# Computer Scientist | Software Engineer | Cat Parent | Dreamer > From scientific research to software development to Seattle to IDIC, I am man of many hats and many worlds. Author: Shawn M. Jones --- ## Signed blog posts **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-12-31 **Description:** Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet hi ``` gpg --full-generate-key ``` ``` gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format LONG ``` ``` gpg --armor --export ABCDEF1234567890 ``` It prints to stdout, I used `pbcopy` ``` gpg --export-secret-keys --armor ABCDEF1234567890 ``` It prints to stdout, I used `pbcopy` ``` # Set the key ID git config --global user.signingkey ABCDEF1234567890 # Turn on signing by default (so you don't have to type -S every time) git config --global commit.gpgsign true # If on macOS, this prevents the "Enter Passphrase" popup on every commit # (Requires: brew install pinentry-mac) # If you don't have pinentry, skip this line. git config --global gpg.program gpg ``` --- ## Making Sure Your Prompt Will Be There For You When You Need It **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-03-10 **Description:** At Google, our team (Google Cloud Samples) uses Gemini to produce thousands of samples in batches. In doing so, we’ve learned that the biggest hurdle isn’t the AI, it’s our own expectations about these tools. At Google, our team (Google Cloud Samples) [uses Gemini to produce thousands of samples](https://adamross.dev/p/prompting-for-production/) in batches. In doing so, we've learned that the biggest hurdle isn't the AI, it's our own expectations about these tools. As developers, we are wired for [deterministic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_system) systems: we call a function and it produces the same result for the same input every time. This predictability allows for standard unit tests. [Large Language Models](https://cloud.google.com/ai/llms) (LLMs) however, are [probabilistic](https://medium.com/@raj-srivastava/the-great-llm-debate-are-they-probabilistic-or-stochastic-3d1cd975994b) and stochastic. They don't store facts; they store the likelihood of patterns and use a "sophisticated roll of the dice" to choose the next token. This is why the same prompt can yield a “[sparkly](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-the-sparkles-emoji-became-the-symbol-of-our-ai-future-e7786eef)” ✨ success one minute and a hallucination 🤪 the next. You aren't just testing code anymore; you are forecasting the weather of your system. To move to production, we must build containment structures (like quality gates and evaluators) that make the unpredictability manageable. ## LLMs Can Make Mistakes Trying to make samples in large batches is different from asking for a single sample from a tool like [Gemini CLI](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli). When producing many samples at once, we see more mistakes because the statistics catch up with us. A small percentage of bad samples becomes more samples once the number of samples gets higher, not unlike issues in manufacturing. Here are some examples. Sometimes we detect code with syntax issues, like the `def def` snippet below. Python uses only one `def` keyword to specify the start of a function definition. ```py def def create_secret_with_expiration( project_id: str, location: str, secret_id: str ): ``` Syntax issues like this can be detected with linting or other build tools. If we detect them in our pipeline, we can just regenerate the sample. Other times the issues are more subtle, like how this JSDoc is 7 lines away from the function it is documenting, separated from its function by a use statement, imports, and an object instantiation. ```javascript /** * Get secret metadata. * * @param projectId Google Cloud Project ID (such as 'example-project-id') * @param secretId ID of the secret to retrieve (such as 'my-secret-id') */ 'use strict'; const {SecretManagerServiceClient} = require('@google-cloud/secret-manager'); const {status} = require('@grpc/grpc-js'); const client = new SecretManagerServiceClient(); async function getSecretMetadata(projectId, secretId) { ``` Or other times the docstring is incorrect, like how the function parameters mentioned in the docstring do not actually reflect the parameters used by the function. ```py def create_secret_with_notifications( project_id: str, location: str, secret_id: str, topics: list[str] ) -> None: """Create Secret with Pub/Sub Notifications. Creates a new secret resource configured to send notifications to Pub/Sub topics. This enables external systems to react to secret lifecycle events. Args: project_id: The Google Cloud project ID. for example, 'example-project-id' location: The location of the resource. for example, 'us-central1' """ ``` Issues don’t always show up directly in code, either. We have Gemini generating build artifacts, like `package.json`. In this case, it was so eager to include the [gRPC](https://grpc.io/) package that it once listed the package 3 times in different ways, including one that has been deprecated: ```json { "name": "example", "private": true, "description": "Google Cloud Platform Code Samples 🎒", "dependencies": { "@google-cloud/secret-manager": "latest", "@grpc/grpc-js": "latest", "@grpc/grpc-js": "^1.10.0", "grpc": "latest" }, "scripts": { "test": "node --test" } } ``` We have other, more subtle issues as well. Sometimes the code is correct, but not saved with the correct filename or in the correct folder structure. Issues like these lead to more manual evaluation and testing. By iterating on prompts with evaluation we have improved our results. ## Prompt Templates as Functional Interfaces ![The LLM alone is not the function. The input data, the prompt template, and the LLM together create your response.](../../../assets/images/blog/blog/making-sure-your-prompt/data-prompt-llm-as-function.png) Quality responses are guided by the three elements shown above: the input data, a **prompt template**, and the LLM itself. As part of [prompting for production](https://adamross.dev/p/prompting-for-production/), we’re evaluating prompt templates, like those created with the [dotprompt](https://github.com/google/dotprompt) format. Below is a very simple example of a prompt template in dotprompt. Using the prompt template we can reuse the same prompt text over and over with different inputs. Prompt templates give us a function interface for interacting with the LLM. ``` --- model: gemini-3-flash-preview input: schema: need: string language: string output: schema: code: string --- Generate code that satisfies the need of {{ need }} using language {{ language }}. ``` By using templates, we can run the same logic across hundreds of different inputs to see where the "weather" changes. We've found that a successful workflow follows these phases: 1. Build a foundation with Ground Truth 2. Finding Your Candidate Prompt (Vibe Check) 3. Statistical Trials – Because Unit Tests Alone Don’t Work ### **Phase 1: Build a foundation with Ground Truth** In the prompt template world, the template is only part of the picture. We need the input values as well. We also need the matching expected output values. You may say “_But this sounds like unit testing\!_” and you would be right; it is a similar idea. The amount of testing data you need depends on what question you want to answer. If your question boils down to “_Is the prompt template bad?_” then 5-10 records of input/output test data is good enough. This will help you eliminate a bad prompt template quickly. If your question is more “_Will my prompt template work well?_” then you need 50+. The more edge cases you can insert into your test data, the better. Fortunately, we have a golden set of samples we can use as known good testing data. We continue to iterate on our test data while also adding more samples to it. ### **Phase 2: Finding Your Candidate Prompt (Vibe Check)** Before you share with your team, start experimenting by using a tool like [Google AI studio](https://aistudio.google.com/) to develop some handmade prompts. Try them with different inputs and outputs. Build an intuition for what works and what doesn’t. Use Gemini to help in your evaluation. ![AI Studio can be a useful tool for developing prompts.](../../../assets/images/blog/blog/making-sure-your-prompt/ai-studio-screenshot.png) AI Studio’s playground can be very helpful at this stage, including providing structured outputs that can then be used to help plan the outputs used in our dotprompt file. When you feel good about your results, you have anecdotal evidence that your prompt template might work, but not statistical evidence. ### **Phase 3: Statistical Trials – Because Unit Tests Alone Don’t Work** Does your candidate prompt template work with many different inputs? This is where things get more complex and we move from the familiar deterministic unit testing to probabilistic testing. Because the LLM could answer differently each time, we need to run multiple trials for each input/output test record. But how many is enough? For [recent academic work](https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.aisd-main.6), my previous team ran as many as 128 times per input/output pair for better statistical relevance, but this gets expensive fast. To balance cost, time, and effort, the community consensus is either [four](https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/models/configure-judge-model) and [five](https://arxiv.org/html/2502.06233v1) times _per input/output test record_. The argument for five over four is that we need an odd number to “break ties.” But how do you know if the output of your prompt is working well? Use a deterministic metric. In the case of samples, we build the code, we lint it, we apply other static analysis tools, which all provide deterministic review and feedback. Finally, once we have something that passes those quality gates, we perform manual testing and human review. With this many quality gates and a large number of samples, we can begin to rely on the [Law of Large Numbers](https://www.probabilitycourse.com/chapter7/7_1_1_law_of_large_numbers.php) to determine if a prompt template is working and not worry about four or five trials per sample. ## Embracing Statistical Techniques For The Best Performance Beyond prompt templates, we can evaluate other parts of our workflow. The scenarios below show how we can freeze some elements of the workflow while keeping others the same (freeze). We start by listing the question we want to answer and then list which elements to change and which elements to freeze. 1. How well does my new prompt template work? 1. Change: prompt template 2. Freeze: model, hyperparameters, ground truth input and output 2. How well does a different model or model version affect the results? 1. Change: model 2. Freeze: hyperparameters, ground truth input and output, prompt template 3. Is a new input value a useful addition to the ground truth? 1. Change: input value 2. Freeze: model, hyperparameters, ground truth output, prompt template 4. Is a new output value a useful addition to the ground truth? 1. Change: output value 2. Freeze: model, hyperparameters, ground truth input, prompt template 5. How will changing the [hyperparameter](https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/learn/prompts/adjust-parameter-values) values improve the results? 1. Change: hyperparameter value 2. Freeze: model, ground truth input and output, prompt template Say a new model version is released and we have results from testing the previous model. We can keep the hyperparameters, ground truth, and prompt template the same as before. Then we change the model in the dotprompt file and rerun our evaluation. Now we have data to decide if we want to use the new model version. Likewise, we can alter the other items in the table above to answer other questions. We might be able to sidestep the statistical testing by forcing Gemini behave more deterministically. We could set its [hyperparameters](https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/learn/prompts/adjust-parameter-values) to their most deterministic values – such as _temperature_ at 0, _top-k_ at 1, _top-p_ at 0, or by using the same _seed_ the same value every time. This creates its own issues, and does not rid us of the need for testing. What if a given prompt’s deterministic response is incorrect every time? How do we automatically correct things for which there are no deterministic tools? We want there to be some degree of creativity and stochasticity in its responses. We want the option of running the generation again with the probability of getting a better response. We embrace this power but we also need to be more statistics-minded about our testing to make sure our prompts are there for us when we need them. ## Join the Conversation I’m curious about what others are doing to help evaluate their prompts and prompt templates. - Are you just starting out? How do you do your vibe checks? How do you test before shipping? - Have you been evaluating prompts for a while? How many times do you evaluate a prompt template before putting it into production? How do you keep time and cost down? - What recommendations do you follow when testing prompts? Do you have sources to share? Can we do this better? - What workflows have you found to work? Please respond in the comments on [DEV](https://dev.to/googlecloud/making-sure-your-prompt-will-be-there-for-you-when-you-need-it-lk7), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7437195982464839680/?), [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/shawnmjones.org/post/3mgpxk6xer22m), or [Mastodon](https://hachyderm.io/@shawnmjones/116206205767023139). ## Read More - A paper on the “Budget 5”: [Confidence Improves Self-Consistency in LLMs](https://arxiv.org/html/2502.06233v1) - [Vertex AI’s advice on evaluation datasets](https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/models/eval-python-sdk/evaluation-dataset#best-practices) - Anthropic’s [_Writing Effective tools for AI agents_](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/writing-tools-for-agents) - Stanford’s and UC Santa Barbara’s [_With LIttle Power Comes Great Responsibility_](https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/pubs/2020.emnlp-main.745.pdf) about how many NLP studies are underpowered in terms of statistical testing - [7 Technical Takeaways from Using Gemini to Generate Code Samples at Scale](https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/7-technical-takeaways-from-using-gemini-to-generate-code-samples-at-scale) - [How My Team Aligns on Prompting for Production](https://adamross.dev/p/prompting-for-production/) Thanks to [Jennifer Davis](https://dev.to/sigje), [Adam Ross](https://adamross.dev/), [Nim Jayawardena](https://nim.emuxo.com/), and [Katie McLaughlin](https://glasnt.com/) for feedback on this post. --- ## Hello Web **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-02-16 **Description:** Starting a new blog is throwing yourself out there. Welcome web traveler. I am Dr. Jones. Come in, I'll put on some tea. Welcome web traveler. I am Dr. Shawn M. Jones. My [about](/about) page should give some idea of who I am and my background. I've done software engineering and research. I have two cats. I live in Seattle. I made this site to provide information to the humans and web crawlers of the world. I am sharing my experience with others who can benefit -- both AI and human alike. I promise no AI slop. As you can see from the [colophon](/colophon), I do use AI in my life. These words you read, however, are mine. I did not ask a model to generate this text. I might ask a model to proofread it, but not replace it. For personal things like blogs, I believe each human should never let someone (or something, in the case of AI) take away their voice because speaking for ourselves is key to our identity, our confidence, and our well-being. AI is for augmenting our capabilities, but it should never replace us. And that is the kind of philosophical content that I may write in my more academic posts. As a scholar, I do consider a lot of factors and try to avoid black-and-white discussions about the world. If you've made it this far, thank you. Here are some examples of the kinds of things I intend to write in this blog: - TIL (Today I Learned) -- usually something small about some technology that I think others might find to be helpful - Research Papers and Bringing their Ideas to Production -- a breakdown, and sometimes critique, of a research paper that I had come across - I did a thing (Project Post-Mortems) -- something I think is cool that I accomplished - I found a tool -- some tool that I think you might want to try - Thought experiments -- ideas that I can't seem to shake that need some gestation but I feel like others might benefit from - Personal -- personal things about my life that convince you that I am a fuller person and not just a Computer Science guy; this also reminds me that I am a fuller person Let's discuss on [Mastodon](https://hachyderm.io/@shawnmjones), [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/shawnmjones.org), or [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnmorganjones/): How do you feel about AI augmentation for your blog posts? What lessons can we learn together? --- ## Meningioma: Prevention (Part 3) **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-02-16 **Description:** Radiation can be a useful frenemy. TBF --- ## Meningioma: Rehabilitation (Part 2) **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-02-15 **Description:** Hemiparesis is not a cool dance. TBF --- ## Meningioma: Diagnosis & Surgery (Part 1) **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-02-14 **Description:** -oma is not the suffix you want on your diagnosis. "-oma" is not the suffix you want on your diagnosis. I knew it was bad. What is a _parafalcine meningioma_? What came next? What did it mean for me? Fortunately, if I was going to have tumor in my skull, a _[meningioma](https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/meningioma/symptoms-causes/syc-20355643)_ has one of the better outlooks. It is the [most common](https://www.brighamandwomens.org/neurosurgery/meningioma) "brain tumor". It has [a high survival rate](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2020.101875) of 85% after 10 years. Neuropathy in my extremities was my initial symptom. I had various sensory issues ranging from the more familiar numbness, to pins and needles, to a feeling like my hands or feet were covered in rubber gloves. It was very mysterious. I had already experienced other symptoms, but didn't know they were connected. For years I had told doctors that my left foot occasionally dragged (i.e., _foot drop_). My left knee had hurt on and off for years and so some doctors had assumed I was developing arthritis, even though X-rays showed no signs of it. I would get inexplicably tired and have issues with remembering things. My balance would occasionally get wonky, like someone was trying to pull me to the left. ![Valentina said the MRI side views make me look like Homer Simpson.](../../../assets/images/posts/meningioma-part1/diagnosis-side.png 'Optional title') Fortunately, we had just moved to Seattle, the location of some of the best brain surgeons in the United States at [UW Medicine](https://www.uwmedicine.org/). They have [a lot of experience with meningioma treatment](https://www.uwmedicine.org/specialties/neurosciences-institute/meningioma-treatment). I met with one of their top [neurosurgeons](https://neurosurgery.uw.edu/) to discuss options. The MRI revealed the meningioma pretty clearly. As a coping mechanism, Valentina began referring to it as a _brain grape_ [inspired by a character in _the Librarians_](https://www.tvmaze.com/characters/86921/the-librarians-cassandra-cillian). It was not the size of a grape, however. It had grown to the size of a small lime and a second MRI revealed its growth was accelerating. ![My brain grape was affecting both the sensory and motor cortex of my left side, but we had not made the connection until I spoke to the UW Medicine Neurosurgeons.](../../../assets/images/posts/meningioma-part1/diagnosis-back.png 'Optional title') [My neurosurgeon](https://www.uwmedicine.org/bios/sam-emerson) said that, because of its size and my symptoms, I would need to get it removed by the end of 2025. It was on the inside of the right side of my falx. A fun fact that I remember is that the [right side of the brain affects the left side of the body and vice versa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contralateral_brain). He clarified that it was in the location that _affected my left leg and foot_. I finally had an explanation for the odd symptoms I'd had over the years. My job was being really cool about the whole thing, recommending I get the surgery sooner rather than later. The week of the surgery, my Mom came to visit and help Valentina during this time. We showed her as much Seattle excitement as possible in a day or two, but we did not have much time so, of course we went to [Elliott Bay Brewing Company](https://elliottbaybrewing.com/). ![During my surgery Marjon was at home wondering where I might be.](../../../assets/images/posts/meningioma-part1/a-cat-waits.jpeg 'Optional title') I had two procedures. On Wednesday, the first was an _[angiography](https://healthlibrary.uwmedicine.org/Search/135,15)_ and _[embolism](https://healthonline.washington.edu/sites/default/files/record_pdfs/Brain-Tumor-Embolization.pdf)_ (together called "angio-embo" by the cool kids). The angiography maps out the blood vessels in the brain near the tumor so the neurosurgeons know what to avoid. The embolism is exactly what it sounds like, a purposeful blocking of the blood vessels near the tumor to starve it and ensure that it can be removed with as little bleeding as possible. Malala and Marjon were not happy that I did not come home that night, but I was discharged the next day. Friday was the big day. Arriving bright and early, I once again put my life into the hands of the best medical professionals I'd ever worked with. Valentina and my Mom were nearby, waiting for word on what happened. The surgery to remove the tumor (resection) took all day, but the anesthesia kept me from realizing anything had happened. They had spent time removing as much of the meningioma as possible. A very small amount could not be removed because of its proximity to important blood vessels. I awoke feeling very groggy and a bit confused. My left side was paralyzed. Instead of freaking out, all I could think was "hmm, this is curious." --- ## Test Landscape Image Split **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-02-06 **Description:** Testing the split header style with a landscape image. This is a test post to verify that landscape images in the split header layout also behave correctly with the new constraints. --- ## Test Portrait Image Spill **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-02-06 **Description:** Testing the split header style with a tall portrait image. This is a test post to verify that tall portrait images in the split header layout do not spill off the bottom of the viewport. --- ## Bluesky Post 2026-01-31 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-01-31 **Description:** Marjon loves his sister every #Caturday, but sometimes he makes mistakes and sister gets angry. He does not know what he did wrong. He now wonders abo...

