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Zachary Flower

@flower.codes
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Teacher; Freelance Writer; Recovering Coder.

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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 08/06/2025
It’s my first summer as a teacher and it feels *so* weird. You mean I just… *don’t work* for 10 straight weeks? What the hell am I supposed to do with myself? #edusky
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 15/03/2025
And the trolling by my students continues 😒
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 13/02/2025
Just what I needed
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Your government might not support you. I do. #womeninscience
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 11/02/2025
This aesthetic died far too soon 😔
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 08/02/2025
Had fun speaking about creating your own budget friendly, trash-picked homelab at #jeffcon today! Super cool of my school district to put on an IT conference just for high schoolers. I would have *killed* for something like this 20 years ago. #edusky #csed
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 07/02/2025
42 hours. 200+ students. Pure creativity. At Creative Jam, teens built games, murals, music, movies—even a DIY smart treadmill & a scavenger-hunt wearable that shocks you if you're too slow to find and scan an item. Teens are *wildly* capable when given space to create. I love this job ❤️ #edusky
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 06/02/2025
I decided to teach the TCP/IP model in an… unconventional way, today. Instead of a standard computer-facing lecture, I thought I'd move the lesson outside and have the students adopt the roles of each layer themselves. It was a blast! I can't wait to do it again next year. #csed #edusky
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 04/02/2025
Dear school bus drivers who stop in the middle of the intersection to physically block traffic: thank you for keeping our kids safe
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 31/01/2025
So proud of my students, they did such a great job presenting their projects at NASA’s HRP IWS conference in Galveston this week 🚀 #csed #edusky www.cbsnews.com/colorado/vid...
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Front Range students present bio-medical designs to NASA
Front Range students are getting an out-of-this-world experience as part of NASA's "HUNCH" Program. That stands for High Schools United with Nasa Creating Hardware. Eight students from Jefferson Count...
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 22/01/2025
This just gave me some serious Window Blinds flashbacks. Remember when computers had personality?
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 20/01/2025
Humor this accurate should be illegal
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 20/01/2025
It seems like 90% of the personal cybersecurity advice I give to my students is “don’t ever, for any reason, click any link, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you’ve been… ever, for any reason whatsoever.” #edusky
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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 19/01/2025
The user data mining is coming from inside the house
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 19/01/2025
This perfectly explains why more of my people choose industry over education, despite many of them actually *wanting* to teach. The salary gap is so mind bogglingly wide, and the cost of living is so damn high, it can hardly even feel like a question. #edusky #csed
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 18/01/2025
You’ll—have—to—pry—my—em—dashes—out—of—my—cold—dead—hands.
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 15/01/2025
want
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 09/01/2025
Looks like even GitHub Classroom isn't immune to floating point arithmetic errors 🙃 #csed #edusky
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 07/01/2025
Decided to kick things off with a sorting exercise for the OSI model. I haven’t done one of these yet, so wasn’t sure how it’d go, but it was really cool to see some immediate evolution in understanding as they worked through the exercise. Definitely something I’ll do again! #edusky #csed
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 07/01/2025
And we’re back! It’s going to be an exciting semester for both me and my students. First up: the OSI model! #edusky #csed
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Michael Taylor @teacherrunner42.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I'm a tea drinker myself, but this could easily be up in the teacher's lounge of any school... #educhat #edusky #mschat
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 04/01/2025
tabs vs spaces
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 04/01/2025
Who is this Al guy everyone keeps complaining about?
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 03/01/2025
Last weekend of winter break before the Spring Semester! Are you ready #EduSky?
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 22/12/2024
And just like that, I’ve survived my first semester teaching and am now entering into the longest single stretch of time off I have had in decades. Happy holidays #edusky!
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Lauraine Langreo @laurainegl.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Thanks so much to @ericcurts.bsky.social, @cerenz.bsky.social, @jeffpaulcarpenter.bsky.social, and @flower.codes for chatting with me for this story!
