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 […]
Canvas and bulk unpublishing files in a module
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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Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-05-05
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: […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-04-28
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 […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-04-21
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,” […]
A long time since the last photo post
It’s tiny turtle season. Note the size of my two fingers. This guy was little. […]
Canvas data and academic integrity
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 […]
Necessary FUD?
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 […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-04-14
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 […]
Extracting data using regexextract in Google Sheets
One of our tools has usage data that ends up being three items on one line. Each line of data is something like this 1. email@middlebury.edu 123. The first number doesn’t matter. I want the email address and the last number (which indicates usage hours). In the old days, I’d have rigged something together using […]
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