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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • Ghost Newsletter Software Findings: Got Past the Mailgun Problem, but Got Stuck On Ugly HTML

    This was going to be only a post about how I got the Ghost newsletter software to use Amazon Simple Email Service (AWS SES) instead of the built-in Mailgun support, but it turned into that plus why I can't use Ghost for the DLTJ Newsletter.

    Ghost's bulk email delivery problem …

     Posted on  July 14, 2024
     and last updated July 14, 2024
     ·  18 minutes reading time

  • 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 thoughts and feelings.

    Featuring an ouroboros, a snake or dragon biting its own tail, a digital representation of a copy of a 1478 drawing by Theodoros Pelecanos of an alchemical tract attributed to Synesius.
    Ouroboros: an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. Or—in this context—constantly chasing what you can never …

     Posted on  June 23, 2021
     and last updated June 23, 2021
     ·  6 minutes reading time

  • Does the Google/Bing/Yahoo Schema.org Markup Promote Invalid HTML?

    [Update on 10-Jun-2011: The answer to the question of the title is "not really" -- see the update at the bottom of this post and the comments for more information.]

    Yesterday Google, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo! announced a project to promote machine-readable markup for structured data on web pages.

    Many sites …

     Posted on  June 03, 2011
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  3 minutes reading time

  • New Web Expectations and Mobile Web Techniques

    Late last year I was asked to put together a 20-minute presentation for my employer (LYRASIS) on what I saw as upcoming technology milestones that could impact member libraries. It was a good piece, so I thought I'd share what I learned with others as well. The discussion was in …

     Posted on  January 26, 2011
     and last updated January 27, 2011
     ·  6 minutes reading time

  • Pointless Mid-Week, Mid-Morning Fun

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    How did you do?

     Posted on  November 29, 2007
     and last updated November 29, 2007