I’m going to put biology, environmental sciences, and some other things associated with biology in my head in this post. This does not reflect the political realities of VCU where it’s a very big deal that these things are not in biology. I’m not going to get to nearly all of these and I don’t […]
Year: 2021
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-02-21
Open Syllabus: Galaxy Repl.it – The collaborative browser based IDEpretty slick 7 Inspiring Headless WordPress Examples Out in the Wild (2021) Sample Breakdown: Britney Spears – Toxic – YouTube Ed Solomon on Twitter: “Update: my old friend sent me this. It’s an interesting look – from an entirely different angle. (And I realize I had […]
VCU: The Long Goodbye (Patterned but not Standard)
I’m trying to document this idea better because I’ve had trouble communicating it in the way that I want as I’ve started my new job.1 A dog is a chihuahua is a great dane WordPress multisite is a thing but it’s a thing that can be as different as a chihuahua is from a great […]
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NS Cloner Function Details
NS Cloner is a plugin to duplicate sites in a WordPress multisite environment. It’s particularly nice because it has a function that you can call from other processes. Their documentation is not quite as nice. It gets you started but it’s clearly meant for people who are pretty comfortable. The following sentence is indicative of […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-02-14
How Shipping Containers End Up in the Ocean – WSJNice multi axis interactive visual explanation of how a ship loses shipping containers in rough seas. The Ingenuity of The ‘Ha-Ha’ | Amusing PlanetIn those early days, before mechanical lawn mowers, sheep and cattle were often allowed to graze on the ground to keep the grassland […]
VCU: The Long Goodbye (Art)
Man. These are taking some time to write and I know I’m missing all kinds of stuff. I really have to think through how to do this better for the future. I also found out VCU turned off the Google Takeout option so there’s no easy way to archive my mail or get anything else […]
VCU: The Long Goodbye (AFAM and ANTH)
Here’s another stuff-I-did-in-the-past post. It may be doing this does a couple things for me. Whenever I’ve entered a new job I have felt like a moron who knows nothing desperately trying to show I know something and am useful without coming off as desperate.1 Trying to make new friends while learning new acronyms and […]
VCU: The Long Goodbye (part one)
I’ll be leaving VCU and starting a new job at Middlebury College as of February 15.1 Turns out I’ve been working at VCU since November of 2013.2 That’s a long time for me. I tend to move around a lot more frequently or at least change jobs within the institution. I’ve been working with Matt […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-02-07
The Wrong Question – O’ReillyMaking people angry might increase shareholder value short-term. But that probably isn’t a sustainable business; and if it is, it’s a business that does incredible social damage. The “solution” isn’t likely to be legislation; I can’t imagine laws that regulate algorithms effectively, and that can’t be gamed by people who are […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-01-31
Update on the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress BlogThe Library now has a secure collection of tweet text, documenting the first 12 years (2006-2017) of this dynamic communications channel—its emergence, its applications and its evolution. Today, we announce a change in collections practice for Twitter. Effective Jan. 1, 2018, […]