Give Django your time and money, not your tokens · Better Simple In this way, an LLM is a facade of yourself. It helps you project understanding, contemplation, and growth, but it removes the transparency and vulnerability of being a human. For a reviewer, it’s demoralizing to communicate with a facade of a human. This […]
Taking photos at events
I went and spoke to some students at my kids’ high school who are in the year book class and are going to do event photography. So I’ve been thinking quite a bit. Turns out there are a lot of things I wanted to talk about. I was pretty excited about doing this and perhaps […]
Google SSO Protected Directory Revision
This is an update to the code that I posted earlier. The changes to the serveFile function deal with the relative path stuff I was seeing in Quatro and allow multiple directories and other more complex setups beyond a single index file. […]
Linocut printmaking
The Internet still works pretty well for me.1 It brought me some examples of linocuts that got me interested in something I haven’t done since 7th grade. I went on my normal pattern of following a bunch of people who do this on Instagram2, watching a random assortment of YouTube videos (from tutorials to documentaries) […]
Viewing ESRI Classic Story Maps
This is both a reflection on governance, a tutorial, and some limited reflection on how job insecurity shapes behavior. ESRI has said they’re going to shut off Classic Story Maps for some time. DLINQ ended up becoming more involved in managing our ESRI stuff due to reductions in staffing in the Geography department and changes […]
Google SSO protection for a directory
We had a textbook that had been created with Quarto1. The instructor wanted to put it online but restrict access to Middlebury people through SSO. The one option I got centrally (paste the individual files into a Google Site) was not optimal. While our Middlebury accounts are limited in Google, I thought I had enough […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-02-22
An Entirely Other Day: Lose Myself People will argue that speaking English to LLMs is just another level of abstraction away from the physics of how the machine actually works. And while that’s technically true — the worst kind of true — it also misses the point. Industrialization fundamentally changes things, by quantum degrees. A […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-02-15
Read “Scientific Advances in Animal Nutrition: Promise for the New Century: Proceedings of a Symposium” at NAP.edu The U.S. Navy has a large collection of marine mammals that are used as military working dogs of the ocean. The Navy also studies the diving physiology, hydrodynamics, and sonar capabilities of marine mammals. Whale and dolphin sonar […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-02-08
Searching for Birds An interactive story about the birds that capture our curiosity, told through data, visuals and illustrations Source: Searching for Birds To Trust or to Think: Cognitive Forcing Functions Can Reduce Overreliance on AI in AI-assisted Decision-making The results demonstrate that cognitive forcing significantly reduced overreliance compared to the simple explainable AI approaches. […]
Cabaret 2026 at Trinity
I shot most of these with the 70-200 2.8. I used an electronic shutter so I wouldn’t disturb anyone with the constant clicking of the shutter. The shutter speeds were pretty slow (160-ish most of the time). I also played around a bit with some really slow shutter speeds and zooming in and out because […]
