Two papersIn the past couple of weeks, I’ve published two papers. I just wanted to plug them briefly here: “From Weberian Rationalization […]

GrindEvery summer, I set myself a deadline: I have to finish and submit a paper before school resumes in the fall. This push in the […]

This is now a Chicago Manual of Style stan blogThe Chicago Manual of Style never ceases to delight me. Besides being an exceptional style guide by any standard, the deep love of […]

Further into tildegitA couple of years ago, I posted about how I was mirroring some GitHub repositories on tildegit. Since then, GitHub has continued […]

Web accessibility: a self-auditing approachWhile my previous post was about how LLMs can supplement web accessibility work, they certainly do not match a thorough, human […]

Web accessibility: a supplementary approachYou may have heard about the requirement in the U.S. for most state and local governments’ web content to be WCAG 2.1 AA compliant […]

Getting started with AiderLast night, I got Aider properly set up on my laptop, both in the terminal and in neovim. It is remarkable. I honestly see how […]

Curious about AiderSomeone I rather respect (both as a programmer and as a librarian) recently described the period of time after he got properly set […]

Against IMRaD In my opinion, the scholarly literature of librarianship has an IMRaD problem. IMRaD is an acronym that stands for “Introduction, […]

🚨 Call for editors 🚨Apply by September 15th, 2025 Humanities Methods in Librarianship – a new, no-fee, open access journal – is looking for edi […]

New journal: Humanities Methods in LibrarianshipMy collaborators and I are very happy to announce this project, which has been brewing for a few months now. We’re launching a […]

Return to XPS 13In a previous post, I talked about reviving an old Dell XPS 13 9360 that I had accidentally smashed several years ago. I am glad I […]

DNS, part 2Earlier this week, I wanted to set up a root domain to point at a subdomain. The obvious reason for this is that I wanted a page […]

BlogrollInspired by @fsvo, I’ve added a “Blogroll” tab to the top of these blog pages. Blogrolls were a popular late 1990s/early 2000s way […]

Hardware necromancyI had an old, broken Dell XPS 13 9360 sitting around for quite some time. It was a computer that I really liked, but I dropped it […]

On my occasional disavowals of codingEvery once in a while, I write a post talking about how I’m going to (more or less) walk away from coding. But nonetheless, the […]

OJS, part 2In a previous post, I described my recent install of PKP’s OJS. This week, I followed up by doing a run-through of a sample […]

Code4Lib Journal issue 60I just wanted to point out that Code4Lib Journal, issue 60 is now published! Quality Control Automation for Student Driven […]