Taylor Reece

Last post, I talked about my legacy app's old, outdated tech stack. Now, let's look at the new stack I hope to use as I rewrite BubbleCheck.

In 2013 I built BubbleCheck, an automated grading tool that lets teachers design multiple choice exams, scan in their students' completed exams, and review the results.

Now, over a decade later, 308 teachers have used BubbleCheck to automatically grade a whopping of 48,000 exams. Assuming each exam would have taken, say, 5 minutes to grade by hand, it's saved teachers a collective 4000 hours of grading.

At this point, I an confidently say that the project was worth it. Relevant XKCD.

But, technology changes and BubbleCheck is built on a tech stack that is considered "ancient" at this point.

So, it's time to rebuild BubbleCheck with modern tools.

SOARE. noun. A young hawk. If you're here for the "best" first word to use in Wordle, there it is.

What is Wordle?​

Wordle is the word game craze that gained extreme popularity in January of 2021.

I wanted to add some Material Design Icons to a Docusaurus documentation page that I'm working on, but couldn't find a good tutorial on how to do exactly that. I'm relatively new to the React.js world, so I had to futz for a bit, but eventually got it figured out.

Background​

Many (most?) recipes for scones involve milk, butter, or both. That's pretty unfortunate for folks with dairy allergies.