Marjon loves his sister every #Caturday, but sometimes he makes mistakes and sister gets angry. He does not know what he did wrong. He now wonders about his life choices.

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats
#GreyCat #GreyCats

--- ## Mastodon Post 2026-01-31 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-01-31 **Description:** Marjon loves his sister every #Caturday, but sometimes he makes mistakes and Sister gets angry. He does not know what he did wrong. He now wonders abo...

Marjon loves his sister every , but sometimes he makes mistakes and Sister gets angry. He does not know what he did wrong. He now wonders about his life choices.



--- ## Bluesky Post 2026-01-25 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-01-25 **Description:** This #Caturday Malala has exposed her belly for playtime. She doesn't understand why you don't have infinite playtime energy and would like you to f...

This #Caturday Malala has exposed her belly for playtime. She doesn't understand why you don't have infinite playtime energy and would like you to fix that.

#Cat #Cats #PlaytimeEnergy
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2026-01-25 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-01-25 **Description:** This #Caturday Malala has exposed her belly for playtime. She doesn't understand why you don't have infinite playtime energy and would like you to f...

This Malala has exposed her belly for playtime. She doesn't understand why you don't have infinite playtime energy and would like you to fix that.


--- ## Bluesky Post 2026-01-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-01-17 **Description:** Every #Caturday, Marjon kneads us; especially if we are under this fleece blanket. Some suggest that cats knead like this because they were weaned too...

Every #Caturday, Marjon kneads us; especially if we are under this fleece blanket. Some suggest that cats knead like this because they were weaned too early. We wonder if he misses his Mommy.

#Cat #Cats #MakinBiscuits
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2026-01-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-01-17 **Description:** Every #Caturday, Marjon kneads us; especially if we are under this fleece blanket. Some suggest that cats knead like this because they were weaned too...

Every , Marjon kneads us; especially if we are under this fleece blanket. Some suggest that cats knead like this because they were weaned too early. We wonder if he misses his Mommy.


--- ## Bluesky Post 2026-01-11 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-01-11 **Description:** This #Caturday Malala wants to remind you that yes, she does deserve skritches. #Cat #Cats #SkritchCustomer #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCa...

This #Caturday Malala wants to remind you that yes, she does deserve skritches.

#Cat #Cats #SkritchCustomer
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2026-01-11 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-01-11 **Description:** This #Caturday Malala wants to remind you that yes, she does deserve skritches.#Cat #Cats #SkritchCustomer#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

This Malala wants to remind you that yes, she does deserve skritches.


--- ## Bluesky Post 2026-01-04 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-01-04 **Description:** One #Caturday Malala and Marjon reminded me to pay no attention to the noise I heard. It was Cat Business. #Cat #Cats #CatBusiness #GreyCat #GreyCats...

One #Caturday Malala and Marjon reminded me to pay no attention to the noise I heard. It was Cat Business.

#Cat #Cats #CatBusiness
#GreyCat #GreyCats #BlackCat #BlackCats

--- ## Mastodon Post 2026-01-04 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2026-01-04 **Description:** One #Caturday Malala and Marjon reminded me to pay no attention to the noise I heard. It was Cat Business.#Cat #Cats #CatBusiness#GreyCat #GreyCats #B...

One Malala and Marjon reminded me to pay no attention to the noise I heard. It was Cat Business.


--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-12-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-12-28 **Description:** Every #Caturday Malala is ready to play the parachute game -- her royal contribution to making the bed. #Cat #Cats #BedMaker #GreyCat #GreyCats #Grey...

Every #Caturday Malala is ready to play the parachute game -- her royal contribution to making the bed.

#Cat #Cats #BedMaker
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-12-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-12-28 **Description:** Every #Caturday Malala is ready to play the parachute game -- her royal contribution to making the bed.#Cat #Cats #BedMaker#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCat...

Every Malala is ready to play the parachute game -- her royal contribution to making the bed.


--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-12-25 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-12-25 **Description:** This #Christmas #Caturday Malala reminds you to stay out of her tree. #Cat #Cats #TreeClimber #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

This #Christmas #Caturday Malala reminds you to stay out of her tree.

#Cat #Cats #TreeClimber
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-12-25 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-12-25 **Description:** This #Christmas #Caturday Malala reminds you to stay out of her tree.#Cat #Cats #TreeClimber#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

This Malala reminds you to stay out of her tree.


