Author Archives: Mark Eaton

Code4Lib Journal issue 60

By Mark Eaton | Published: April 14, 2025

I just wanted to point out that Code4Lib Journal, issue 60 is now published! https://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue60 Quality Control Automation for Student Driven Digitization Workflows OpenWEMI: A Minimally Constrained Vocabulary for Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item Taming the Generative AI Wild West: Integrating Knowledge Graphs in Digital Library Systems Gamifying Information Literacy: Using Unity and Github to […]

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In praise of the case study

By Mark Eaton | Published: April 11, 2025

The academic literature of librarianship is a bit narrow sometimes. Most journals expect conformity to an article structure taken directly from the social sciences. In my experience, this can chafe at a librarian’s creativity: we sometimes need to go to tremendous efforts to find ways to shoehorn our ideas into that social science article structure, […]

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In praise of Bootstrap

By Mark Eaton | Published: April 4, 2025

While I’m pretty sure that it is very out of style by now, I still really like the aesthetics and functionality of Bootstrap. As an example of its utility, I recently coded up a quick, off-the-cuff static page with Bootstrap. I could make it look nice with only one ‹link› tag and no JS or […]

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OJS

By Mark Eaton | Published: March 15, 2025

Our 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 summary of the steps needed to get this working: Install KVM and virt-manager (and dependencies) on my laptop, to create and manage virtual machines. Spend quite a while […]

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Code4Lib 2025

By Mark Eaton | Published: March 14, 2025

The annual Code4Lib conference was earlier this week, and as always, it was inspiring and motivating. This was my 5th Code4Lib, and it has become an important part of my professional life. Talks range from the very high-level to the very detailed, and it is testament to this community that they reliably inspire no matter […]

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Pivot

By Mark Eaton | Published: February 20, 2025

As I get older, I recognize that my capacity to contribute meaningful code to librarianship is diminishing. For me, coding was originally a backup plan: a career path that I could pursue if I didn’t get tenure. But it didn’t come to that, thankfully. Also, it turned out that I love coding, and that it […]

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Obligatory static site generator post

By Mark Eaton | Published: January 23, 2025

This past week, the CUNY Academic Commons — the home for this blog — was offline for a few days, as they were migrating to new hosting. Then, when it came back, you may have noticed that the theme for the blog was all wonky, and some of the functionality was not working. Anyhow, this […]

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Log

By Mark Eaton | Published: January 10, 2025

On 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 log of all of the work things that I did. With very few exceptions, I’ve kept logging every day since then. The log is now approaching 10,000 entries, so I […]

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Further into GitHub Actions

By Mark Eaton | Published: December 23, 2024

Since my last post, I’ve been moving more things over to GitHub Actions. It has been an interesting journey. Some things are pretty straightforward to port from PythonAnywhere Tasks. Others have puzzled me a bit more. As an example of the latter, I wanted to set up my rss-to-mastodon bot as a GitHub Action. It’s […]

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GitHub Actions

By Mark Eaton | Published: December 19, 2024

Today I moved some bots from PythonAnywhere over to GitHub Actions. This is a follow-up to my previous post about migrating the front-end of the bots over to mastodon.ocert.at. Now I’m modernizing the back-end with GitHub Actions. There were a few reasons for this switch: I get GitHub Pro services for free via the GitHub […]

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