My youngest has started travel soccer. Round one was a tournament in Norther VA which is really home of the massive data center. I should have done an entire photo series about those strange buildings standing amidst the strip malls which were former farms, which were former swamps. Maybe next time. I was able to […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-08-16
Transcription Pearl A Python-based GUI application for transcribing and processing images containing historical handwritten text using Large Language Models (LLMs) via API services (OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic APIs). Designed for academic and research purposes. Source: mhumphries2323/Transcription_Pearl: The repository provides access to the source code for Transcription Pearl, an Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) tool, that uses […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-08-09
A Swarm of Blood Robots — by Craig Mod I dumped into Claude my huge document containing all I knew about my adoption. I added stories and notes I had about family members on both maternal and paternal sides. And then I said: OK, you have access to my Ancestry account (via the Chrome plugin), […]
South Carolina Photos
I went with my mom to spread my dad’s ashes in South Carolina. He grew up there and the Woodward family has been in the area since white people first came around. We’ve still got a lot of relatives in the area. I lived in Columbia S.C. when I was in 4th-6th grade before I […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-07-26
Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick – Krebs on Security “An operator can drag blocks together in their Blockly editor, to define each fraud routine, given a task type,” reads Bitsight’s report. “Once the routine is saved, it gets exported as JavaScript and uploaded to the S3 buckets. An operator doesn’t need […]
Power Automate Email Workflow
I admit to struggling mightily with my patience using Power Automate. I can do all of the things I’m attempting in Google Script or with Gravity Forms in WordPress . . . and yet. Some of it is certainly me. Some of it, I would swear, is Power Automate/Microsoft. Anyway, the goal here is to […]
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 […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-07-19
The Rise of Anti-Flock Influencers Who Make Things Up for Clout In that video, he said he’s starting a “bail fund” in case he’s arrested and goes to jail. Collectively, these posts and videos have hundreds of thousands of likes and millions of views. But the cease-and-desist is not real; it is a wholesale fabrication […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-07-12
mhoye: “One of the most important thin…” – ds106 Social One of the most important things I learned at Mozilla was the idea of an explicit “priority of constituencies”; that is, if you have responsibilities to different groups for different reasons, being clear and honest up front about who is at the front of the […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-07-05
How to Prevent Meta From Using Your Instagram Images in A.I. – The New York Times Here’s how it works: On the Meta AI app, a user can tag a public Instagram account and direct the chatbot to create new A.I. photos based on photos from that person’s account. Source: How to Prevent Meta From […]