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
Category: meta
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
On my occasional disavowals of coding
Every once in a while, I write a post talking about how I’m going to (more or less) walk away from coding. But nonetheless, the coding projects continue, and this blog endures. This speaks to the compelling power of writing code, even when work and/or life pulls in other directions. Programming, as many people will… Continue reading On my occasional disavowals of coding
Comments
An important part of keeping this blog sustainable has been keeping the comments only open to signed-in Commons members. I undoubtedly make some dumb posts, but I don’t need strangers telling me that. Reading the comments — especially critical comments — requires labor that I don’t have the bandwidth for, so I keep the comments… Continue reading Comments
Guest blogging
For the next little while, I’m going to be guest blogging over at Choice’s new LibTech Insights blog. My first post is up already! It’s about Mastodon. My intention is to keep Library Technology at Kingsborough going as well. Wish me luck!
Top 10
I just noticed that in the WordPress classic editor, you can list your blog’s top 10 most used tags! If this were 2005, I would make a word cloud! For your amusement or interest, here they are for this blog: learning journal recommender LibGuides Python JavaScript Twitter Google Mastodon API homepage
Seven years
As of today, this blog has been running for seven years. While there have been some hard times, there have also been some optimistic moments where I’ve been really glad to do this kind of work. And while I’ve posted some charts over the years, I’m proud to say that I have yet to post… Continue reading Seven years
