Refactoring DLTJ, Winter 2021 Part 3: ‘Serverless’ Newsletter System
So it has been quiet here for a couple of days. Rest assured: the quietness comes from heads-down work, not from giving up. Here are the refactor-DLTJ activi...
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Refactoring DLTJ, Winter 2021 Part 2.5: Fixing the Webmentions Cache
Okay, a half-step backward to fix something I broke yesterday. As I described earlier this year, this static website blog uses the Webmention protocol to no...
Refactoring DLTJ, Winter 2021 Part 2: Adopt AWS Amplify
Look at that! Progress is being made down the list of to-dos for this blog in order to start the new year on a fresh footing. As you might recall from the ...
Refactoring DLTJ, Winter 2021 Part 1: Picking up Obsidian
As 2021 comes to a close, I’ve been thinking about this blog and my own “personal knowledge management” tools. It is time for some upgrades to both. The ne...
What EDUCAUSE’s 2022 Top 10 IT Issues Mean for Libraries
Last month, EDUCAUSE published its Top 10 IT Issues for 2022 with the subtitle “The Higher Education We Deserve”. To reach the top 10, EDUCAUSE members were ...
On the Code4Lib Journal’s Two Proposed Metrics article
Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) editor here. Becky Yoose’s Twitter thread has stirred up a great deal of attention to an article published yesterday. This post has m...
DLTJ Now Uses Webmention and Bridgy to Aggregate Social Media Commentary
When I converted this blog from WordPress to a static site generated with Jekyll in 2018, I lost the ability for readers to make comments. At the time, I th...
Digital Repository Software: How Far Have We Come? How Far Do We Have to Go?
Bryan Brown’s tweet led me to Ruth Kitchin Tillman’s Repository Ouroboros post about the treadmill of software development/deployment. And wow do I have tho...
Thoughts on Growing Up
It ‘tis the season for graduations, and this year my nephew is graduating from high school. My sister-in-law created a memory book—”a surprise Book of Advice...
More Thoughts on Pre-recording Conference Talks
Over the weekend, I posted an article here about pre-recording conference talks and sent a tweet about the idea on Monday. I hoped to generate discussion abo...
Should All Conference Talks be Pre-recorded?
The Code4Lib conference was last week. That meeting used all pre-recorded talks, and we saw the benefits of pre-recording for attendees, presenters, and con...
User Behavior Access Controls at a Library Proxy Server are Okay
Earlier this month, my Twitter timeline lit up with mentions of a half-day webinar called Cybersecurity Landscape - Protecting the Scholarly Infrastructure. ...