On credibilityThe call for papers for Code4Lib Journal’s special issue on static websites ended very recently and the results have been exceptional. The guest editors for the special issue have clearly done a good job conceptualizing and

New themeThe pending WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility compliance deadlines for public colleges, at both the federal level (now postponed) and New York state level (not postponed yet, as far as I know), have me looking at our department’s

LLMs and librarianship in one's second languageMy last post led to a thread on Mastodon about the merits of LLM-assisted writing in one’s second language. There were some […]

Seeing like my students: writing in a second languageCe billet de blogue constitue une tentative de rédaction dans ma langue adoptée. Il procède d’un désir de mieux comprendre mes étu […]

In praise of "Practical Web Accessibility"This post is quite simply a big thank you to Ashley Firth, who has written a wonderful book called Practical Web Accessibility: A […]

Blogging as an embarrassingly rough draftIf you’ve followed this blog for a while, I am honestly quite confused. This blog is not particularly insightful or well thought […]

Code4Lib 2026I’m currently on my way to Philadelphia to attend the last day of the Code4Lib 2026 conference. While I would have loved to attend […]

CfPThe first Call for Papers for Humanities Methods in Librarianship went out on Friday. For those of us who have been working on […]

Projectification, vibes and the libraryOne thing that programmers are very comfortable with is a project. We tend to instinctively break things down into project-sized […]

YeggeI had a couple of hours to kill recently so I installed Steve Yegge’s Beads. I am hoping this solves a problem for me, which is […]

Managerialism and the humanities in library scholarhsipWorking on the Humanities Methods in Librarianship editorial recently has me wondering (in more detail than usual) why our […]

Humanities Methods in Librarianship: Issue 0 editorialToday, Humanities Methods in Librarianship published its Issue 0 editorial. The editorial is our initial best attempt at a […]

NotificationsMy journey running scheduled jobs using systemd has been going fine. But one challenge I am facing is that because systemd does […]

Vibe, part 2So now that I have a subscription to Claude Code and have poked at it a bit, I felt it was time for a fully vibe-coded project. […]

SandboxingIn my last post, I talked about how I only trust Claude Code about as far as I can throw it. Beyond what I linked in my previous […]

Claude codeI’m looking forward to this semester’s vibe coding workshop for librarians. I was notified that I was accepted into the program […]

SystemdIn a previous post, I talked about using systemd to schedule jobs, specifically, in my case, running a Teams bot and a dependency […]

VibeI have applied to what I’ve been calling the “vibe coding workshop,” which is more officially known as the Agentic AI […]

RenovateI’ve posted previously about how I want to move away from GitHub and toward Gitea and the tildeverse. But GitHub, in its […]

Thanksgiving challenge: articles editionIn past years, I’ve done what I’ve called the Thanksgiving challenge, where I just hole up by myself at home and code for the […]