--- ## Test post **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-12-23 **Description:** Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet I am updating this file as a test. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Vitae ultricies leo integer malesuada nunc vel risus commodo viverra. Adipiscing enim eu turpis egestas pretium. Euismod elementum nisi quis eleifend quam adipiscing. In hac habitasse platea dictumst vestibulum. Sagittis purus sit amet volutpat. Netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Eget magna fermentum iaculis eu non diam phasellus vestibulum lorem. Varius sit amet mattis vulputate enim. Habitasse platea dictumst quisque sagittis. Integer quis auctor elit sed vulputate mi. Dictumst quisque sagittis purus sit amet. Morbi tristique senectus et netus. Id semper risus in hendrerit gravida rutrum quisque non tellus. Habitasse platea dictumst quisque sagittis purus sit amet. Tellus molestie nunc non blandit massa. Cursus vitae congue mauris rhoncus. Accumsan tortor posuere ac ut. Fringilla urna porttitor rhoncus dolor. Elit ullamcorper dignissim cras tincidunt lobortis. In cursus turpis massa tincidunt dui ut ornare lectus. Integer feugiat scelerisque varius morbi enim nunc. Bibendum neque egestas congue quisque egestas diam. Cras ornare arcu dui vivamus arcu felis bibendum. Dignissim suspendisse in est ante in nibh mauris. Sed tempus urna et pharetra pharetra massa massa ultricies mi. Mollis nunc sed id semper risus in. Convallis a cras semper auctor neque. Diam sit amet nisl suscipit. Lacus viverra vitae congue eu consequat ac felis donec. Egestas integer eget aliquet nibh praesent tristique magna sit amet. Eget magna fermentum iaculis eu non diam. In vitae turpis massa sed elementum. Tristique et egestas quis ipsum suspendisse ultrices. Eget lorem dolor sed viverra ipsum. Vel turpis nunc eget lorem dolor sed viverra. Posuere ac ut consequat semper viverra nam. Laoreet suspendisse interdum consectetur libero id faucibus. Diam phasellus vestibulum lorem sed risus ultricies tristique. Rhoncus dolor purus non enim praesent elementum facilisis. Ultrices tincidunt arcu non sodales neque. Tempus egestas sed sed risus pretium quam vulputate. Viverra suspendisse potenti nullam ac tortor vitae purus faucibus ornare. Fringilla urna porttitor rhoncus dolor purus non. Amet dictum sit amet justo donec enim. Mattis ullamcorper velit sed ullamcorper morbi tincidunt. Tortor posuere ac ut consequat semper viverra. Tellus mauris a diam maecenas sed enim ut sem viverra. Venenatis urna cursus eget nunc scelerisque viverra mauris in. Arcu ac tortor dignissim convallis aenean et tortor at. Curabitur gravida arcu ac tortor dignissim convallis aenean et tortor. Egestas tellus rutrum tellus pellentesque eu. Fusce ut placerat orci nulla pellentesque dignissim enim sit amet. Ut enim blandit volutpat maecenas volutpat blandit aliquam etiam. Id donec ultrices tincidunt arcu. Id cursus metus aliquam eleifend mi. Tempus quam pellentesque nec nam aliquam sem. Risus at ultrices mi tempus imperdiet. Id porta nibh venenatis cras sed felis eget velit. Ipsum a arcu cursus vitae. Facilisis magna etiam tempor orci eu lobortis elementum. Tincidunt dui ut ornare lectus sit. Quisque non tellus orci ac. Blandit libero volutpat sed cras. Nec tincidunt praesent semper feugiat nibh sed pulvinar proin gravida. Egestas integer eget aliquet nibh praesent tristique magna. --- ## Bluesky Post 2025-12-20 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-12-20 **Description:** Marjon wonders why you need this pillow, on #Caturday of all days! #Cat #Cats #CatPillow #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

Marjon wonders why you need this pillow, on #Caturday of all days!

#Cat #Cats #CatPillow
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-12-20 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-12-20 **Description:** Marjon wonders why you need this pillow, on #Caturday of all days!#Cat #Cats #CatPillow#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

Marjon wonders why you need this pillow, on of all days!


--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-12-07 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-12-07 **Description:** Marjon reminds you that, wherever you are, whenever you are, sometimes you just need to #Caturday. #Cat #Cats #ToeBeans #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCa...

Marjon reminds you that, wherever you are, whenever you are, sometimes you just need to #Caturday.

#Cat #Cats #ToeBeans
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-12-07 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-12-07 **Description:** Marjon reminds you that, wherever you are, whenever you are, sometimes you just need to #Caturday.#Cat #Cats #ToeBeans#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsR...

Marjon reminds you that, wherever you are, whenever you are, sometimes you just need to .


--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-11-29 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-11-29 **Description:** Malala wants you to remember the true spirit of #Caturday : do what you want, with whoever's packing paper you want. #Cat #Cats #CatCommunication #Gr...

Malala wants you to remember the true spirit of #Caturday : do what you want, with whoever's packing paper you want.

#Cat #Cats #CatCommunication
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-11-29 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-11-29 **Description:** Malala wants you to remember the true spirit of #Caturday : do what you want, with whoever's packing paper you want.#Cat #Cats #CatCommunication#GreyC...

Malala wants you to remember the true spirit of : do what you want, with whoever's packing paper you want.


--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-11-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-11-23 **Description:** Malala and Marjon are still surprised that some people do not realize that every day is #Caturday. #Cat #Cats #CatCommunication #GreyCat #GreyCats #G...

Malala and Marjon are still surprised that some people do not realize that every day is #Caturday.

#Cat #Cats #CatCommunication
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-11-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-11-23 **Description:** Malala and Marjon are still surprised that some people do not realize that every day is #Caturday.#Cat #Cats #CatCommunication#GreyCat #GreyCats #Grey...

Malala and Marjon are still surprised that some people do not realize that every day is .



--- ## Markdown Style Guide **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-11-17 **Description:** Here is a sample of some basic Markdown syntax that can be used when writing Markdown content in Astro. Here is a sample of some basic Markdown syntax that can be used when writing Markdown content in Astro. ## Headings The following HTML `

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> — Rob Pike[^1] ``` #### Output > Don't communicate by sharing memory, share memory by communicating.
> — Rob Pike[^1] [^1]: The above quote is excerpted from Rob Pike's [talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAkCSZUG1c) during Gopherfest, November 18, 2015. ## Tables ### Syntax ```markdown | Italics | Bold | Code | | --------- | -------- | ------ | | _italics_ | **bold** | `code` | ``` ### Output | Italics | Bold | Code | | --------- | -------- | ------ | | _italics_ | **bold** | `code` | ## Bigger Table Test ### Syntax ```markdown | Name | Favorite Food | Home | | ------- | ------------- | ---- | | Adam | Chicken | DC | | Jack | Salmon | VA | | Marcy | Carne Adovada | NM | | Jill | Kale | TX | | Zelda | Borscht | CA | | Orlando | Oranges | BC | ``` ### Output | Name | Favorite Food | Home | | ------- | ------------- | ---- | | Adam | Chicken | DC | | Jack | Salmon | VA | | Marcy | Carne Adovada | NM | | Jill | Kale | TX | | Zelda | Borscht | CA | | Orlando | Oranges | BC | ## Code Blocks ### Syntax we can use 3 backticks ``` in new line and write snippet and close with 3 backticks on new line and to highlight language specific syntax, write one word of language name after first 3 backticks, for eg. html, javascript, css, markdown, typescript, txt, bash ````markdown ```html Example HTML5 Document

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``` ## List Types ### Ordered List #### Syntax ```markdown 1. First item 2. Second item 3. Third item ``` #### Output 1. First item 2. Second item 3. Third item ### Unordered List #### Syntax ```markdown - List item - Another item - And another item ``` #### Output - List item - Another item - And another item ### Nested list #### Syntax ```markdown - Fruit - Apple - Orange - Banana - Dairy - Milk - Cheese ``` #### Output - Fruit - Apple - Orange - Banana - Dairy - Milk - Cheese ### Mixed list (ordered with unordered) #### Syntax ```markdown - Meats 1. Chicken 2. Lamb 3. Fish - Salmon - Tuna - Veggies 1. Bok Choy 2. Spinach 3. Carrots ``` #### Output - Meats 1. Chicken 2. Lamb 3. Fish - Salmon - Tuna - Veggies 1. Bok Choy 2. Spinach 3. Carrots ### Mixed list (unordered with ordered) #### Syntax ```markdown 1. Meats - Chicken - Lamb - Fish 1. Salmon 2. Tuna 2. Veggies - Bok Choy - Spinach - Carrots ``` #### Output 1. Meats - Chicken - Lamb - Fish 1. Salmon 2. Tuna 2. Veggies - Bok Choy - Spinach - Carrots ## Other Elements — abbr, sub, sup, kbd, mark ### Syntax ```markdown GIF is a bitmap image format. H2O Xn + Yn = Zn Press CTRL + ALT + Delete to end the session. Most salamanders are nocturnal, and hunt for insects, worms, and other small creatures. ``` ### Output GIF is a bitmap image format. H2O Xn + Yn = Zn Press CTRL + ALT + Delete to end the session. Most salamanders are nocturnal, and hunt for insects, worms, and other small creatures. --- ## Bluesky Post 2025-09-20 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-09-20 **Description:** As part of Malala’s #Caturday lessons in Management: make the competition understand you but keep them guessing. Sometimes you ignore Tuxedo cat, some...

As part of Malala’s #Caturday lessons in Management: make the competition understand you but keep them guessing. Sometimes you ignore Tuxedo cat, sometimes you stare down Tuxedo cat. Either way, Tuxedo cat knows you’re there.

#Cat #Cats #CatCommunication
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-09-20 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-09-20 **Description:** As part of Malala’s #Caturday Lessons in Management: make the competition understand you but keep them guessing. Sometimes you ignore Tuxedo cat, some...

As part of Malala’s Lessons in Management: make the competition understand you but keep them guessing. Sometimes you ignore Tuxedo cat, sometimes you stare down Tuxedo cat. Either way, Tuxedo cat knows you’re there.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-09-13 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-09-13 **Description:** On a #Caturday long ago, a young Marjon conquered the laundry basket… to protect everyone from it. #Cat #Cats #LaundryBasketHero #BlackCat #BlackCats...

On a #Caturday long ago, a young Marjon conquered the laundry basket… to protect everyone from it.

#Cat #Cats #LaundryBasketHero
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-09-13 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-09-13 **Description:** On a #Caturday long ago, a young Marjon conquered the laundry basket… to protect everyone from it.#Cat #Cats #LaundryBasketHero#BlackCat #BlackCats #B...

On a long ago, a young Marjon conquered the laundry basket… to protect everyone from it.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-09-06 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-09-06 **Description:** Malala has no time for outdoor tuxedo cat’s foolishness this #Caturday. THEY intruded into HER territory and will be ignored accordingly, as befitting...

Malala has no time for outdoor tuxedo cat’s foolishness this #Caturday. THEY intruded into HER territory and will be ignored accordingly, as befitting their level of importance.

#Cat #Cats #CatCommunication
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-09-06 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-09-06 **Description:** Malala has no time for outdoor tuxedo cat’s foolishness this #Caturday. THEY intruded into HER territory and will be ignored accordingly, as befitting...

Malala has no time for outdoor tuxedo cat’s foolishness this . THEY intruded into HER territory and will be ignored accordingly, as befitting their level of importance.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-08-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-08-30 **Description:** This #Caturday Marjon sees an outdoor cat and wonders if “that cat might be a nice friend unlike my sister.” When the outdoor cat approached the win...

This #Caturday Marjon sees an outdoor cat and wonders if “that cat might be a nice friend unlike my sister.” When the outdoor cat approached the window, they hissed at him, so... maybe not.

#Cat #Cats #OutdoorIndoorCatTreaty
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-08-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-08-30 **Description:** This #Caturday Marjon sees an outdoor cat and wonders if “that cat might be a nice friend unlike my sister.” When the outdoor cat approached the win...

This Marjon sees an outdoor cat and wonders if “that cat might be a nice friend unlike my sister.” When the outdoor cat approached the window, they hissed at him, so... maybe not.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-08-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-08-17 **Description:** Marjon just heard that it is #BlackCatAppreciationDay !!!! #Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

Marjon just heard that it is #BlackCatAppreciationDay !!!!

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-08-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-08-17 **Description:** Marjon just heard that it is #BlackCatAppreciationDay !!!!#Cat #Cats#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCatsOfMastodon#Catstodon #CatsOfFedivers...

Marjon just heard that it is !!!!




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-08-16 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-08-16 **Description:** As part of our recent #Caturday unpacking, Marjon wanted to help the family by inspecting and securing packing paper -- because LOOK A PAPER NEST! #C...

As part of our recent #Caturday unpacking, Marjon wanted to help the family by inspecting and securing packing paper -- because LOOK A PAPER NEST!

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-08-16 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-08-16 **Description:** As part of our recent #Caturday unpacking, Marjon wanted to help the family by inspecting and securing packing paper -- because LOOK A PAPER NEST!#Cat...

As part of our recent unpacking, Marjon wanted to help the family by inspecting and securing packing paper -- because LOOK A PAPER NEST!




