Felienne Hermans

After almost a decade and a half on this WordPress site (my first post dates from 2011!)

In this thorough piece, The American Prospect explains that while some people might hope that universities will save democracy, but that that might be tricky since they themselves are not at all democratic.

We had a teenager over for New Year’s Eve, and one of his biggest hobby is to explain to me and my husband (“boomers” as he calls us even though we are millenials) what terminally online kids do these days; which words and memes and emoji are still in use.

Next week I will visit SPLASH to present a paper titles “A case for feminism in programming language design”, co-authored with Ari Schlesinger.

Part 1: Lane Assist We recently bought a car, a fancy new car with fancy options like lane assist: a feature that keeps the car in its lane by moving the steering wheel for you.

In a previous post I have tried to describe the reasons I see being used to use LLMs in CS education: 1) professionals use them, 2) LLMs can replace parts of teaching and 3) students will use them anyway so we as teachers have to somehow deal with that.

This Friday I will be in a panel at the SEN symposium (which I was participating in 2 years ago too, talking about autograders) The organizers told me that the “discussion will revolve around opportunities, challenges, and potential solutions” and I was a…

I see this argument “why stop students if we can’t check it anyway” so much, so let’s dive in a bit!

When I was still hanging out on Twitter every single day, the beauty of that era was that one could learn all sorts of things about all sorts of things.

After an American media frenzy of a few weeks, the new president of Harvard has resigned after the shortest term ever, only 6 months.