Open source no-code business automation · Zapier open source alternative · Activepieces Explore – Fra MauroNice explorable historic world map ambient.gardenh/t Grant Potter […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-02-25
How the Memory of a Song Reunited Two Women Separated by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade | History | Smithsonian MagazineThe breakthrough came when Koroma recognized a word from the song as a Mende dialect from southern Sierra Leone. In 1990, the researchers traveled around the country’s Pujehun District, playing the song for villagers in hopes […]
Roughing out some AI thoughts
I’m starting to rough out some things we’ll need to try to get right about AI . . . Obviously these are just notes and aren’t meant to be anything other than stuff I’m trying to shape into coherent thoughts. I do intend to get the AI initiatives by various edu institutions into something more […]
Revisiting Minimal WordPress
I’ve blogged a number of times over the years about minimizing the complexity that’s exposed in WordPress’s dashboard. I’ve done that in a couple different ways. The Gravity Forms-driven front end where you avoid WP’s dashboard entirely is one path. The other way was to just remove stuff that’s like irrelevant to different groups. I […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-02-18
JavaScript Bloat in 2024 @ tonsky.meh/t Tim Klapdor Search, sort, filters, flexibility to tables, list and more! – List.jsTiny, invisible and simple, yet powerful and incredibly fast vanilla JavaScript that adds search, sort, filters and flexibility to plain HTML lists, tables, or anything. Help | Route Analysis | AutodeskLearn about route analysis tools in Revit […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-02-11
University of Michigan Sells Recordings of Study Groups and Office Hours to Train AIh/t Grant Potter MonadGPT – a Hugging Face Space by Pclanglais an open source LLM model trained on early modern books created by Pierre-Carl Langlais, a cultural historian h/t Res Obscura Pinokio | PinokioPinokio is a browser that lets you install, run, […]
Dabbling with the Mastodon API
I’ve been meaning to get all the stuff that used to be automated to Twitter to work with Mastodon. I took about 15 minutes1 after reading a Mastodon-related post from Alan to mess around and see what I could figure out. Now I’ve got 15 minutes to write it down. Consider that half an hour […]
Making a bunch of dropdowns from Google Sheets data
For some ongoing work with the AI Persona bot, I needed to create a drop down that would let you choose a country and get the cultural dimension scores. Turns out there were 120 something countries, each with six possible scores. Luckily, they were given to me in a Google Spreadsheet. Make the data In […]
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Request this workshop
I’m working on a DLINQ website and I’m recycling1 ideas I liked from the old ALT Lab website days.2 This one is about having a list of workshops that we normally offer and making it easy for people to request them. My goal is to try to meet people’s needs for workshops and make what […]
Google Sheets permissions issue and my beliefs about technology and institutional improvement
I was contacted by one of Middlebury’s schools abroad regarding a Google Sheets issue. It’s a pattern you’ve seen before. The main system didn’t support their edge-case needs.1 A person, who has recently moved to a new job elsewhere, set up some Google Sheets to accomplish the task. Now that this person was gone, no […]