Random Side Quests from the last week or so

PDF for print publishing We’ve got a poetry book, Doves Born of Flames, that was created in PressBooks. Doves Born of Flames is a multilingual poetry anthology with poems in 18 different languages (translated into English) from poets around the world, focused on peace, justice, and healing. “With love and care, and deepest respect for […]

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Badges? Badgr Badges? We don’t need no stinking Badgr

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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A robust WordPress Translation Site

If you swish it around in your mouth and gargle a bit, you’ll taste notes of saffron and coriander! What a nose! Such mouthfeel!1 See folks,2 I am not even hiding my nonsense in the comments any more. That’s one of the refreshing things about having your own site. Because academic projects have timelines that […]

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Actually printing linocuts and some sketches from the road

I’m a bit behind on posting, but I’m still working on linocuts and drawing. This was my first attempt with letters and my first try at creating a particular color by blending ink colors. It’s based on a piece of pottery that my mother-in-law had. As you can see in the first picture, I printed […]

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PressBooks in cPanel – Not Recommended but . . .

I do not recommend this. You might notice that in the title. I also don’t know how well this will work in the long run and do not provide any sort of promises around anything written here. That being said, there is a certain satisfaction in finally accomplishing something difficult even if doing it is […]

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Github action to Domain of One’s Own cPanel account

Man, those click bait titles just keep coming! We have a faculty member publishing with Quarto and wanted to create a nice little publishing workflow to his Domain of One’s Own account. Set up your secrets This is where you set the information that allows you to connect to the server without writing your secrets […]

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