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 […]

TransformativeRecently, I posted about my commitment to read one academic article per day. It’s now been just over a month that I’ve been doing […]

NASA hackathonThe last hackathon I attended was quite a while ago. It was at MIT, which was fun, and I think the theme was bookish. I really […]

Neovim as a word processorI recently posted about using Lua to configure my neovim setup. This has been altogether a big improvement. One thing that is […]

Committing to reading one academic article per dayThis post is a bit of a departure from the library technology stuff I usually post about, but I feel that it is very much core […]

LuaI’ve liked the idea of the Lua programming language since reading about it in Coding Places: Software Practice in a South American […]

Further into QuasarIn my last post on Quasar, I was just getting started with the framework, basically taking components from the docs and trying […]

Firefox on a ChromebookGoogle has caused a controversy these past few days by disabling uBlock Origin in the latest version of Chrome. uBlock is the most […]