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Remembering Anchor CMS

On a whim, today I searched for Anchor CMS, an old PHP CMS I tried out after I jumped off WordPress the first time. As soon as I started reading, I... Read more

More Beekeeping Adventures

Beekeeping is rolling on this year. We took some time to spin out our modest harvest this year which yielded us nearly 50 pounds of wildflower hone... Read more

Lowest Necessary Requirements

A goal of mine this year is to ride my bike more. I'm starting a new job that is bike-commutable, which is a big deal when you live in a rural area... Read more

The Box with Too Many Bees

Beekeeping stories keep on coming this month it seems. During my inspection a little over a week ago, one of my boxes was out of space. Bees had be... Read more

Back to the Lab

Today is my last day with my current school district. A little over eight years ago, I started mid-year, taking over a class that had been taught b... Read more

My Friend MAET

This degree has taken me a long time. I started in 2014 and thought I would get it finished right away. Life changes brought that to a stop, which ... Read more

Using Mastodon's Advanced UI as a Fediverse Dashboard

About a month ago, I was looking for some kind of catch-all fediverse app which would syndicate multiple places into one space. Bonfire looks like ... Read more

We Lost a Queen

I've been much more on top of my beekeeping chores this year than I was last year. This year's colonies are three wild swarms caught in the area (o... Read more

Goals Moving Forward

Coming off my recent post on my changing goals ten years into my degree, now I want to take a look forward and set some learning goals for the comi... Read more

Some Recent Arting

I needed an unplugged activity to bring some non-technical creative balance to my life. I decided that sketching and watercolors were what I wanted... Read more

Humanize the LMS with Feedback

I've written about this on the work blog before, but never here. We're doing some course cleanup prepping for the fall and, at the same time, I'm f... Read more

Smarter Templating with HTMX and Flask

I've been using HTMX for a couple years now and I'm still loving the patterns and interaciton it allows without relying on writing Javascript for e... Read more

My Best Getting Started Strategy

I work a reduced schedule during the summer and one thing I constantly run into is not really knowing where to start when I come into work after se... Read more

Moving from beach to nh3

I happened to see a post about bleach, a text input santization library, deprecated in January. I have a couple of apps which use this library to s... Read more

Goals, 10 Years Later

I took the long-tail approach to my master's degree - ten years later, this is a look back at my initial goals and a reflection on my professional ... Read more

No, I Don't Want Your AI Assistant

I opt out of most prompts from sites and services to use their "intelligent" tools becuase I don't want them to harvest any more information from m... Read more

A Manifesto for Online Learning

Online spaces are, by default, open spaces The World Wide Web was created with open spaces in mind. It allowed anyone, anywhere to publish and see ... Read more

Knowing AI Limits

I've spent the last couple of weeks taking deep dives into LLMs and how they work. Stephen Wolfram's essay (more of a mini-book) took me several da... Read more

Not Being on EduTwitter

I jumped off of Twitter several months ago and haven't really participated in anything specifically education-related on social media. Maybe this i... Read more

Rules and Mercy

I'm re-listening to The Expanse novels on my drive to and from work and a piece of dialogue caught me this morning: "Easy to make rules," Emma said... Read more

We Took a Trip

I wanted to write up a beautful travel journal with a custom post theme and write prose like Wendell Berry about our vacation this month. But then ... Read more

Leaning Hard into Vivaldi Browser

I've been a Vivaldi user for several years, but this year, I pushed hard into making it as efficient and usable for me as possible. Some of this wa... Read more

Breaks

The broken things in life are continuing to assault my weekends. Our washing machine had a mysterious leak which I finally identified. (No, it wasn... Read more

Yes, it Uses Wifi - Weeknotes for 2023-03-31

I ended up writing (and publishing) a lot this week. Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed if you don't want to miss any of my drivel. Are we the ba... Read more

How Many? How Long?

School Shootings Another week in the US has another school shooting. As of writing, that is 13 fatal incidents on school grounds since January 1, 2... Read more

It's New Notebook Day

It's new notebook day, and there was much rejoicing. Granted, I didn't fill up my last one nearly as fast as I should have, but still. My fondness ... Read more

Digital Notes Aren't for Me

I want to take digital notes well, but I can't seem to find a system I like. With so many moving pieces to my work, notes are really important. I'm... Read more

Learning Communities

Community is still heavy on my mind this week. It's easy to argue for authentic learning experiences. We want students to relate learning to the "r... Read more

The Slow Week - Weeknotes for 2023-03-24

Not much happening This was a very quiet week. I attended a conference at the end of last week, which always takes a lot of energy. I also had a gr... Read more

The Endless Benefit of Learning to Fix Things

I can honestly say, without a doubt, that learning how to fix things is one of the best skills and habits I've developed. In the moment, when somet... Read more

ALL the QR Codes - Weeknotes for 2023-03-17

Don't worry about running out of QR codes We got talking at work this week on how many possible QR codes there are. It's a lot. I've been learning ... Read more

Consistency and Variety

I got asked this week about our goals with using Canvas as a learning platform. I didn't know that question was coming and the answer I gave was "c... Read more

Planning for a Conference

I'm heading to MACUL this week and I realized that I have an entire confence prep routine that I go through to make sure I get the most out of atte... Read more

Curves and Communication - Weeknotes for 2023-03-06

A variety of things This seems like the best way to verify journalists on the fediverse. Here's how the Washington Post verified its journalists on... Read more

Using Vivaldi Over Arc

I've been bouncing between Arc and Vivaldi as the browser of choice for non-work related Internet things. I think I've finally settled on using Viv... Read more

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