As Middlebury closes the MIIS campus, we are also closing our non-credit online offerings.1 The courses were in Canvas and they used Badgr/Parchment to award badges.2 Of course Instructure ended up changing the rules around using Badgr/Parchment half way through and so, absent money, it stopped working. Pro-tip folks, don’t use any freemium stuff for […]
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John, my eldest, graduated from UVA and took a job as a raft guide in Missoula, MT for the summer. I decide to drive out there with him. In case you were unaware, Montana is a long way away from Virginia. I’ve looked at driving there many times in the past. Strangely, one of my […]
I am a stranger in a strange land . . . One of our instructional designers was doing stuff in Power Automate, and it has led me into a place I normally avoid. Not really out of anything personal, it’s just easy to remain in tool spaces you know better. Most of the places I’ve […]
Here’s a plugin that seems to allow for pretty decent, fairly synchronous LaTeX editing in WordPress. It’s been polished up by Claude Code. That’s why you get a readme.1 While I’m not going to share it more widely at Middlebury2, it does point at some interesting general capabilities that I might use for something else. […]
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I’m working with an anthropology professor to put some Maidu stories online. You can see a functional version of it here. The basic idea is to show the original text on the left and pair it with the English translation. From there, we’re trying to figure out the other things that the site should do. […]
ESRI is sunsetting the Classic StoryMaps. Apparently that was announced in 2019 so they’ve been pretty generous. They provided a link to the content that is going to be retired. I couldn’t figure a decent way to export that content and copy/pasting was a mess.1 It is HTML though and that means I can take […]
I’ve got a couple of faculty members who are doing research that involves old newspapers and magazines. The captures are of varied complexity and quality. Some of them are from the nwespaper.com site, some are phone photographs. I hear that Acrobat’s OCR function does a good job with normal scans of documents. I did a […]
As I tell my kids . . .1 Me: Remember Jim Groom? Kid 1: The guy who shaved his head in our downstairs bathroom? Kid 2: Bava bloody, bava? Kid 3: From that creepy baby picture? Kid 4: The guy you made a pumpkin carving of? Kid 5: That guy on Santa’s lap? Kid 6: […]
My goal this morning was to see if I could tie in the OpenAI API for a project where I uploaded images to WordPress and it automatically extracted the text from the image. Since I’ve been using the OpenAI API previously and had a decent amount of success with text extraction, I went ahead and […]
This is a tiny example of how the little things you learn along the way change how you think about options. Back around 2022, I’d used a little PHP function to scan a directory and build an index to the files there using scandir. At some point later, I used that to create an […]