CUNY Academic Commons | Mark Eaton | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/markeaton/activity/ Activity feed for Mark Eaton. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 c60d34cf840f62393a1aba4aaec4a202 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=5409 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:48:35 -0400 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

]]> 1fd9fe559cfe1541479c3ce32ea7bb98 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=5369 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:04:26 -0400 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

]]> c0df971cc5078875cac32c30b346193d Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=5251 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:21:36 -0400 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 […]

]]> 2721c1e0cab38942145a411f8dfc1505 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=5241 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:41:42 -0400 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 […]

]]> 488b5024d016042c804e65c02c3f1980 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=5215 Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:26:38 -0400 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 […]

]]> a6a1363ce74a6ef80ceaf8d559c360ab Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=5179 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:33:31 -0500 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 […]

]]> 246e0992f16c4becd2edf26613ee225d Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=5135 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:55:20 -0500 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 […]

]]> 26e12c08bf35f02dc913d7258a6d9327 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=5017 Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:48:17 -0500 CfPThe first Call for Papers for Humanities Methods in Librarianship went out on Friday. For those of us who have been working on […]

]]> f0625067cf226735b8430988358053a6 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4927 Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:53:35 -0500 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 […]

]]> 22f93d8b45019921aeab6643bc61d6d2 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4883 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:58:13 -0500 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 […]

]]> bf57a68985d0f59626558f0e8e451a53 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4733 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:28:07 -0500 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 […]

]]> 7048d062af57561620b43d3ff1088c69 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4701 Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:43:13 -0500 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 […]

]]> af944c5d1e935d8c84aa44a0145fb8b9 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4653 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:21:13 -0500 NotificationsMy journey running scheduled jobs using systemd has been going fine. But one challenge I am facing is that because systemd does […]

]]> 23038d8077c2102b4f57c00c7f7992b3 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4605 Sat, 24 Jan 2026 05:17:56 -0500 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. […]

]]> 78ce7e0379348baa40eaf74aa81a7485 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4549 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:53:59 -0500 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 […]

]]> dc233922a2e8948ef42aa11bc113d88f Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4515 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:10:38 -0500 Claude codeI’m looking forward to this semester’s vibe coding workshop for librarians. I was notified that I was accepted into the program […]

]]> 81210c540f2301fadc18557ee07d5bbf Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4483 Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:56:49 -0500 SystemdIn a previous post, I talked about using systemd to schedule jobs, specifically, in my case, running a Teams bot and a dependency […]

]]> 470ae3b528e52da7039b26a4fbc4e11b Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4459 Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:39:23 -0500 VibeI have applied to what I’ve been calling the “vibe coding workshop,” which is more officially known as the Agentic AI […]

]]> ac75176cd303087fc1eb3f4b649050db Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4421 Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:10:32 -0500 RenovateI’ve posted previously about how I want to move away from GitHub and toward Gitea and the tildeverse. But GitHub, in its […]

]]> eac9b1f3c59c00a809fee4321844eaa9 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4389 Sun, 30 Nov 2025 20:55:08 -0500 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 […]

]]> acd4a30bc605827d02a8f8cde45fe464 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4341 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:34:40 -0500 Teams botAs many posts on this blog can attest, I am generally very pro-bot. Bots needn’t produce spam and influence campaigns; instead, […]

]]> 706da21be9aec599afc897456d71480b Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4265 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:49:52 -0500 LLM malaiseYou may have seen my previous posts about my initial attempts to code with LLMs. At the time, they seemed promising. But in the […]

]]> cf5463839a3473aabcd6cf7585da5ec3 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4233 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 01:55:57 -0500 ManifoldOur new journal, Humanities Methods in Librarianship, is now on Manifold. We invite you check out the new site and let us know […]

]]> fc3cb7cf166b6e1f2696e52871923728 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4215 Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:23:46 -0400 Humanities Methods in Librarianship: Call for peer reviewersHere is a call for peer reviewers for Humanities Methods in Librarianship (where I am on the editorial board) that I hope will be […]

]]> a05ceb84fd08546fab9f01d910eef304 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4111 Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:42:20 -0400 Two papersIn the past couple of weeks, I’ve published two papers. I just wanted to plug them briefly here: “From Weberian Rationalization […]

]]> e38c82eb4f694905e77c4a56a1e2be01 Mark Eaton joined the group CUNY Manifold Users https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1097041/ Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:31:33 -0400 302b4ebc9543a3768e72b7cb817fe231 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4069 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:07:15 -0400 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 […]

]]> 4bbbf51d26fec69cb2bab9e9daef3db2 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4049 Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:31:09 -0400 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 […]

