Notices by Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚📖✍🏻🍵] (platypus@glammr.us)

I'm doing an intro to cell cross in OpenRefine today (03/26) at 1pm Eastern!

Zoom link and details here:

https://ruthtillman.com/talk/cell-cross-webinar-2020-03/

If you can't make the webinar, I will be changing that page right after to a tutorial and a youtube video I've already recorded, so save the link!

receipts on little free libraries and police: https://littlefreelibrary.org/community/

(note that the URL here is /community -- and what does that mean? well the page is 100% about police )

Got a draft copy of our group's white paper all laid out and pretty so I'm gonna get to go through and read it and look for any errors and I am sooooo excited!

Folks who do wikidata, would appreciate support on my proposal to remove the constraint that anyone added to an item as its programmer must have a "sex or gender" statement on their own wikidata item record: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P943#Other_%22creator%22_types_do_not_require_sex_or_gender

"Remember: If it's not ISO 8601, it's not a date, it's just hanging out"

Ok, so I have a tweet that's getting kind of popular on birbsite and I want to share the essence here too:

A guy tweeted that MySpace had lost all the music uploaded to it from 2003-2015. " An entire archive just... gone, forever."

So... this is your periodic reminder that uploading stuff to a website isn't an archive.

make your ssh passphrase something which DELIGHTS you to type.

Wise words on technology creep from a former coworker:

"But again, be forewarned. We were told this same thing with the advent of word processors, and in the end, we didn’t go home early because we got our work done. Instead we output more letters."

#CSS Tip:

If you're searching for info about CSS, add "mdn" to your search (works for duckduck go, google, maybe other stuff?) to get the Mozilla Developer Network which is really really good documentation compared to some stuff out there.

Here, please enjoy a search for books about: Year 2000 date conversion (Computer systems) Fiction.

https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=su%3AYear+2000+date+conversion+%28Computer+systems%29+Fiction.&qt=hot_subject

Coping with system error messages by cross-stitching and framing them. #art #craft #crossstitch #sewing #LibraryLife

tfw you realize your script will be doing it in production so you add a line to make backups. 😅

What are your preferred alternatives to Google Drive's shared documents for writing/editing? Preferring ones which don't require accoutn/login!

Please Boost!?

Find those online secrets they don't want you to know about with the WAyback Machine.

“When did people lose faith in [science, public institutions, etc.]” ... actually always/they never had it? There’s always been a subset who put ridic and unjustified levels of faith in stuff like science (see early 20th cent medicine before you @ me) and those who are impossible to convince/who only believe what suits them.

And they’ve always been wide swaths of population too

I am unsurprised and still angry that Tesla would avoid things like yellow warning paint because it's unsightly and generally put its employees at higher risks ...

"Some didn’t know they’d be working with 1,200-degree molten metal."

Get these workers a union yesterday.

https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Hey #librarians, #librarystudents, #archivists #curators ... the GLAMMrus (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Memory Institutions, and Records Managers) instance is open to registration and tooting! we are glammr.us!

More about us here: https://glammr.us/about/more

We really want to welcome all kinds of folks working in this general area for professional and ordinary convos! Public, academic, big, small... students, techy types, reference wizes, circ workers come on over!

Per an email from our dean, there are flyers about "punishing" Muslims being put up here and at other campuses. So keep your eyes open and take that shit down.