As the first of the (hopefully) monthly posts, let’s talk about one of the earliest “discoveries” I made when I first made bell: the school bell is not actually on time (usually). Most of the time, the school bell is only a couple of seconds off of the correct time, so not many people noticed until I made the bell website. (It has been much farther off from correct before.) Read more

Welcome to the new bell developer blog! When bell first came out as bell.lahs.club, we used to have a small blog where we made a few posts about the development process. Since then, the primary bell developers have graduated from Los Altos High School and have passed along the responsibility of managing the LAHS schedules to the LAHS Hack Club, so it makes sense to have a separate blog just about the development process while the Hack Club makes announcements specific to LAHS on their Instagram account. Read more

What a weird experience. Last semester, I was fed up with remembering the schedule so I made a timer. Then lots of people started using my timer. And before I knew it, the news of my fancy timer had spread like wildfire across the school, generating hundreds of hits per day from teachers and students alike. I’d like to know what you all thought about using my timer, so I made a short survey. Read more

Nicolas approached me a couple days ago and told me he would be starting a blog for bell.lahs.club, which is especially interesting given that we’ll be graduating in less than two weeks. I’m told the domain is being passed on though, so I guess this is for posterity. I guess an introduction is in order. I’m Jonathan Shi, graduating senior, headed to Berkeley in EECS next year. I wrote the Chrome extension for bell (which is the reason Nick said I could write a post, downloadable here), and I’m one of Nick’s roommates next year. Read more