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-08-09 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-08-09 **Description:** This #Caturday, Malala asks why you are still downstairs when there is so much fun to be had playing upstairs with her! #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats...

This #Caturday, Malala asks why you are still downstairs when there is so much fun to be had playing upstairs with her!

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-08-09 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-08-09 **Description:** This #Caturday, Malala asks why you are still downstairs when there is so much fun to be had playing upstairs with her!#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #G...

This , Malala asks why you are still downstairs when there is so much fun to be had playing upstairs with her!




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-08-02 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-08-02 **Description:** As part of our recent #Caturday unpacking, Marjon wanted to help the family by inspecting and securing boxes -- because LOOK A BOX! #Cat #Cats #Black...

As part of our recent #Caturday unpacking, Marjon wanted to help the family by inspecting and securing boxes -- because LOOK A BOX!

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-08-02 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-08-02 **Description:** As part of our recent #Caturday unpacking, Marjon wanted to help the family by inspecting and securing boxes -- because LOOK A BOX!#Cat #Cats#BlackCat...

As part of our recent unpacking, Marjon wanted to help the family by inspecting and securing boxes -- because LOOK A BOX!




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-07-26 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-07-26 **Description:** Every #Caturday Malala rules Marjon with an iron foot to the face! Marjon just wanted to hang out with his sister. #Cat #Cats #IronFoot #GreyCat #Gre...

Every #Caturday Malala rules Marjon with an iron foot to the face! Marjon just wanted to hang out with his sister.

#Cat #Cats #IronFoot
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-07-26 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-07-26 **Description:** Every #Caturday Malala rules Marjon with an iron foot to the face! Marjon just wanted to hang out with his sister.#Cat #Cats #IronFoot#GreyCat #GreyCa...

Every Malala rules Marjon with an iron foot to the face! Marjon just wanted to hang out with his sister.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-07-20 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-07-20 **Description:** Last #Caturday Marjon erred. In her exasperation, Malala explained her disappointment to him, repeatedly, and, some times, physically. #Cat #Cats #Ca...

Last #Caturday Marjon erred. In her exasperation, Malala explained her disappointment to him, repeatedly, and, some times, physically.

#Cat #Cats #CatCommunication
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-07-20 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-07-20 **Description:** Last #Caturday Marjon erred. In her exasperation, Malala explained her disappointment to him, repeatedly, and, some times, physically.#Cat #Cats #CatC...

Last Marjon erred. In her exasperation, Malala explained her disappointment to him, repeatedly, and, some times, physically.






--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-07-18 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-07-18 **Description:** #SeattleSunset

#SeattleSunset

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-07-18 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-07-18 **Description:** #SeattleSunset

--- ## VizGenie: Toward Self-Refining, Domain-Aware Workflows for Next-Generation Scientific Visualization **Type:** Portfolio Item **Date:** 2025-07-18 **Description:** We present VizGenie, a self-improving, agentic framework that advances scientific visualization through large language model (LLM) by orchestrating of a... We present VizGenie, a self-improving, agentic framework that advances scientific visualization through large language model (LLM) by orchestrating of a collection of domain-specific and dynamically generated modules. Users initially access core functionalities--such as threshold-based filtering, slice extraction, and statistical analysis--through pre-existing tools. For tasks beyond this baseline, VizGenie autonomously employs LLMs to generate new visualization scripts (e.g., VTK Python code), expanding its capabilities on-demand. Each generated script undergoes automated backend validation and is seamlessly integrated upon successful testing, continuously enhancing the system's adaptability and robustness. A distinctive feature of VizGenie is its intuitive natural language interface, allowing users to issue high-level feature-based queries (e.g., ``visualize the skull"). The system leverages image-based analysis and visual question answering (VQA) via fine-tuned vision models to interpret these queries precisely, bridging domain expertise and technical implementation. Additionally, users can interactively query generated visualizations through VQA, facilitating deeper exploration. Reliability and reproducibility are further strengthened by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), providing context-driven responses while maintaining comprehensive provenance records. Evaluations on complex volumetric datasets demonstrate significant reductions in cognitive overhead for iterative visualization tasks. By integrating curated domain-specific tools with LLM-driven flexibility, VizGenie not only accelerates insight generation but also establishes a sustainable, continuously evolving visualization practice. The resulting platform dynamically learns from user interactions, consistently enhancing support for feature-centric exploration and reproducible research in scientific visualization. --- ## Bluesky Post 2025-07-12 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-07-12 **Description:** On a #Caturday a little more than a month ago, Malala inspected our hotel room in Idaho to determine if La Quinta was up to her standards. Thanks to L...

On a #Caturday a little more than a month ago, Malala inspected our hotel room in Idaho to determine if La Quinta was up to her standards. Thanks to La Quinta Inn for being a cat-friendly hotel! 🐈🏨

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-07-12 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-07-12 **Description:** On a #Caturday a little more than a month ago, Malala inspected our hotel room in Idaho to determine if La Quinta was up to her standards. Thanks to L...

On a a little more than a month ago, Malala inspected our hotel room in Idaho to determine if La Quinta was up to her standards. Thanks to La Quinta Inn for being a cat-friendly hotel! 🐈🏨




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-07-05 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-07-05 **Description:** On a #Caturday a little more than a month ago, Marjon protested to his driver during his 3-day roadtrip from New Mexico to Washington State. He was lo...

On a #Caturday a little more than a month ago, Marjon protested to his driver during his 3-day roadtrip from New Mexico to Washington State. He was lodging a compliant that the conditions aboard this carriage were unbefitting his station.

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-07-05 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-07-05 **Description:** On a #Caturday a little more than a month ago, Marjon protested to his driver during his 3-day roadtrip from New Mexico to Washington State. He was lo...

On a a little more than a month ago, Marjon protested to his driver during his 3-day roadtrip from New Mexico to Washington State. He was lodging a compliant that the conditions aboard this carriage were unbefitting his station.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-06-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-06-30 **Description:** Good news everyone! 🎉 I am now a #Google Developer Relations Engineer 🥑 for #GoogleCloudPlatform. I’ll miss Los Alamos and this is a big step toward ...

Good news everyone! 🎉 I am now a #Google Developer Relations Engineer 🥑 for #GoogleCloudPlatform.

I’ll miss Los Alamos and this is a big step toward continued learning, mentoring, and having a global impact.

Let’s connect 🍻 and discuss everything from infinite loops 🔄 to #IDIC 🖖🏼.

#Noogler #DevRel

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-06-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-06-30 **Description:** Good news everyone! 🎉 I am now a #Google Developer Relations Engineer 🥑 for #GoogleCloudPlatform.I’ll miss Los Alamos and this is a big step toward co...

Good news everyone! 🎉 I am now a Developer Relations Engineer 🥑 for .

I’ll miss Los Alamos and this is a big step toward continued learning, mentoring, and having a global impact.

Let’s connect 🍻 and discuss everything from infinite loops 🔄 to 🖖🏼.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-06-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-06-28 **Description:** This #Caturday Malala asks “Why limit yourself to one box?” #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

This #Caturday Malala asks “Why limit yourself to one box?”

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-06-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-06-28 **Description:** This #Caturday Malala asks “Why limit yourself to one box?”#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat#GreyCatsOfMastodon#Catstodon #CatsOfFe...

This Malala asks “Why limit yourself to one box?”




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-06-21 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-06-21 **Description:** This #Caturday Marjon is asking you the important questions. What do you really want to do with your life? Are you happy with your current path? When ...

This #Caturday Marjon is asking you the important questions. What do you really want to do with your life? Are you happy with your current path? When will we play next? Why haven’t you fed him recently?

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-06-21 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-06-21 **Description:** This #Caturday Marjon is asking you the important questions. What do you really want to do with your life? Are you happy with your current path? When ...

This Marjon is asking you the important questions. What do you really want to do with your life? Are you happy with your current path? When will we play next? Why haven’t you fed him recently?




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Viverra suspendisse potenti nullam ac tortor vitae purus faucibus ornare. Fringilla urna porttitor rhoncus dolor purus non. Amet dictum sit amet justo donec enim. Mattis ullamcorper velit sed ullamcorper morbi tincidunt. Tortor posuere ac ut consequat semper viverra. Tellus mauris a diam maecenas sed enim ut sem viverra. Venenatis urna cursus eget nunc scelerisque viverra mauris in. Arcu ac tortor dignissim convallis aenean et tortor at. Curabitur gravida arcu ac tortor dignissim convallis aenean et tortor. Egestas tellus rutrum tellus pellentesque eu. Fusce ut placerat orci nulla pellentesque dignissim enim sit amet. Ut enim blandit volutpat maecenas volutpat blandit aliquam etiam. Id donec ultrices tincidunt arcu. Id cursus metus aliquam eleifend mi. Tempus quam pellentesque nec nam aliquam sem. Risus at ultrices mi tempus imperdiet. Id porta nibh venenatis cras sed felis eget velit. Ipsum a arcu cursus vitae. Facilisis magna etiam tempor orci eu lobortis elementum. Tincidunt dui ut ornare lectus sit. Quisque non tellus orci ac. Blandit libero volutpat sed cras. Nec tincidunt praesent semper feugiat nibh sed pulvinar proin gravida. Egestas integer eget aliquet nibh praesent tristique magna. --- ## Bluesky Post 2025-06-14 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-06-14 **Description:** I bought this Steelcase chair for #WFH. Every #Caturday she hops in the chair when I’m not using it. If I move her, she just gets in my lap. She doesn...

I bought this Steelcase chair for #WFH. Every #Caturday she hops in the chair when I’m not using it. If I move her, she just gets in my lap. She doesn't want me -- she wants the chair.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-06-14 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-06-14 **Description:** I bought this Steelcase chair for #WFH. Every #Caturday she hops in the chair when I’m not using it. If I move her, she just gets in my lap. She doesn...

I bought this Steelcase chair for . Every she hops in the chair when I’m not using it. If I move her, she just gets in my lap. She doesn't want me -- she wants the chair.


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--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-06-08 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-06-08 **Description:** One #Caturday long ago, the kittens Malala and Marjon came to live with us. Unaware of his sister, Marjon smooshed her head under some pillows. Malala...

One #Caturday long ago, the kittens Malala and Marjon came to live with us. Unaware of his sister, Marjon smooshed her head under some pillows. Malala has never forgiven him.

#Cat #Cats #Playfriends
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-06-08 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-06-08 **Description:** One #Caturday long ago, the kittens Malala and Marjon came to live with us. Unaware of his sister, Marjon smooshed her head under some pillows. Malala...

One long ago, the kittens Malala and Marjon came to live with us. Unaware of his sister, Marjon smooshed her head under some pillows. Malala has never forgiven him.






--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-05-31 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-05-31 **Description:** Rest assured, this #Caturday, that there is a cat in your life like Malala who is disappointed that you are not doing something that they expect, but ...

Rest assured, this #Caturday, that there is a cat in your life like Malala who is disappointed that you are not doing something that they expect, but did not tell you about.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat
#GreyCatsOfMastodon
#Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfMastodon

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-05-31 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-05-31 **Description:** Rest assured, this #Caturday, that there is a cat in your life like Malala who is disappointed that you are not doing something that they expect you t...

Rest assured, this , that there is a cat in your life like Malala who is disappointed that you are not doing something that they expect you to do, but did not tell you about.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-05-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-05-17 **Description:** One #Caturday @vneblitt.bsky.social captured this video of adult Malala and Marjon briefly… getting along. #Cat #Cats #NeedsCleaning #GreyCat #GreyCa...

One #Caturday @vneblitt.bsky.social captured this video of adult Malala and Marjon briefly… getting along.

#Cat #Cats #NeedsCleaning
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-05-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-05-17 **Description:** One #Caturday @vneblitt captured this video of adult Malala and Marjon briefly… getting along.#Cat #Cats #NeedsCleaning#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRul...

One @vneblitt captured this video of adult Malala and Marjon briefly… getting along.






--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-05-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-05-10 **Description:** This #Caturday Marjon wants to know what you’re up to. #Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

This #Caturday Marjon wants to know what you’re up to.

