Peter Binkley
@pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy
a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file […]
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A year ago the Guardian ran a story about a wartime onderduiker (under-diver: someone in hiding from the Nazis) in Enschede named Curt Bloch, a German Jew, who made a poetry magazine called The Underwater Cabaret for other onderduikers and their helpers. It's now online, all 96 issues […]
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January 19, 2026 at 1:52 AM
A year ago the Guardian ran a story about a wartime onderduiker (under-diver: someone in hiding from the Nazis) in Enschede named Curt Bloch, a German Jew, who made a poetry magazine called The Underwater Cabaret for other onderduikers and their helpers. It's now online, all 96 issues […]
Have been talking about our early digitization work a lot this week, and now Facebook showed me a post from 2009 about the craft as we practiced it: "I's the b'y that parses the xml and I's the b'y that transforms her, I's the b'y that generates the html and sends it home to Liza"
January 16, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Have been talking about our early digitization work a lot this week, and now Facebook showed me a post from 2009 about the craft as we practiced it: "I's the b'y that parses the xml and I's the b'y that transforms her, I's the b'y that generates the html and sends it home to Liza"
Trump has a nice reminder of what he'll never have
January 16, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Trump has a nice reminder of what he'll never have
#1lib1ref starts tomorrow! https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/1Bib1Ref_2026_1Lib1Ref
1Bib1Ref 2026 1Lib1Ref - Wikimedia Canada
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January 15, 2026 at 12:01 AM
#1lib1ref starts tomorrow! https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/1Bib1Ref_2026_1Lib1Ref
One thing I've noticed about tv these days is that I don't want to watch any show that has rhythmic scratching instead of a musical soundtrack
January 10, 2026 at 1:21 AM
One thing I've noticed about tv these days is that I don't want to watch any show that has rhythmic scratching instead of a musical soundtrack
If you had offered me the job of prime minister of Denmark a year ago, I would have been all "Sure, I'll give it a go!" Not so much now.
January 9, 2026 at 1:56 AM
If you had offered me the job of prime minister of Denmark a year ago, I would have been all "Sure, I'll give it a go!" Not so much now.
this seminar plan may be getting out of hand, but when life gives you the opportunity to write a manifesto, you have to seize it
January 7, 2026 at 7:19 PM
this seminar plan may be getting out of hand, but when life gives you the opportunity to write a manifesto, you have to seize it
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I know this is pretty small beer in the light of world events, but I was not expecting to have to write “risk of invasion by the USA” into the risk assessment for my fieldwork in Greenland in June.
January 6, 2026 at 8:46 AM
I know this is pretty small beer in the light of world events, but I was not expecting to have to write “risk of invasion by the USA” into the risk assessment for my fieldwork in Greenland in June.
I love bulleted lists but I'm starting to see I'm going to have to give them up so my stuff won't look like slop. Em dashes, though, you'll have to pry out of my cold dead hands.
January 5, 2026 at 11:23 PM
I love bulleted lists but I'm starting to see I'm going to have to give them up so my stuff won't look like slop. Em dashes, though, you'll have to pry out of my cold dead hands.
In December I did the process of suggesting a new name/photo for a Pokestop near the library (it was named for a food place that hasn't been there for years). Got back to work today and the stop is GONE. Not renamed, not updated, just disappeared. I apologize to campus Pokemon Go players. 2026 […]
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January 5, 2026 at 6:12 PM
In December I did the process of suggesting a new name/photo for a Pokestop near the library (it was named for a food place that hasn't been there for years). Got back to work today and the stop is GONE. Not renamed, not updated, just disappeared. I apologize to campus Pokemon Go players. 2026 […]
I wish I could hallucinate as lucidly as LLMs can
December 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I wish I could hallucinate as lucidly as LLMs can
We discussed Ollama on social media today and I didn't once type "Obama" 😤
December 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
We discussed Ollama on social media today and I didn't once type "Obama" 😤
Ollama misbehaved in my workshop yesterday, wrecking most of my live demos. I see the new version, released 17 hours ago has a bugfix: "Fix error that would occur when running qwen2.5vl with image input". Let's see if that helps...
