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 […]

On sometimes needing to explicitly copy Python dictsI recently ran into a Python problem that stumped me for a bit. I was looping through a list of dicts and modifying the dicts […]

LinkblogI’ve created a new linkblog on Mastodon, which is to be a feed of interesting things I’ve found on the web. There’s not much there […]

Summer, againSummer is upon us at the Kingsborough Library! The fiscal year has ended, commencement is over, and things have quieted down in […]

#blogjuneThis year, like in past years, a handful of librarians are doing #blogjune, which is a challenge to blog every day for the month […]

ThouMe from earlier today on Mastodon: There’s a certain type of compartmentalization to social media that I don’t like. For […]

JavaScript for teaching and learningIt turns out that JavaScript has proven more useful for my job than Python. I certainly use it more. I assume this is an […]

QuasarRecently, I wanted to build a nice table for the web, with things like toggles, column sorting, pagination and so on. I know […]

Code formattersUse a code formatter! That’s it. That’s the whole post. If you’re writing code, you should probably assure that it’s formatted […]