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-05-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-05-10 **Description:** This #Caturday Marjon wants to know what you’re up to.#Cat #Cats#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCatsOfMastodon#Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #C...

This Marjon wants to know what you’re up to.




--- ## Lost in OCR Translation? Vision-Based Approaches to Robust Document Retrieval **Type:** Portfolio Item **Date:** 2025-05-08 **Description:** Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a popular technique for enhancing the reliability and utility of Large Language Models (LLMs) by groundi... Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a popular technique for enhancing the reliability and utility of Large Language Models (LLMs) by grounding responses in external documents. Traditional RAG systems rely on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to first process scanned documents into text. However, even state-of-the-art OCRs can introduce errors, especially in degraded or complex documents. Recent vision-language approaches, such as ColPali, propose direct visual embedding of documents, eliminating the need for OCR. This study presents a systematic comparison between a vision-based RAG system (ColPali) and more traditional OCR-based pipelines utilizing Llama 3.2 (90B) and Nougat OCR across varying document qualities. Beyond conventional retrieval accuracy metrics, we introduce a semantic answer evaluation benchmark to assess end-to-end question-answering performance. Our findings indicate that while vision-based RAG performs well on documents it has been fine-tuned on, OCR-based RAG is better able to generalize to unseen documents of varying quality. We highlight the key trade-offs between computational efficiency and semantic accuracy, offering practical guidance for RAG practitioners in selecting between OCR-dependent and vision-based document retrieval systems in production environments. --- ## Bluesky Post 2025-05-03 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-05-03 **Description:** This #Caturday Malala would like to play! Where are the toys? #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

This #Caturday Malala would like to play! Where are the toys?

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-05-03 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-05-03 **Description:** This #Caturday Malala would like to play! Where are the toys?#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat#GreyCatsOfMastodon#Catstodon #CatsOf...

This Malala would like to play! Where are the toys?




--- ## LLM-Assisted Translation of Legacy FORTRAN Codes to C++: A Cross-Platform Study **Type:** Portfolio Item **Date:** 2025-05-03 **Description:** Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being leveraged for generating andtranslating scientific computer codes by both domain-experts and non-dom... Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being leveraged for generating andtranslating scientific computer codes by both domain-experts and non-domain experts. Fortran has served as one of the go to programming languages in legacy high-performance computing(HPC) for scientific discoveries. Despite growing adoption, LLM-based code translation of legacy code-bases has not been thoroughly assessed or quantified for its usability. Here, we studied the applicability of LLM based translation of Fortran to C++ as a step towards building an agentic-workflow using openweight LLMs on two different computationalplatforms. We statistically quantified the compilationaccuracy of the translated C++ codes, measured the similarity of the LLM translated code to the human translated C++ code, and statistically quantified the output similarity of the Fortran to C++ translation. --- ## Bluesky Post 2025-04-26 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-04-26 **Description:** On a windy #Caturday Marjon keeps his ear to the neighborhood grapevine. #Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

On a windy #Caturday Marjon keeps his ear to the neighborhood grapevine.

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-04-26 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-04-26 **Description:** On a windy #Caturday Marjon keeps his ear to the neighborhood grapevine.#Cat #Cats#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCatsOfMastodon#Catstodon #...

On a windy Marjon keeps his ear to the neighborhood grapevine.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-04-19 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-04-19 **Description:** I came home from a conference in Tel Aviv one #Caturday bearing a vendor’s canvas bag. Malala loves this bag, LOVES IT! The bag has been part of the t...

I came home from a conference in Tel Aviv one #Caturday bearing a vendor’s canvas bag. Malala loves this bag, LOVES IT! The bag has been part of the toy box ever since.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-04-19 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-04-19 **Description:** I came home from a conference in Tel Aviv one #Caturday bearing a vendor’s canvas bag. Malala loves this bag, LOVES IT! The bag has been part of the t...

I came home from a conference in Tel Aviv one bearing a vendor’s canvas bag. Malala loves this bag, LOVES IT! The bag has been part of the toy box ever since.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-04-12 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-04-12 **Description:** Marjon would like to just #Caturday. #Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

Marjon would like to just #Caturday.

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-04-12 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-04-12 **Description:** Marjon would like to just #Caturday.#Cat #Cats#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCatsOfMastodon#Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfMastodon

Marjon would like to just .




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-04-08 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-04-08 **Description:** On a #Caturday 6 years ago Malala and Marjon were born. They’ve been wrestling for dominance ever since. #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule ...

On a #Caturday 6 years ago Malala and Marjon were born. They’ve been wrestling for dominance ever since.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-04-08 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-04-08 **Description:** On a #Caturday 6 years ago Malala and Marjon were born. They’ve been wrestling for dominance ever since.#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #Ta...

On a 6 years ago Malala and Marjon were born. They’ve been wrestling for dominance ever since.






--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-04-05 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-04-05 **Description:** One #Caturday, Malala was playing with a hair tie that my wife had stored in a drawer to no avail. I took it away from Malala and went back to my comp...

One #Caturday, Malala was playing with a hair tie that my wife had stored in a drawer to no avail. I took it away from Malala and went back to my computer work. She stared at me like this for the next 20 minutes to express “GIVE IT BACK NOW!”

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-04-05 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-04-05 **Description:** One #Caturday, Malala was playing with a hair tie that my wife had stored in a drawer to no avail. I took it away from Malala and went back to working...

One , Malala was playing with a hair tie that my wife had stored in a drawer to no avail. I took it away from Malala and went back to working on my computer. She sat there staring at me like this for the next 20 minutes to express “GIVE IT BACK NOW!”




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-03-29 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-03-29 **Description:** One #Caturday we tried to show “Flow” to Marjon but he was already mimicking the main character. #Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

One #Caturday we tried to show “Flow” to Marjon but he was already mimicking the main character.

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-03-29 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-03-29 **Description:** One #Caturday we tried to show “Flow” to Marjon but he was already mimicking the main character.#Cat #Cats#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCa...

One we tried to show “Flow” to Marjon but he was already mimicking the main character.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-03-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-03-23 **Description:** Malala is surprised that some people don’t celebrate #Caturday. #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

Malala is surprised that some people don’t celebrate #Caturday.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-03-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-03-23 **Description:** Malala is surprised that some people don’t celebrate #Caturday.#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat#GreyCatsOfMastodon#Catstodon #Cats...

Malala is surprised that some people don’t celebrate .




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-03-16 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-03-16 **Description:** I tried to wake Marjon up for #Caturday but he was too comfortable... and heavy. #Cat #Cats #SolidCats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCat...

I tried to wake Marjon up for #Caturday but he was too comfortable... and heavy.

#Cat #Cats #SolidCats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule
#BlackCatsOfMastodon
#Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfMastodon

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-03-16 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-03-16 **Description:** I tried to wake Marjon up for #Caturday but he was too comfortable... and heavy.#Catstodon #CatsOfFediverseckCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCatsO...

I tried to wake Marjon up for but he was too comfortable... and heavy.



--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-03-09 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-03-09 **Description:** Malala is keeping her eye on you every #Caturday. #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

Malala is keeping her eye on you every #Caturday.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-03-09 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-03-09 **Description:** Malala is keeping her eye on you every #Caturday. #Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat#GreyCatsOfMastodon#Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #...

Malala is keeping her eye on you every .




--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-03-09 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-03-09 **Description:** @amy123@mastodon.social She is Malala, with many confirmed kills, climber, power sleeper, dominator of her brother, food bowl tourist, cat tree ascend...

@amy123@mastodon.social She is Malala, with many confirmed kills, climber, power sleeper, dominator of her brother, food bowl tourist, cat tree ascendant, world traveler, and lioness extraordinaire.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-03-01 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-03-01 **Description:** On a #Caturday long ago, Malala and Marjon couldn’t get enough of each other. They were each others’ favorite toys. #Cat #Cats #Playfriends #GreyCat ...

On a #Caturday long ago, Malala and Marjon couldn’t get enough of each other. They were each others’ favorite toys.

#Cat #Cats #Playfriends
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-03-01 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-03-01 **Description:** On a #Caturday long ago, Malala and Marjon couldn’t get enough of each other. They were each others’ favorite toys.#Cat #Cats #Playfriends#GreyCat #Gr...

On a long ago, Malala and Marjon couldn’t get enough of each other. They were each others’ favorite toys.






--- ## Metadata Tracking and Analysis of LLM-Based Source-to-Source Code Translation **Type:** Portfolio Item **Date:** 2025-02-25 **Description:** Modern software development education and tool chains favor current programming languages. Many important programs still exist in older languages, such ... Modern software development education and tool chains favor current programming languages. Many important programs still exist in older languages, such as Fortran, yet they are difficult to maintain, augment, and port to new hardware. Translating programs from Fortran to a modern language such as C++ can help organizations leverage a larger pool of potential developers and available tooling. Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to produce better translations that are also more idiomatic to the target language than traditional translation methods. Our work addresses the case where code cannot be shared externally and requires a local translation system. Thus, we need to determine which combinations of prompting techniques and LLMs best perform these translations. We use an automated LLM-based source-to-source pipeline to combine prompt templates and example Fortran code from the Rosetta Code dataset to generate prompts, which are processed by an LLM into responses that are evaluated by code translation metrics. These metrics include compilation accuracy and the CodeBLEU automatic evaluation metric comparison to ground truth. We design a relational database schema for this AI workflow to store the metadata on input codes, outputs, and metrics to analyze the results at scale. We perform statistical and visual analysis by querying this database and computing statistics to show the impact of input parameters and LLMs on translation metrics. --- ## Bluesky Post 2025-02-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-02-23 **Description:** Malala and Marjon did not miss #Caturday yesterday. Everyday is Caturday. #Cat #Cats #TreeBuddies #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat #BlackCa...

Malala and Marjon did not miss #Caturday yesterday. Everyday is Caturday.

#Cat #Cats #TreeBuddies
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-02-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-02-23 **Description:** Malala and Marjon did not miss #Caturday yesterday. Everyday is Caturday.#Cat #Cats #TreeBuddies#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat#BlackCat #B...

Malala and Marjon did not miss yesterday. Everyday is Caturday.






--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-02-15 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-02-15 **Description:** The same #Caturday that Malala had claimed the kettle box, Marjon waited till she lost interest and swooped in to take it. He had to make sure that Si...

The same #Caturday that Malala had claimed the kettle box, Marjon waited till she lost interest and swooped in to take it. He had to make sure that Sister was not around because he did not want trouble.

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-02-15 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-02-15 **Description:** The same #Caturday that Malala claimed the kettle box, Marjon waited till she lost interest and swooped in to take it. He had to make sure that sister...

The same that Malala claimed the kettle box, Marjon waited till she lost interest and swooped in to take it. He had to make sure that sister was not around because he did not want trouble.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-02-08 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-02-08 **Description:** One #Caturday Malala was really happy that we finally removed the “useless electric kettle” from her box. #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule...

One #Caturday Malala was really happy that we finally removed the “useless electric kettle” from her box.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-02-08 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-02-08 **Description:** One #Caturday Malala was really happy that we finally removed the “useless electric kettle” from her box.#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #T...

One Malala was really happy that we finally removed the “useless electric kettle” from her box.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-02-05 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-02-05 **Description:** Archive US government data right now — install ArchiveTeam Warrior. Here are the instructions. #archive #data #DigitalPreservation www.reddit.com/r/A...

Archive US government data right now — install ArchiveTeam Warrior. Here are the instructions. #archive #data #DigitalPreservation

www.reddit.com/r/Archivetea...

--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-02-01 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-02-01 **Description:** One #Caturday I got on the floor to do my physical therapy and… well… Marjon decided this was the opportune moment for lap time. #Cat #Cats #FloorBud...

One #Caturday I got on the floor to do my physical therapy and… well… Marjon decided this was the opportune moment for lap time.

#Cat #Cats #FloorBuddies
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-02-01 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-02-01 **Description:** One #Caturday I got on the floor to do my physical therapy and… well… Marjon decided this was the opportune moment for lap time.#Cat #Cats #BlackCat #...