December 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Ollama misbehaved in my workshop yesterday, wrecking most of my live demos. I see the new version, released 17 hours ago has a bugfix: "Fix error that would occur when running qwen2.5vl with image input". Let's see if that helps...
I wonder: after the AI bubble bursts, will there be retro-LLM-ists who post here about how they're recreating the original ChatGPT experience on their quantum phones? "Here's what I had to tweak to get the extra fingers back..."
December 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I wonder: after the AI bubble bursts, will there be retro-LLM-ists who post here about how they're recreating the original ChatGPT experience on their quantum phones? "Here's what I had to tweak to get the extra fingers back..."
I clicked two library catalogue "permalinks" today, one 2 years old and one 15 years old, from different catalogues, and neither one worked. We really shouldn't call them that if we're not going to make it happen.
December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I clicked two library catalogue "permalinks" today, one 2 years old and one 15 years old, from different catalogues, and neither one worked. We really shouldn't call them that if we're not going to make it happen.
(Jane Austen weekends were a thing back then, apparently, but I assume that's blown over)
December 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
(Jane Austen weekends were a thing back then, apparently, but I assume that's blown over)
of the excellent wine, he'll leave you the bottle. I figure it will be a big hit among those who've had enough of Jane Austen weekends. [2/2]
December 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
of the excellent wine, he'll leave you the bottle. I figure it will be a big hit among those who've had enough of Jane Austen weekends. [2/2]
(I shared this on Facebook 10 years ago and the idea just looks better and better) I'm going to move to Denmark and open a "Babette's Feast" theme park. You stay in tiny houses in a desolate windswept fishing village, with nothing to do all day but read ascetic sermons and sing hymns about […]
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December 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
(I shared this on Facebook 10 years ago and the idea just looks better and better) I'm going to move to Denmark and open a "Babette's Feast" theme park. You stay in tiny houses in a desolate windswept fishing village, with nothing to do all day but read ascetic sermons and sing hymns about […]
this looks like good prompting advice, probably even if you're not using OpenAI's apis: https://github.com/allenai/olmocr/blob/main/olmocr/data/buildsilver.py#L32-L39
December 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
this looks like good prompting advice, probably even if you're not using OpenAI's apis: https://github.com/allenai/olmocr/blob/main/olmocr/data/buildsilver.py#L32-L39
What fresh hell is this
Carnegie Mellon has cancelled hosting the Code4Lib conference this year because Code4Lib has scholarships supporting diverse attendees. Some lame fuckery indeed.
Carnegie Mellon deciding at the last minute that they can't host the annual Code4Lib conference is some lame fuckery.
December 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
What fresh hell is this
Trying out LLM Tool https://github.com/antoinelemor/LLM_Tool ("a research-friendly pipeline") - I like the text interface, which exposes the options nicely and saves every configuration choice as you work through the steps to set up LLM-assisted classification of research materials (with local […]
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December 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Trying out LLM Tool https://github.com/antoinelemor/LLM_Tool ("a research-friendly pipeline") - I like the text interface, which exposes the options nicely and saves every configuration choice as you work through the steps to set up LLM-assisted classification of research materials (with local […]
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this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc
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December 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc
How many people named Al are going to have their work attributed to AI, just because the description was set in a sans serif font?
December 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
How many people named Al are going to have their work attributed to AI, just because the description was set in a sans serif font?
We finally got some snow last night, and now we're getting that late-afternoon soft pale pink winter sunshine on the snow, and it's nice, since I worked at home today
November 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
We finally got some snow last night, and now we're getting that late-afternoon soft pale pink winter sunshine on the snow, and it's nice, since I worked at home today