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 18/12/2024
One thing I never got as a Director of Engineering? Bribes. Sweet, delicious bribes. Being a teacher is awesome. #edusky #csed
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ncnvrgnt @inconvergent.net · 17/12/2024
anything can be a graph database if you are brave enough
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 18/12/2024
Had the second of hopefully many awesome meetings with CareerWise today. Here’s hoping this is the beginning of a beautiful partnership that can help us provide even more Tier 3 work-based-learning opportunities for our students! #edusky #csed
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Hogesonline @hogesonline.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I'm so upset by this article. Quote: "According to findings ... of children’s gender stereotypes about ... STEM—the ... [kids] ... considered boys to be more capable than girls in fields [like] comp... sci... and engineering." This has to be solvable! #csed #edusky www.forbes.com/sites/josiec...
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Kids As Young As Six Think Girls Are Worse Than Boys At Computer Science
Study reveals kids as young as six believe boys excel in computer science. Explore how early gender biases shape STEM perceptions.
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 16/12/2024
So proud of my students for being one of the few teams selected present their #NASA HUNCH project at NASA's Human Research Program Investigators Workshop next month! Doubly proud of our school as a whole for representing 24% of all of the teams nationwide that will be in attendance! #CSED #EduSky
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 16/12/2024
As a dad I simultaneously want all and none of these things
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 14/12/2024
I don’t necessarily disagree with this take, but I also think there needs to be far more nuance in most conversations about AI in education, rather than painting it all with a wide brush. What’s the class? Who are the students? How do *they* absorb information? How are we assessing understanding?
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 14/12/2024
This is as much smart as any watch needs
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 12/12/2024
yes
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Brad Frost @bradfrost.com · 12/12/2024
I am "accomplishing-border-radius-with-4-gifs" years old.
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 12/12/2024
Hey @notion.com, can y'all add a blink tag so I can *really* make sure my students pay attention to some of these deadlines? I'm like 36% positive none of them are epileptic.
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 12/12/2024
I feel seen
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 12/12/2024
It’s the last week of the semester, which means a little less work, and a little more play. We’ve been playing c-jump—a ridiculous combination of Chutes and Ladders and Candyland… but for #csed. 6/10 - well below their skill levels, but still fun (if not particularly addictive) www.c-jump.com
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 10/12/2024
AI tip for students: give your favorite LLM (i.e. ChatGPT) a copy of the rubric for a given assignment, and ask for templates, suggestions, etc. to help you both *meet* and *exceed* expectations. Sometimes the hardest part is just getting started, which is something these tools are *great* at.
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 09/12/2024
It was really cool having Google come in to speak to the class about the product development lifecycle, and what it takes to go from idea to reality. Definitely an awesome way to kick off #CSEdWeek!
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 08/12/2024
Went to make cookies with my kids and we’re about half a cup short on flour. According to the Internet and my mother you can just adjust the recipe, but what am I, a chemist?
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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
4 panel meme of will smith talking expressively. " Just because I'm a programmer doesn't mean I can fix your computer", he says, continuing " I mean... I can fix it, but not because I'm a programmer"
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 08/12/2024
This is going to fundamentally change my lesson plan documents 😶
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 08/12/2024
My big project: The Death Generator. It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything. deathgenerator.com
The Mario 64 intro scene with a letter from Princess Peach, reading:
Dear Mario. Please come to the castle. I'm down bad. Yours truly-- Princess Toadstool (Peach)CATS from the video game Zero Wing (the All Your Base Are Belong To Us game), saying: "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is Futile"Dracula from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, saying to Richter "Get out of my house"The transportation advisor from SimCity 2000, saying "YOU CAN'T STAY ON TWITTER! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"
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Brad Frost @bradfrost.com · 07/12/2024
Sometimes I use `#id` CSS selectors to feel something again.
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 07/12/2024
Just discovered the #teamcompsci and #csed tags and am so excited to have found my people! I’m just finishing my first semester teaching HS computer science and cybersecurity after 15 years in industry and am so happy I made the leap.
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 07/12/2024
Anyone else confused about how Robin managed to lay an egg?
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 07/12/2024
I’ve been using Linux for over 20 years, and I still mix up adduser and useradd.
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Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 06/12/2024
My students have been having just a little too much fun with the dot matrix printer lately, and now these damn things keep popping up all over the lab. I’m not sure if I should be flattered or horrified.
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