02 |
|
pdurbin |
Web. It looks decent enough on mobile. |
| 18:04 |
|
pdurbin |
The backend is all AWS. API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB. The frontend is GitHub Pages. Jekyll, Bootstrap, jQuery. |
| 18:14 |
|
aditsu |
never used AWS |
| 18:15 |
|
aditsu |
so what is it written in? |
| 18:22 |
|
aditsu |
btw, I was struggling recently with an ajax autocomplete component with hidden id field; wicket has one that does the job, but it's overly complicated and stateful |
| 18:22 |
|
aditsu |
I ended up hacking jquery-ui's autocomplete and building my own simple and stateless component |
| 18:24 |
|
aditsu |
took a lot of work, but it's pretty good now :) |
| 18:51 |
|
pdurbin |
Python. The AWS Lambda functions are written in Python. |
| 18:53 |
|
pdurbin |
I've never used jquery-ui. Cool that you were able to create your own component. |
