This is real simple. iNaturalist has an open API, so you don’t need to sign up for a key or anything to use it for basic things. iOS shortcuts lets you do a ...
Gathering Points: I’ve been experimenting with writing-in-public as a way of exploring speculative ideas without worrying too much about their polish. Gat...
I was delighted this week to discover that there is an etymological link between “reference” (in the usual librarian sense) and relation/relational that perf...
The first time I visited McConnell Lake was on a cold morning the first September after I moved to Kamloops. My friend Jenna, the type of person who wakes up...
This is lightly edited entry from the reflection journals I’m keeping during this project. It’s not meant to be polished, grammatical, logical, or a repre...
(The following is a reflection that has at best been lightly edited and does not necessarily reflect my final thinking.) “It is with this in mind that I ...
Weeknotes are where I share what I am doing without worrying too much about them being perfect. They are a way of thinking-in-public. They are written qui...
Weeknotes are where I share what I am doing without worrying too much about them being perfect. They are a way of thinking-in-public. They are written qui...
Weeknotes are where I share what I am doing without worrying too much about them being perfect. They are a way of thinking-in-public. They are written qui...
Weeknotes are where I share what I am doing without worrying too much about them being perfect. They are a way of thinking-in-public. They are written qui...
Weeknotes are where I share what I am doing without worrying too much about them being perfect. They are a way of thinking-in-public. They are written qui...
I needed to test an Obsidian plugin that I’m hoping will make including images in posts here easier by automating how they are named and uploaded to Github p...
Weeknotes are a type of thinking-in-public writting and planning. The idea is to explore ideas without worrying about them being perfect. They are meant to b...
This is a reflection journal that I’m doing as part of my sabbatical. Reflection journals are meant to be informal and exploratory, a way of helping me think...
Weeknotes are a type of thinking-in-public writting and planning. The idea is to explore ideas without worrying about them being perfect. They are meant to b...
“If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it’s useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or le...
Caption: It was a great day for mushrooms at McConnell this weekend! The thing is, its a clever idea but can it carry anything? A methodology needs some...
I love backpacks! I own way too many. Yet I’m always disatisfied with the spacifics. Too many straps in places I don’t want them. A pocket that isn’t just ri...
We’ve been watching a lot of RuPaul lately, and it’s reminded me that people who are very good at doing a thing that requires other people be vulnerable ofte...
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
Autonomy has been baked into the Makerspace’s pedagogies and values from the start. For example, “Interest-based learning and autonomy” is one of our core pe...
“Tools foster conviviality to the extent to which they can be easily used, by anybody, as often or as seldom as desired, for the accomplishment of a purpo...
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share what I’m working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life without worrying too much abo...
Note: this post is cross-posted to the TRU Library Makerspace Blog and the original was posted here: Knitting a Scarf to Visualize the Questions Asked in the...
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share what I’m working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life, without worrying too much about...
Weeknotes are a habit I'm cultivating where I share what I'm working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life, without worrying too much about...
Weeknotes are a habit I'm cultivating where I share what I'm working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life, without worrying too much about...
Weeknotes are a habit I'm cultivating where I share what I'm working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life, without worrying too much about...
Like many, I’ve been playing with LLMs over the past two years, and my own understanding of these technologies continues to evolve the more I use them. There...
Weeknotes are a habit I'm cultivating where I share what I'm working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life, without worrying too much about...
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share writing (and some links) as a thinking-in-public process. The idea is to explore ideas I’m grappling with...
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share writing (and some links) as a thinking-in-public process. The idea is to explore ideas I’m grappling with...
_Weeknotes are a habit I'm cultivating where I share writing (and some links) as a thinking-in-public process. The idea is to explore ideas I'm grappling wit...
quote It was a good thing for me to learn a craft with a true maker. It may have been the best thing I have done. Nothing we do is better than the work o...
Weeknotes are meant to be quick, off-the-cuff reflections on whats happening this week, with a focus on projects and how they are moving forward. situationa...
_Weeknotes are meant to be quick, off-the-cuff reflections on whats happening this week, with a focus on projects and how they are moving forward._ It’s th...
Writing this early on a Monday morning. It’s still dark outside but there’s no snow yet in Kamloops. That feels weird to me, but it’s also starting to feel n...
I give a talk when classes and other groups visit the Makerspace that is meant to explain what we are, how we can be used, and hopefully makes them feel welc...
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It matters what thoughts think thoughts. It matters what knowledges know knowledges. It matters what relations relate relations. It matters what worlds wo...
“I think the meaning of life is to let your heart be broken.” Stephen Levine quoted here Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the purpose of post-sec...
Last week was the first British Columbia Library Conference I’ve attended since 2013, right after I graduated from the UBC iSchool and started my first profe...
It’s Easter Sunday and I should be driving to Vancouver to spend two days with family but instead I’m at home on antibiotics. Two weeks ago I had two bridges...
“Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places” (Haraway, 2...
It’s spring here now and the valley is mostly free of snow. It’s shoulder season and the hills are still icy and the trails muddy. I can wear a light jacket ...
I am going to try occasionally sharing a roundups of things I’ve been reading. I always enjoy the serendipity of skimming other people’s link roundups, and i...
Minimalist making is an idea I’m adapting from Danica Savonick’s concept of “Minimalist Digital Humanities” that builds on the idea of frugal innovation and ...
The XYZ University Sustainability Initiative is a comprehensive project aimed at promoting environmental and economic sustainability on campus. We are see...
“The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience availab...
Okay, fuck it. Let’s start weird. My first actual “let’s write every day and blog a lot of thoughts that are half-baked as a learning in public experiment” p...
This started out as a quick list of books I read in 2022. I have notes because I read almost everything on an ereader and highlight and all that gets auto du...