One I got on the floor to do my physical therapy and… well… Marjon decided this was the opportune moment for lap time.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-01-25 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-01-25 **Description:** This #Caturday Malala just needs a break… #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

This #Caturday Malala just needs a break…

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-01-25 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-01-25 **Description:** This #Caturday Malala just needs a break…#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat#GreyCatsOfMastodon#Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfMas...

This Malala just needs a break…




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-01-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-01-23 **Description:** Time to #donate to @aclu.org If you have any suggestions for other helpful organizations at this time, please comment. www.aclu.org

Time to #donate to @aclu.org

If you have any suggestions for other helpful organizations at this time, please comment.

www.aclu.org

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-01-20 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-01-20 **Description:** “This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone ...

“This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.”

— MLK’s “I have a dream” speech from Aug. 28, 1963

Source: npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i

--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-01-18 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-01-18 **Description:** This #Caturday, from on high, Marjon is joyfully admiring that his sister is sharing the same cat tree. Malala below is pondering all of the ways to k...

This #Caturday, from on high, Marjon is joyfully admiring that his sister is sharing the same cat tree. Malala below is pondering all of the ways to kill him so she can have the tree to herself.

#Cat #Cats #TreeBuddies
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-01-18 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-01-18 **Description:** This #Caturday, from on high, Marjon is joyfully admiring that his sister is sharing the same cat tree. Malala below is pondering all of the ways to k...

This , from on high, Marjon is joyfully admiring that his sister is sharing the same cat tree. Malala below is pondering all of the ways to kill him so she can have the tree to herself.






--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-01-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-01-17 **Description:** Today we tried the delicious #sushi and #ramen at Joy Sushi as part of the Santa Fe Asian Market in #SantaFe #NewMexico! #lunch #lunchdate

Today we tried the delicious #sushi and #ramen at Joy Sushi as part of the Santa Fe Asian Market in #SantaFe #NewMexico!
#lunch #lunchdate

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-01-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-01-17 **Description:** Today we tried the delicious #sushi and #ramen at Joy Sushi as part of the Santa Fe Asian Market in #SantaFe #NewMexico!#lunch #lunchdate

Today we tried the delicious and at Joy Sushi as part of the Santa Fe Asian Market in !

--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-01-11 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-01-11 **Description:** One #Caturday, I clearly interrupted the meeting on the bed. Malala was polite about it, but Marjon was clearly in the middle of his status report whe...

One #Caturday, I clearly interrupted the meeting on the bed. Malala was polite about it, but Marjon was clearly in the middle of his status report when I walked in.

#Cat #Cats #Meeting #BedMeeting
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-01-11 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-01-11 **Description:** One #Caturday, I clearly interrupted the meeting on the bed. Malala was polite about it, but Marjon was clearly in the middle of his status report whe...

One , I clearly interrupted the meeting on the bed. Malala was polite about it, but Marjon was clearly in the middle of his status report when I walked in.






--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-01-04 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-01-04 **Description:** One #Caturday Marjon continued his tradition of "MY SEAT!” where I would get up for a moment and he would steal my seat -- this time from the dining t...

One #Caturday Marjon continued his tradition of "MY SEAT!” where I would get up for a moment and he would steal my seat -- this time from the dining table.

#Cat #Cats #SeatStealer
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2025-01-04 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-01-04 **Description:** One #Caturday Marjon continued his tradition of "MY SEAT!” where I would get up for a moment and he would steal my seat -- this time from the dining t...

One Marjon continued his tradition of "MY SEAT!” where I would get up for a moment and he would steal my seat -- this time from the dining table.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-01-03 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-01-03 **Description:** Tonight @vneblitt.bsky.social and I celebrated her birthday with #dinner at Escondido in #SantaFe #NewMexico.

Tonight @vneblitt.bsky.social and I celebrated her birthday with #dinner at Escondido in #SantaFe #NewMexico.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-01-02 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-01-02 **Description:** Grammarly can catch some things, like passive voice, but I only accept its suggestions if the result is “correct” for my usage — meaning I already hav...

Grammarly can catch some things, like passive voice, but I only accept its suggestions if the result is “correct” for my usage — meaning I already have writing experience built through years of feedback. I’m not sure how someone without that experience can know that they are using it effectively.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2025-01-02 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2025-01-02 **Description:** There is a minimum threshold of skill one should have before using any tool. You should at least understand the principles before applying its suggest...

There is a minimum threshold of skill one should have before using any tool. You should at least understand the principles before applying its suggestions — and I stress that they are *suggestions* — they need to be evaluated. Unfortunately, teaching this is an uphill battle against the hype.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-12-31 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-31 **Description:** Today @vneblitt.bsky.social and I went to the New Mexico History Museum to learn more about #NewMexico, #SantaFe, and #Albuquerque. We even stopped by...

Today @vneblitt.bsky.social and I went to the New Mexico History Museum to learn more about #NewMexico, #SantaFe, and #Albuquerque. We even stopped by the Forks in the Road exhibit that featured many of New Mexico’s #restaurants!

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-12-31 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-31 **Description:** Today we went to the New Mexico History Museum to learn more about #NewMexico, #SantaFe, and #Albuquerque. We even stopped by the Forks in the Road ex...

Today we went to the New Mexico History Museum to learn more about , , and . We even stopped by the Forks in the Road exhibit that featured many of New Mexico’s !

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-12-29 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-29 **Description:** For lunch today, @vneblitt.bsky.social and I are enjoying our meals at Time Travelers Gastro Pub in #SantaFe #NewMexico! Try the steak frites and the...

For lunch today, @vneblitt.bsky.social and I are enjoying our meals at Time Travelers Gastro Pub in #SantaFe #NewMexico! Try the steak frites and the garlic shrimp! Thanks for a great meal! #pub #lunch #sunday

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-12-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-28 **Description:** Whenever we assemble furniture on a #Caturday, Malala stands ready to supervise and "help”. #Cat #Cats #FurnitureHelper #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsR...

Whenever we assemble furniture on a #Caturday, Malala stands ready to supervise and "help”.

#Cat #Cats #FurnitureHelper
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-12-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-28 **Description:** There we go! Finally! Goal achieved: Winning a #Fortnite match as Zendaya’s character MJ! #WeReNumberOne

There we go! Finally!

Goal achieved: Winning a #Fortnite match as Zendaya’s character MJ!

#WeReNumberOne

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-12-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-28 **Description:** Whenever we assemble furniture on a #Caturday, Malala stands ready to supervise and "help”.#Cat #Cats #FurnitureHelper#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule...

Whenever we assemble furniture on a , Malala stands ready to supervise and "help”.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-12-26 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-26 **Description:** And yes, I thanked the bus driver.

And yes, I thanked the bus driver.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-12-26 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-26 **Description:** Taking time off for #Christmas, I decided to give #Fortnite a try. I’m not great at it (only scoring first place once), but it is surprisingly fun. #...

Taking time off for #Christmas, I decided to give #Fortnite a try. I’m not great at it (only scoring first place once), but it is surprisingly fun.

#VideoGames #vacation #screenshots

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-12-26 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-26 **Description:** Taking time off for #Christmas, I decided to give #Fortnite a try. I’m not great at it (only scoring first place once), but it is surprisingly fun.And...

Taking time off for , I decided to give a try. I’m not great at it (only scoring first place once), but it is surprisingly fun.

And yes, I thanked the bus driver.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-12-24 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-24 **Description:** Good morning! #sunrise #morning #SunrisePhotography #NewMexico #ristra #chile

Good morning! #sunrise #morning #SunrisePhotography #NewMexico #ristra #chile

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-12-24 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-24 **Description:** Good morning! #sunrise #SunrisePhotography #NewMexico #ristra #chile

Good morning!

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-12-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-23 **Description:** I work with brilliant #ComputerScience and #ML #students from many universities, but sometimes there are #computing #skills that I wish they had bette...

I work with brilliant #ComputerScience and #ML #students from many universities, but sometimes there are #computing #skills that I wish they had better proficiency in.

Each year I share this resource with them because it highlights many of the additional skills they need:

missing.csail.mit.edu

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-12-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-23 **Description:** I work with brilliant #ComputerScience and #ML #students from many universities, but sometimes there are #computing #skills that I wish they had bette...

I work with brilliant and from many universities, but sometimes there are that I wish they had better proficiency in.

Each year I share this resource with them because it highlights many of the additional skills they need:

missing.csail.mit.edu

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-12-21 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-21 **Description:** “Lower Decks” was the best #StarTrek parody I’ve ever seen. The fact that it’s an actual Star Trek show makes it even better. It was a wonderful five...

“Lower Decks” was the best #StarTrek parody I’ve ever seen. The fact that it’s an actual Star Trek show makes it even better.

It was a wonderful five seasons. I’m sad to see it go.

#LowerDecks #IDIC

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-12-21 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-21 **Description:** One #Caturday, Marjon was unsure what to make of my wife's new addition to the couch. He doesn't know what to make of one Chococat, let alone a second...

One #Caturday, Marjon was unsure what to make of my wife's new addition to the couch. He doesn't know what to make of one Chococat, let alone a second one with pajamas.

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #Chococat

(original post deleted because Apple autocorrects "Marjon" to "Marion")

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-12-21 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-21 **Description:** One #Caturday, Marjon was unsure what to make of my wife's new addition to the couch. He doesn't know what to make of one Chococat, let alone a second...

One , Marjon was unsure what to make of my wife's new addition to the couch. He doesn't know what to make of one Chococat, let alone a second one with pajamas.

(edited because Apple autocorrects “Marjon” to “Marion”)




--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-12-21 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-21 **Description:** “Lower Decks” was the best #StarTrek parody I’ve ever seen. The fact that it’s an actual Star Trek show made it even better.It was a wonderful five se...

“Lower Decks” was the best parody I’ve ever seen. The fact that it’s an actual Star Trek show made it even better.

It was a wonderful five seasons. I’m sad to see it go.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-12-14 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-14 **Description:** This #Caturday Malala is ready to take on the world — from the comfort of her basket. #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

This #Caturday Malala is ready to take on the world — from the comfort of her basket.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-12-14 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-14 **Description:** This #Caturday Malala is ready to take on the world — from the comfort of her basket.#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat#GreyCatsOfMa...

This Malala is ready to take on the world — from the comfort of her basket.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-12-09 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-09 **Description:** I was worried that VI was losing ground, but there is neovim holding the line. I prefer either VI (in terminal) or VS Code, but need to check out som...

I was worried that VI was losing ground, but there is neovim holding the line.

I prefer either VI (in terminal) or VS Code, but need to check out some others on this list.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-12-07 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-07 **Description:** Marjon asks where you think you are going without him this #Caturday. #Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

Marjon asks where you think you are going without him this #Caturday.

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-12-07 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-07 **Description:** Marjon asks where you think you are going without him this #Caturday.#Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCatsOfMastodon#Catstodon #Ca...

Marjon asks where you think you are going without him this .




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-12-01 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-01 **Description:** I am impressed with the work of @lmstudio-ai.bsky.social. So far I have run LLMs via @hf.co, or ollama, or with my own custom scripts using llama.cpp....

I am impressed with the work of @lmstudio-ai.bsky.social. So far I have run LLMs via @hf.co, or ollama, or with my own custom scripts using llama.cpp. I'm glad to see more attempts at helping users use LLMs locally for privacy. #LLM #AI

Does anyone have any other suggestions/experiences to share?

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-12-01 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-01 **Description:** Additionally, it provides some kind of RAG interface for your own documents. You can "upload" a document into the chat and ask questions about it. I'm...

Additionally, it provides some kind of RAG interface for your own documents. You can "upload" a document into the chat and ask questions about it. I'm not sure how well it converts the document to text, especially for PDFs. This is a feature I've had to write code for in the past.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-12-01 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-12-01 **Description:** I am impressed with the work of LM Studio. So far I have run LLMs via Hugging Face, or ollama, or with my own custom scripts using llama.cpp. I'm glad...

I am impressed with the work of LM Studio. So far I have run LLMs via Hugging Face, or ollama, or with my own custom scripts using llama.cpp. I'm glad to see more attempts at helping users use LLMs locally for .

Does anyone have any other suggestions/experiences to share?