]]> 3901111b279cb8f9c7960550dc7d2427 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4009 Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:09:05 -0400 Further into tildegitA couple of years ago, I posted about how I was mirroring some GitHub repositories on tildegit. Since then, GitHub has continued […]

]]> e2578d79a80c3718e10aed52901ab833 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3971 Mon, 28 Jul 2025 21:37:18 -0400 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 […]

]]> 6f6d2de5209f1b96120054770df38406 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3915 Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:34:12 -0400 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 […]

]]> 035f7e89f7ca8cf160239615d2110835 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3889 Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:46:38 -0400 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 […]

]]> 4eead9cc365c9d294148011dd5558de1 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3853 Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:12:31 -0400 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 […]

]]> 3b78a000d24987069fcfa9551d64d0d4 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3775 Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:50:56 -0400 Against IMRaD In my opinion, the scholarly literature of librarianship has an IMRaD problem. IMRaD is an acronym that stands for “Introduction, […]

]]> 18bb00b49c55a4489f950afca0792b67 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3767 Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:45:35 -0400 🚨 Call for editors 🚨Apply by September 15th, 2025 Humanities Methods in Librarianship – a new, no-fee, open access journal – is looking for edi […]

]]> b8ee81e9be5e1042831f8bd96a384339 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3727 Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:45:50 -0400 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 […]

]]> 2bd116b80fb34d49fa401d21f5c15934 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3699 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:15:30 -0400 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 […]

]]> 366dba82eb6ae1349bedd1e7db851df3 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3633 Sat, 17 May 2025 23:47:38 -0400 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 […]

]]> cc816d099a0b1e45fd9af53ab8f7d70c Mark Eaton commented on the post, In praise of the case study, on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/04/11/in-praise-of-the-case-study/#comment-13 Wed, 07 May 2025 18:00:52 -0400 One of my co-workers feels the same way about book reviews: once you’ve addressed the book, you can go ahead and say what you want. It’s important and constructive to sometimes find such moments of freedom in […]

]]> 4d4e61c1dcc117c38c5df90049108a87 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3611 Sat, 03 May 2025 21:55:39 -0400 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 […]

]]> 7f63f8834cd07ee8abc562333790985e Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3531 Fri, 02 May 2025 14:32:04 -0400 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 […]

]]> b9a45b95eab1df6f8ebda8d3d4b9f33d Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3483 Fri, 02 May 2025 03:04:19 -0400 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 […]

]]> de6b588090ff4536595697cbf8f731c4 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3475 Sun, 27 Apr 2025 04:06:14 -0400 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 […]

]]> a49e3ca275a591fd96ec5bd81c01312f Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3463 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:29:12 -0400 Code4Lib Journal issue 60I just wanted to point out that Code4Lib Journal, issue 60 is now published! Quality Control Automation for Student Driven […]

]]> 62bf5a0b76b56f97b7e163d660a0e60c Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3437 Sat, 12 Apr 2025 02:58:05 -0400 In praise of the case studyThe academic literature of librarianship is a bit narrow sometimes. Most journals expect conformity to an article structure taken […]

]]> 08b8f6eb03b72666df85c8e150e98ca4 Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3421 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:34:27 -0400 In praise of BootstrapWhile I’m pretty sure that it is very out of style by now, I still really like the aesthetics and functionality of Bootstrap. As […]

]]> 45b8a916cea37b5a11c1d4e3e792ea5b Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3369 Sat, 15 Mar 2025 07:12:57 -0400 OJSOur library is OJS-curious these days, so I thought I’d set up a test instance so that we can kick the tires. This post is a quick […]

]]> dc351e3c3737fd7874350544aeb3f65e Mark Eaton wrote a new post on the site Library Technology at Kingsborough https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3351 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:02:10 -0400 Code4Lib 2025The annual Code4Lib conference was earlier this week, and as always, it was inspiring and motivating. This was my 5th Code4Lib, […]

]]> 71c44e8bfa5c09a5415d03e26d1cbcb8 Mark Eaton replied to the topic OJS at CUNY in the forum Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=179853 Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:55:24 -0400 Thanks, Jojo. I will reach out with more details by email!

]]> 9410f13fb05c5837e1f33d5fbbc637f6 Mark Eaton replied to the topic OJS at CUNY in the forum Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=179805 Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:51:43 -0400 Installing a test instance is a good idea! We are not prepared to self-host a production version at Kingsborough, so we would be looking at the hosted option instead. But we are totally prepared to install a test so that we can kick the tires. It would also be a super interesting way to get more perspective on what is happening under the hood.…[Read more]

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