That’s K.P.O.A.S.P.P. for those of you playing along at home. Anyway, here’s how I ended up writing up our issues with academic software purchasing. I think it’s got to be hitting other places as well. More stuff, more complexity, more concerns, and less people and funds can’t be unique to our organization. Even without financial […]
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The lens bokeh and the net lines lead to some interesting effects at times. I need to do something more intentional with it. A blurry photo but one that reminded me of an old nature documentary showing gazelles grazing during a heat wave in Africa. Kind of a fun obstruction shot. The colors line up […]
Problem Bulk publish/unpublish in Canvas modules does not work on files. The UI does not make that apparent at all. Semi-solution Support should have told me that I can go to files and do bulk publish/unpublish there. Those actions impact the files displayed in modules. It’s not a perfect response but it’s better than nothing. […]
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We Need To Rewild The InternetThe first magnificent bounty had not been the beginning of endless riches, but a one-off harvesting of millennia of soil wealth built up by biodiversity and symbiosis. Complexity was the goose that laid golden eggs, and she had been slaughtered. The story of German scientific forestry transmits a timeless truth: […]
Tracker Beeper – Bert Hubert’s writingsMakes a little bit of noise any time your computer sends a packet to a tracker or a Google service, which excludes Google Cloud users. https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller h/t D’Arcy Norman and Alan Levine The Ultimate CSS Shapes Collection […]
Isotope · Filter & sort magical layouts Filterizr | Create responsive galleries Hanover book nook creator’s ‘censored’ Girl Scout Gold Award“I would like to let you, the Board of Supervisors know, that you have bestowed upon me the greatest honor you could. Greater than that of any proclamation, in your censorship of my Gold Award,” […]
It’s tiny turtle season. Note the size of my two fingers. This guy was little. […]
Another entry in my I-guess-other-people-might-have-to-write-something-like-this series of posts . . . The following is my initial attempt to contextualize Canvas data should it be requested in academic integrity investigations. This is my own opinion and doesn’t represent any place I might or might not work.<footnote>See how vague that sentence is? That means it’s basically a […]
I wrote the following document to try to pretty aggressively discourage instructors from using all the free/freemium products out there. It falls pretty heavily on the FUD side of things. I have mixed feelings about writing it. I think it does paint an accurate picture of the environment and of just how hard it is […]
t.30=Ovipares et Serpens t.1 (1788) – Histoire naturelle, ge?ne?rale et particulie?re – Biodiversity Heritage Library AI isn’t useless. But is it worth it?Some are surprised when they discover I don’t think blockchains are useless, either. Like so many technologies, blockchains are designed to prioritize a few specific characteristics (coordination among parties who don’t trust one […]