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-11-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-30 **Description:** This #Caturday Malala says it’s time to make the bed! She wants her parachute time! #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

This #Caturday Malala says it’s time to make the bed! She wants her parachute time!

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-11-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-30 **Description:** Thank you @mubashariqbal.com -- you've convinced me to log into Twitter just one more time so I can update my profile (again) and tell others where to...

Thank you @mubashariqbal.com -- you've convinced me to log into Twitter just one more time so I can update my profile (again) and tell others where to find me in the future...

This is an awesome contribution!
#TwitterMigration #Bluesky #SocialMedia

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-11-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-30 **Description:** This #Caturday Malala says it’s time to make the bed! She wants her parachute time!#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat#GreyCatsOfMast...

This Malala says it’s time to make the bed! She wants her parachute time!




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-11-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-28 **Description:** Happy #Thanksgiving fellow Blueskyers! May you enjoy the day, hopefully with some friends. (🙂 my wife made the LEGO centerpiece for today’s group mea...

Happy #Thanksgiving fellow Blueskyers! May you enjoy the day, hopefully with some friends.

(🙂 my wife made the LEGO centerpiece for today’s group meal)

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-11-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-28 **Description:** Happy #Thanksgiving fellow Mastodonians! May you enjoy the day, hopefully with some friends.(🙂 my wife made the LEGO centerpiece for today’s group mea...

Happy fellow Mastodonians! May you enjoy the day, hopefully with some friends.

(🙂 my wife made the LEGO centerpiece for today’s group meal)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-11-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-27 **Description:** Through years of #TV watching I’ve been cataloging “Shawn’s Favorite Crescendo Moments in TV” where everything in a scene's production gives an emotio...

Through years of #TV watching I’ve been cataloging “Shawn’s Favorite Crescendo Moments in TV” where everything in a scene's production gives an emotional punch that serves as a crescendo for that point in the series.


Now I can add Isha’s moment from #Arcane Season 2, episode 6 to that list.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-11-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-27 **Description:** Through years of #TV watching I’ve been mentally cataloging “Shawn’s Favorite Crescendo Moments in TV” where everything in a scene's production gives ...

Through years of watching I’ve been mentally cataloging “Shawn’s Favorite Crescendo Moments in TV” where everything in a scene's production gives an emotional punch that serves as a crescendo for that point in the series.

Now I can add Isha’s moment from Season 2, episode 6 to that list.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-11-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-27 **Description:** The scenes are not standalone, they only work because the viewer has the context. They require that you have traveled with the characters up to that p...

The scenes are not standalone, they only work because the viewer has the context. They require that you have traveled with the characters up to that point.

The first time I conceived of such a list was after seeing John Locke in getting up from the plane crash in “Walkabout”.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-11-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-27 **Description:** Many times, such scenes serve as a transformative moment in a character’s arc, demonstrating that they (or the series) will not be the same moving for...

Many times, such scenes serve as a transformative moment in a character’s arc, demonstrating that they (or the series) will not be the same moving forward.

Such a scene is Daenerys Targaryen of waking up from the funeral pyre in “Fire and Blood” with… dragons.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-11-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-27 **Description:** Likewise, some bring many story threads together, pushing the series to its next stage, punctuating that point in the series and helping the audience ...

Likewise, some bring many story threads together, pushing the series to its next stage, punctuating that point in the series and helping the audience into the next chapter.

I think Maarva Andor’s speech from “Andor” in “Rix Road” provides such a transition point.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-11-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-27 **Description:** And such moments can apply to episodic television as well, changing the tone and overall feel of the series.Riker’s “prepare to fire” in TNG’s “The Be...

And such moments can apply to episodic television as well, changing the tone and overall feel of the series.

Riker’s “prepare to fire” in TNG’s “The Best of Both Worlds” left me hanging all summer, and inspires script writers to this day.

I look forward to the next item I add to the list. 😊

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-11-24 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-24 **Description:** #introduction - Hi, I'm Shawn Jones. I'm a cat dad and a Computer Scientist. I have many interests, including #ArtificialIntelligence #WebScience #Na...

#introduction - Hi, I'm Shawn Jones. I'm a cat dad and a Computer Scientist.

I have many interests, including #ArtificialIntelligence #WebScience #NaturalLanguageProcessing #ComputerVision #LEGO #IDIC #Caturday and more!

Below is a visualization I made so my colleagues can differentiate my cats.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-11-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-23 **Description:** One #Caturday years ago, Marjon began his relationship with only the most expensive high end boxes. He is disappointed that we don't buy Apple product...

One #Caturday years ago, Marjon began his relationship with only the most expensive high end boxes. He is disappointed that we don't buy Apple products frequently enough.

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-11-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-23 **Description:** One #Caturday years ago, Marjon began his relationship with only the most expensive high end boxes. He is disappointed that we don't buy Apple product...

One years ago, Marjon began his relationship with only the most expensive high end boxes. He is disappointed that we don't buy Apple products frequently enough.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-11-16 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-16 **Description:** #Caturday #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

#Caturday

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-11-16 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-16 **Description:** #Caturday #Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat#GreyCatsOfMastodon#Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfMastodon




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-11-09 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-09 **Description:** #Caturday #Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

#Caturday

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-11-09 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-09 **Description:** #Caturday #Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCatsOfMastodon#Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfMastodon




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-11-08 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-08 **Description:** Since Wednesday morning, I can’t sleep for a whole night anymore… I hope this stops. I need the energy to start on next steps. Malala is beleaguered b...

Since Wednesday morning, I can’t sleep for a whole night anymore… I hope this stops. I need the energy to start on next steps. Malala is beleaguered because I keep getting up.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-11-08 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-08 **Description:** Since Wednesday morning, I can’t sleep for a whole night anymore… I hope this stops. I need the energy to start on next steps. Malala is beleaguered b...

Since Wednesday morning, I can’t sleep for a whole night anymore… I hope this stops. I need the energy to start on next steps. Malala is beleaguered because I keep getting up.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-11-06 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-06 **Description:** Marjon does not know why I need it, but he is offering me comfort today…

Marjon does not know why I need it, but he is offering me comfort today…

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-11-06 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-06 **Description:** Marjon does not know why I need it, but he is offering me comfort today…

Marjon does not know why I need it, but he is offering me comfort today…

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-11-05 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-05 **Description:** As an American, I implore my fellow Americans who have not yet cast their ballot to #vote today. I want the free world to persist and not fall to dark...

As an American, I implore my fellow Americans who have not yet cast their ballot to #vote today. I want the free world to persist and not fall to darkness. Go to vote.gov and figure out how you can make a difference. #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz to protect your rights.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-11-05 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-05 **Description:** As an American, I implore my fellow Americans who have not yet cast their ballot to #vote today. I want the free world to persist and not fall to dark...

As an American, I implore my fellow Americans who have not yet cast their ballot to today. I want the free world to persist and not fall to darkness. Go to vote.gov and figure out how you can make a difference. to protect your rights.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-11-04 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-04 **Description:** post a movie from the year you turned 18

post a movie from the year you turned 18

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-11-02 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-02 **Description:** This #Caturday, Malala implores Americans to #vote against the guys who hate cat ladies on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #...

This #Caturday, Malala implores Americans to #vote against the guys who hate cat ladies on Tuesday, November 5, 2024.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-11-02 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-11-02 **Description:** This #Caturday, Malala implores Americans to #vote against the guys who hate cat ladies on Tuesday, November 5, 2024.#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #Gre...

This , Malala implores Americans to against the guys who hate cat ladies on Tuesday, November 5, 2024.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-10-26 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-10-26 **Description:** This #Caturday Marjon asks how will you celebrate #NationalBlackCatDay tomorrow? Will we lay out new boxes? What new fishing lure toys will be shared?...

This #Caturday Marjon asks how will you celebrate #NationalBlackCatDay tomorrow? Will we lay out new boxes? What new fishing lure toys will be shared? Will there be with the traditional feast of food with more food?

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-10-26 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-10-26 **Description:** This #Caturday Marjon asks how will you celebrate #NationalBlackCatDay tomorrow? Will we lay out new boxes? What new fishing lure toys will be shared?...

This Marjon asks how will you celebrate tomorrow? Will we lay out new boxes? What new fishing lure toys will be shared? Will there be the traditional feast of food with more food?




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-10-19 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-10-19 **Description:** Rest assured that, this #Caturday, while the rest of the world is in disarray, Malala is too sleepy to care. #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsR...

Rest assured that, this #Caturday, while the rest of the world is in disarray, Malala is too sleepy to care.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-10-19 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-10-19 **Description:** I love living in a state that supports #EarlyVoting. #Vote #VoteEarly #VoteInEveryElection #Vote2024

I love living in a state that supports #EarlyVoting. #Vote #VoteEarly #VoteInEveryElection #Vote2024

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-10-19 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-10-19 **Description:** Rest assured that, this #Caturday, while the rest of the world is in disarray, Malala is too sleepy to care.#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule...

Rest assured that, this , while the rest of the world is in disarray, Malala is too sleepy to care.




--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-10-19 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-10-19 **Description:** I love living in a state that supports #EarlyVoting. #Vote #VoteEarly #VoteInEveryElection #Vote2024 #NewMexico

I love living in a state that supports .

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-10-12 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-10-12 **Description:** One #Caturday Marjon wondered why his sister was on the other side of the window. Why didn't she come outside? Why can't he smell her? Why is she mad ...

One #Caturday Marjon wondered why his sister was on the other side of the window. Why didn't she come outside? Why can't he smell her? Why is she mad at him? What did he do?

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-10-12 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-10-12 **Description:** One #Caturday Marjon wondered why his sister was on the other side of the window. Why didn't she come outside? Why can't he smell her? Why is she mad ...

One Marjon wondered why his sister was on the other side of the window. Why didn't she come outside? Why can't he smell her? Why is she mad at him? What did he do?




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-10-05 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-10-05 **Description:** One #Caturday, Malala was really concerned about something behind me. I never found out what worried her so much. #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #Grey...

One #Caturday, Malala was really concerned about something behind me. I never found out what worried her so much.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-10-05 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-10-05 **Description:** One #Caturday, Malala was really concerned about something behind me. I never found out what worried her so much.#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCat...

One , Malala was really concerned about something behind me. I never found out what worried her so much.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-09-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-09-28 **Description:** After a hard #Caturday of fighting with his sister all day, Marjon just needs the comfort of my lap -- but only if I sit at the dining table and not w...

After a hard #Caturday of fighting with his sister all day, Marjon just needs the comfort of my lap -- but only if I sit at the dining table and not when it is convenient for me.

#Cat #Cats #PowerMeterFriends
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-09-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-09-28 **Description:** After a hard #Caturday of fighting with his sister all day, Marjon just needs the comfort of my lap -- but only if I sit at the dining table and not w...

After a hard of fighting with his sister all day, Marjon just needs the comfort of my lap -- but only if I sit at the dining table and not when it is convenient for me.




--- ## Enhancing Code Translation in Language Models with Few-Shot Learning via Retrieval-Augmented Generation **Type:** Portfolio Item **Date:** 2024-09-23 **Description:** The advent of large language models (LLMs) has significantly advanced the field of code translation, enabling automated translation between programming ... The advent of large language models (LLMs) has significantly advanced the field of code translation, enabling automated translation between programming languages. However, these models often struggle with complex translation tasks due to inadequate contextual understanding. This paper introduces a novel approach that enhances code translation through Few-Shot Learning, augmented with retrieval-based techniques. By leveraging a repository of existing code translations, we dynamically retrieve the most relevant examples to guide the model in translating new code segments. Our method, based on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), substantially improves translation quality by providing contextual examples from which the model can learn in real-time. We selected RAG over traditional fine-tuning methods due to its ability to utilize existing codebases or a locally stored corpus of code, which allows for dynamic adaptation to diverse translation tasks without extensive retraining. Extensive experiments on diverse datasets with open LLM models such as Starcoder, Llama3-70B Instruct, CodeLlama-34B Instruct, Granite-34B Code Instruct, and Mixtral-8x22B, as well as commercial LLM models like GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4o, demonstrate our approach's superiority over traditional zero-shot methods, especially in translating between Fortran and CPP. We also explored varying numbers of shots i.e. examples provided during inference, specifically 1, 2, and 3 shots and different embedding models for RAG, including Nomic-Embed, Starencoder, and CodeBERT, to assess the robustness and effectiveness of our approach. --- ## Bluesky Post 2024-09-21 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-09-21 **Description:** Each #Caturday, Malala thinks of our Roomba: “I really hate that robot.” #Cat #Cats #RoombaCats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

Each #Caturday, Malala thinks of our Roomba: “I really hate that robot.”

