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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 […]

In praise of the case studyThe academic literature of librarianship is a bit narrow sometimes. Most journals expect conformity to an article structure taken […]

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 […]

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 […]

Code4Lib 2025The annual Code4Lib conference was earlier this week, and as always, it was inspiring and motivating. This was my 5th Code4Lib, […]

PivotAs I get older, I recognize that my capacity to contribute meaningful code to librarianship is diminishing. For me, coding was […]

Obligatory static site generator postThis past week, the CUNY Academic Commons — the home for this blog — was offline for a few days, as they were migrating to new […]

LogOn Saturday, March 14th, 2020, the day after we were sent home on account of the plague’s arrival in New York, I started keeping a […]

Further into GitHub ActionsSince my last post, I’ve been moving more things over to GitHub Actions. It has been an interesting journey. Some things are […]

GitHub ActionsToday I moved some bots from PythonAnywhere over to GitHub Actions. This is a follow-up to my previous post about migrating the […]

Coding with those who show upThis week, I have a new paper out titled “Coding with those who show up: Two methodologies on technical committee work” in […]

Eight months with DebianI checked the date of my previous post, and it has been eight months that I have been running Debian on this old HP laptop. Here […]

CUNY IT Conference 2024The past two days, I have been at CUNY’s 23rd annual IT Conference. It’s a conference I enjoy, even though it’s geared toward IT […]

Further thoughts on building AR projects in librariesCaroline Jedlicka and I recently published a paper in the Journal of Web Librarianship called “Creating a Homemade Mobile […]

Thanksgiving challenge, bots editionIt is getting to be time for my annual post about the Thanksgiving Challenge. Previous editions of this post can be found here, […]

Cmus I’ve been using cmus to listen to music lately. It is rather glorious software. To see what I mean take a look at this […]

SpringyCampThis week, Carrie Jedlicka and I presented at SpringyCamp, the annual Springshare conference. Our talk was called Creating a Fun […]

Fediverse relaysFediverse relays have historically been a bit of a dodgy undertaking. In the past, when I’ve tested a relay, it was a largely […]