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Pkl Rick: A Configuration Language Intro for People Who Get the Reference

"I turned myself into a pickle, Morty. Boom! Big reveal: I've been a Pkl file this whole time." — Rick Sanchez, probably

What Even Is Pkl?

If you've spent any meaningful time as an SRE, you've lived the YAML nightmare. Deeply nested CloudFormation templates. Copy-pasted Kubernetes manifests with one field changed. A values.yaml that's 400 lines long and nobody knows which parts are actually used. Config that's technically "just data" but somehow requires a PhD to reason about at scale.

GI Bill Comparison Tool Rewrite

The GI Bill Comparison Tool is a web application that allows veterans to find schools, estimate their GI Bill benefits, and to decide whether it is worthwhile to complete the paperwork to obtain benefits based on their situation, goals, and school choices.

DSVA desired to rewrite this older application so that it would comport with the newer JavaScript- and API-based Vets.gov architecture and tooling.

GIBCT Data Service (Another Rails App)

The purpose of this tool for internal VA stakeholders was to regularly produce a valid GIBCT database from 21 separate data sources, including College Scorecard and human-made spreadsheets. It was kept but was updated and enhanced primarily by Marc Harbatkin.

Molinolo Named to All-USA Academic First Team

As an All-USA College Academic Team member, Gabriela Molinolo ’05 has received national recognition in USA Today and a $2,500 cash reward. She was among just 60 two-year college students recognized for their academic excellence.

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT Spring 2005

by Diane Bosser and Elizabeth Homan

To those in the Montgomery College community who know Gabriela Molinolo, it wasn’t surprising that the 24-year-old honors student has been recognized for her academic excellence by being named to the First Team of the 2005 All-USA Community and Junior College Academic Team. Only 20 students a year receive this honor, which includes a cash award of $2,500.

Molinolo’s achievement was announced in Boston, Mass., at the April convention of the American Association of Community Colleges. Sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges, USA Today, and the American Association of Community Colleges, the annual award recog- nizes a

Interest form: Director of the California Office of Digital Innovation

California seeks a visionary and dynamic leader to establish our Office of Digital Innovation (ODI). The Office will seek to make government more accessible and intuitive for the people it serves.

ODI will build on what we have learned about digital innovation in California, and bring it to scale. The Office will always start by seeking to understand what users want. It will use design, technology, data, and behavioral insights to iteratively work with departments to deliver better services for Californians. It will also bring its tools to bear on troubled projects to refocus efforts through discovery and rapid prototyping.

The Director of ODI will build a world-class team, create the culture, build the institution, and deliver real results. The Director will also become the de facto community leader and convener of innovators across the state. This is a tremendous opportunity to build a movement, and develop capabilities

	Do it in spite of it, do it by hand
	Делай вопреки, делай от руки

	Turn the world upside down, turn over the sky
	Мир переверни, небо опрокинь

	In every sketch, in every draft
	В каждом наброске, в каждом черновике

	The teacher continues in his student

	/**
	* AI Prompts
	*
	* Contains prompt templates and utilities for formatting prompts
	* for different AI tasks and scenarios.
	*/

	import { Message } from './types.js';

	// Define MessageRole consts since we're using the type as values

	#!/bin/sh

	diskName=${1:-'RamDisk'}
	gigsRequested=${2:-4}
	bytes=$(expr 2097152 \* $gigsRequested)
	echo "Starting to make $gigsRequested GB ramdisk named $diskName..."

	if diskutil erasevolume HFS+ $diskName $(hdiutil attach -nomount ram://$bytes); then
	open "/Volumes/${diskName}"
	echo "Success!"

	function footnoteInliner() {
	var body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();

	var searchResult = null;
	var count = 0;

	while (searchResult = body.findElement(DocumentApp.ElementType.FOOTNOTE, searchResult)) {
	count++;

	var el = searchResult.getElement();

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