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 […]
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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Delaware Watergap and Dennis MA Photos
We camped at Dingmans Campground in PA’s Deleware Water Gap Recreational area. The trip from VA through PA led to some new roadside views. At the actual place, we did some hiking and two of us opted to swim in the pool created by this waterfall (which was much larger and cooler than it appears […]
Modest ePub Sharing Protection
As Middlebury closes the MIIS campus, we are also closing our non-credit online offerings. The courses were in Canvas and, in cases where the faculty agree, we wanted to provide students with ongoing access to the content. We chose to export the Canvas courses as an ePub. Canvas supports that natively. There was also the […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-06-28
Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface — Smashing Magazine When an interface relies solely on conversation, it imposes a dual burden: a linguistic challenge for input and a cognitive challenge for output. We’ll examine both separately below. Source: Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface — Smashing Magazine […]