The 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 promoting their call. Likewise, the call for the first issue Humanities Methods in Librarianship closes on Friday, and while… Continue reading On credibility
New theme
The 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 web content with a fair bit of paranoia. Today was the blog’s turn to get some attention. The… Continue reading New theme
LLMs and librarianship in one’s second language
My last post led to a thread on Mastodon about the merits of LLM-assisted writing in one’s second language. There were some interesting replies, some of which are unfortunately behind the đź”’, so I can’t share them here. After some consideration, I think I can do better than my last post by not letting the… Continue reading LLMs and librarianship in one’s second language
Seeing like my students: writing in a second language
Ce billet de blogue constitue une tentative de rĂ©daction dans ma langue adoptĂ©e. Il procède d’un dĂ©sir de mieux comprendre mes Ă©tudiants, qui rĂ©digent souvent dans une langue qui n’est pas la leur. Il s’agit, plus prĂ©cisĂ©ment, de comprendre les outils qu’ils utilisent Ă cette fin, notamment les grands modèles de langage (LLM). Je sais… Continue reading Seeing like my students: writing in a second language
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 Comprehensive Guide to Digital Inclusion, now in a second edition. This book has been one of the main driving forces behind our library’s progress toward compliance with impending accessibility requirements. Firth’s book… Continue reading In praise of “Practical Web Accessibility”
Blogging as an embarrassingly rough draft
If you’ve followed this blog for a while, I am honestly quite confused. This blog is not particularly insightful or well thought out. I have a tendency to just barf up posts and publish them. But I’m also not apologizing: this is an important part of my workflow. There are many steps between an idea… Continue reading Blogging as an embarrassingly rough draft
Code4Lib 2026
I’m currently on my way to Philadelphia to attend the last day of the Code4Lib 2026 conference. While I would have loved to attend the whole thing, available days and budget were real limiting factors. I will be attending two workshops tomorrow which both sound really interesting. I’m also hoping to have some conversations about… Continue reading Code4Lib 2026
CfP
The first Call for Papers for Humanities Methods in Librarianship went out on Friday. For those of us who have been working on this project for the past year, this is a big milestone. It is, in fact, quite remarkable that we’ve made it this far. It is very easy to underestimate the amount of… Continue reading CfP
Projectification, vibes and the library
One thing that programmers are very comfortable with is a project. We tend to instinctively break things down into project-sized units: features, side-projects, commits, deliverables, and so on. This is actually one of the powerful things about programmatic thinking. Projectifying finds a potent expression in code. But in some ways is also quite distinct: we… Continue reading Projectification, vibes and the library
Yegge
I 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 that storing state for Claude Code in markdown files is not optimal. Beads addresses this by handling state more robustly with git. Yegge casts a rather long shadow over… Continue reading Yegge
