Managerialism and the humanities in library scholarhsip

Working on the Humanities Methods in Librarianship editorial recently has me wondering (in more detail than usual) why our discipline traditionally doesn’t use humanities methods when studying libraries and librarianship. I would suggest that a having purportedly “interdisciplinary” field that nonetheless largely excludes the wide swath of humanities methods is a bit peculiar. An important… Continue reading Managerialism and the humanities in library scholarhsip

Humanities Methods in Librarianship: Issue 0 editorial

Today, Humanities Methods in Librarianship published its Issue 0 editorial. The editorial is our initial best attempt at a statement on the motivations behind the journal. But aside from this collective editorial statement, we feel that it is very important to communicate the perspectives of the individual editors as well, so we have linked another… Continue reading Humanities Methods in Librarianship: Issue 0 editorial

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Notifications

My journey running scheduled jobs using systemd has been going fine. But one challenge I am facing is that because systemd does things in the background — which is good and as intended — it can easily fail silently and I won’t know that jobs aren’t completing. Of course this matters more for some things… Continue reading Notifications

Vibe, part 2

So now that I have a subscription to Claude Code and have poked at it a bit, I felt it was time for a fully vibe-coded project. This is in advance of the librarians’ vibe workshop, which starts on Monday. I considered this for a few days and ultimately settled on building a Mastodon bot.… Continue reading Vibe, part 2

Sandboxing

In my last post, I talked about how I only trust Claude Code about as far as I can throw it. Beyond what I linked in my previous post, Simon Willison continues to post stories about coding LLMs exfiltrating data. This is not my area of expertise, but the problems seem significant, and are being… Continue reading Sandboxing

Claude code

I’m looking forward to this semester’s vibe coding workshop for librarians. I was notified that I was accepted into the program yesterday. It should be fun! I’m told we’ll be using Claude Code, so I set this up on my laptop last night. First of all, I don’t particularly trust Claude Code. Allowing an agent… Continue reading Claude code

Systemd

In a previous post, I talked about using systemd to schedule jobs, specifically, in my case, running a Teams bot and a dependency checker called Renovate. There’s more to explore here with regards to systemd, and I think it might be worth thinking about some of these things more carefully. First of all, systemd runs… Continue reading Systemd

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Vibe

I have applied to what I’ve been calling the “vibe coding workshop,” which is more officially known as the Agentic AI Peer-Mentoring Program. It’s an interesting initiative from CUNY’s Office of Library Services to teach CUNY librarians how to code with agentic AI. To be fair, I suspect that most people who learn to code… Continue reading Vibe

Renovate

I’ve posted previously about how I want to move away from GitHub and toward Gitea and the tildeverse. But GitHub, in its enterprisey way, has some useful features that are hard to give up. Specifically I am thinking of the Dependabot, which watches your repositories and warns you (with a pull request) when your dependencies… Continue reading Renovate