#Cat #Cats #RoombaCats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-09-21 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-09-21 **Description:** Each #Caturday, Malala thinks of our Roomba: “I really hate that robot.”#Cat #Cats #RoombaCats#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat#GreyCatsOfMas...

Each , Malala thinks of our Roomba: “I really hate that robot.”




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-09-18 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-09-18 **Description:** Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #174,971! At least I got in there somewhere (the first 10%!). Thanks @bsky.app for making me feel sp...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #174,971!

At least I got in there somewhere (the first 10%!). Thanks @bsky.app for making me feel special and thanks to @ibnesayeed.bsky.social for sending me the #Bluesky invite as part of my #TwitterMigration journey!

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-09-15 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-09-15 **Description:** Vote! I just finished my first batch of Vote Forward letters to encourage voter turnout. You can do this, too! Go to votefwd.org and receive instructi...

Vote! I just finished my first batch of Vote Forward letters to encourage voter turnout. You can do this, too! Go to votefwd.org and receive instructions on how to send hand-written letters to voters encouraging them to vote. #vote #democracy #election #RockTheVote #VoterTurnout #RegisterToVote

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-09-15 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-09-15 **Description:** Vote! I just finished my first batch of Vote Forward letters to encourage voter turnout. You can do this, too! Go to https://votefwd.org and receive i...

Vote! I just finished my first batch of Vote Forward letters to encourage voter turnout. You can do this, too! Go to votefwd.org and receive instructions on how to send hand-written letters to voters giving them a list of the candidates on their local ballot and encouraging them to vote.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-09-14 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-09-14 **Description:** On a walk one #Caturday Marjon visited his friend power meter. Every time we'd go out, he would demand we say hi to power meter before continuing on. ...

On a walk one #Caturday Marjon visited his friend power meter. Every time we'd go out, he would demand we say hi to power meter before continuing on.

#Cat #Cats #PowerMeterFriends
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-09-14 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-09-14 **Description:** On a walk one #Caturday Marjon visited his friend power meter. Every time we'd go out, he would demand we say hi to power meter before continuing on.#...

On a walk one Marjon visited his friend power meter. Every time we'd go out, he would demand we say hi to power meter before continuing on.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-09-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-09-10 **Description:** This past summer I mentored Ajay Sreekumar from the University of Arizona. Thank you Ajay Sreekumar for helping us with our projects developing, apply...

This past summer I mentored Ajay Sreekumar from the University of Arizona. Thank you Ajay Sreekumar for helping us with our projects developing, applying, and evaluating Large Language Models and scientific Foundation Models. Good luck in your future endeavors!

www.linkedin.com/posts/ajay-s...

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-09-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-09-10 **Description:** This past summer I mentored Ajay Sreekumar from the University of Arizona. Thank you Ajay Sreekumar for helping us with our projects developing, apply...

This past summer I mentored Ajay Sreekumar from the University of Arizona. Thank you Ajay Sreekumar for helping us with our projects developing, applying, and evaluating Large Language Models and scientific Foundation Models. Good luck in your future endeavors!

linkedin.com/posts/ajay-sreeku

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-09-07 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-09-07 **Description:** This #Caturday Malala wants you to consider how the world would be much better if she were running things. Until she establishes her dictatorship, Mal...

This #Caturday Malala wants you to consider how the world would be much better if she were running things. Until she establishes her dictatorship, Malala wants you to vote against the guys who hate cat ladies.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-09-07 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-09-07 **Description:** This #Caturday Malala wants you to consider the state of the world and how it would be much better if she were running things. Until she has establish...

This Malala wants you to consider the state of the world and how it would be much better if she were running things. Until she has established her dictatorship, Malala wants you to vote in the direction of more cat things. Vote against the guys who hate cat ladies. That is all of for now. Await further instructions from the cat lobby.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-08-31 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-31 **Description:** This #Caturday, Marjon is worried about the world. Why all this negative talk of cat ladies? Will the Brazil Twitter block bring him more fans? Why di...

This #Caturday, Marjon is worried about the world. Why all this negative talk of cat ladies? Will the Brazil Twitter block bring him more fans? Why did Threads block the Caturday hashtag? Should he move to Istanbul to be worshipped? What role does his sister Malala have in all of this?

#Cat #Cats

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-08-31 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-31 **Description:** This #Caturday, Marjon is concerned about the state of the world. Why all this disparaging talk of cat ladies when they feed us like they should? Will...

This , Marjon is concerned about the state of the world. Why all this disparaging talk of cat ladies when they feed us like they should? Will Twitter being blocked in Brazil bring him more fans? Why was the Caturday hashtag blocked on Threads? Why is Mastodon safe? Should he move to Istanbul where cats are worshipped? What role does his sister Malala have in all of this?




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-08-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-30 **Description:** I’ve been in #SantaFe for almost 10 years. This is my first #RainbowMountain. #NewMexico #iPhonePhotography #Rainbow

I’ve been in #SantaFe for almost 10 years. This is my first #RainbowMountain. #NewMexico #iPhonePhotography #Rainbow

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-08-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-30 **Description:** I’ve been in #SantaFe for almost 10 years. This is my first #RainbowMountain. #NewMexico #iPhonePhotography #Rainbow

I’ve been in for almost 10 years. This is my first .

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-08-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-27 **Description:** One of the things that fascinates me in #NewMexico is that we can see so far, to the weather that others are having miles away. #SantaFe #sunset #rain

One of the things that fascinates me in #NewMexico is that we can see so far, to the weather that others are having miles away. #SantaFe #sunset #rain

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-08-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-27 **Description:** One of the things that fascinates me in #NewMexico is that we can see so far, to the weather that others are having miles away. #SantaFe #sunset #rain

One of the things that fascinates me in is that we can see so far, to the weather that others are having miles away.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-08-24 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-24 **Description:** A #Caturday unpacking story in four parts: Marjon wonders why the cardboard box is making noise and Malala is annoyed that her hiding place has been d...

A #Caturday unpacking story in four parts: Marjon wonders why the cardboard box is making noise and Malala is annoyed that her hiding place has been disturbed.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-08-24 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-24 **Description:** A #Caturday unpacking story in four parts: Marjon wonders why the cardboard box is making noise and Malala is annoyed that her hiding place has been d...

A unpacking story in four parts: Marjon wonders why the cardboard box is making noise and Malala is annoyed that her hiding place has been disturbed.






--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-08-19 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-19 **Description:** I've been donating to the Biden (now Harris) campaign for several months a little at a time because I can only afford to give small amounts. Which De...

I've been donating to the Biden (now Harris) campaign for several months a little at a time because I can only afford to give small amounts.

Which Democratic Senator candidates also need the most help?

#WeAreNotGoingBack #HarrisWalz #HarrisWalz2024 #Harris2024

secure.actblue.com

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-08-19 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-19 **Description:** I've been donating to the Biden (now Harris) campaign for several months a little at a time because I am not a billionaire and can only afford to give...

I've been donating to the Biden (now Harris) campaign for several months a little at a time because I am not a billionaire and can only afford to give small amounts.

The primaries are mostly over for the Senate, so we know who the Democratic Senate candidates are. Which Democratic Senator candidates also need the most help?

See: secure.actblue.com

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-08-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-17 **Description:** With fastidious aplomb, Marjon meticulously cleans every detail of his coat, multiple times every #Caturday, to look his best for the ladies. #BlackC...

With fastidious aplomb, Marjon meticulously cleans every detail of his coat, multiple times every #Caturday, to look his best for the ladies.

#BlackCatAppreciationDay

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-08-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-17 **Description:** With fastidious aplomb, Marjon meticulously cleans every detail of his coat, multiple times every #Caturday, to look his best for the ladies. #BlackCa...

With fastidious aplomb, Marjon meticulously cleans every detail of his coat, multiple times every , to look his best for the ladies.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-08-14 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-14 **Description:** After the election, depending on how it goes, I will likely return to my researcher self, posting things about how well computers accomplish certain t...

After the election, depending on how it goes, I will likely return to my researcher self, posting things about how well computers accomplish certain tasks, highlighting interesting research work.

But, right now #WeAreNotGoingBack

#HarrisWalz2024 #HarrisWalz #IUnderstandTheAssignment
#SaveDemocracy

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-08-11 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-11 **Description:** After the election, depending on how it goes, I will likely return to my researcher self, posting things about how well computers accomplish certain t...

After the election, depending on how it goes, I will likely return to my researcher self, posting things about how well computers accomplish certain tasks, highlighting my work with natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision, information retrieval, etc.

But, right now


--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-08-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-10 **Description:** This #Caturday Malala and Marjon demonstrate that sometimes you just need to pitch in and give your sibling a good cleanin’.#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCa...

This Malala and Marjon demonstrate that sometimes you just need to pitch in and give your sibling a good cleanin’.






--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-08-08 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-08 **Description:** And now reposting works again. Whoever fixed it, thanks… #Mastodon #Bluesky #Threads

And now reposting works again. Whoever fixed it, thanks…

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-08-07 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-07 **Description:** My wife and I just finished watching Hulu's #BlackTwitter documentary. I thank her for explaining some of the cultural events to me as they were discu...

My wife and I just finished watching Hulu's documentary. I thank her for explaining some of the cultural events to me as they were discussed on the show.

The final episode mentioned , how he bought and disabled many accounts, and then how the diaspora spread to places like , , and .

They mention that such a space will come back again, at some point, because it always does, which gives me hope.

hulu.com/series/black-twitter-

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-08-07 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-07 **Description:** I’m on #Mastodon, #Bluesky, and #Threads. Until little more than a month ago, Threads had very little activity. I would post and receive no response. ...

I’m on , , and . Until little more than a month ago, Threads had very little activity. I would post and receive no response. Then activity exploded. I’ve been replying to and reposting posts. Now, suddenly I can no longer repost anything. It is weird because other functionality works fine.
threads.net/@shawnmjones/post/

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-08-03 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-03 **Description:** On a #Caturday years ago, Malala and Marjon posed for their music album cover. #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat #BlackCat #Black...

On a #Caturday years ago, Malala and Marjon posed for their music album cover.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

(I was going to post a different video, but Bluesky did not allow me to.)

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-08-03 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-08-03 **Description:** This past #Caturday Malala and Marjon decided our delivery box was a new playhouse. Marjon was excited about his new fort. Malala was excited to peste...

This past Malala and Marjon decided our delivery box was a new playhouse. Marjon was excited about his new fort. Malala was excited to pester Marjon from the roof of his new fort.






--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-07-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-07-28 **Description:** I recently read “Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet" by @taylorlorenz. It was an enjoyable walk down mem...

I recently read “Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet" by @taylorlorenz. It was an enjoyable walk down memory lane and I encourage others to check it out.

I thank her for helping me realize that “" is not the same as an "(online) ” though one grew from the other. Now I better appreciate my relationship with some platforms (e.g., ).

simonandschuster.com/books/Ext

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-07-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-07-27 **Description:** On a #Caturday stroll Marjon remained alert against the neighborhood’s birds of prey. #Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCatsOfMas...

On a #Caturday stroll Marjon remained alert against the neighborhood’s birds of prey.

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule
#BlackCatsOfMastodon
#Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfMastodon

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-07-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-07-27 **Description:** I’ve been wondering if trying to help #KamalaHarris with participation on #Twitter is even useful when Musk might literally prevent any posts or retw...

I’ve been wondering if trying to help with participation on is even useful when Musk might literally prevent any posts or retweets from being seen anyway. I think I’ll just stick to .

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-07-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-07-27 **Description:** On a #Caturday stroll Marjon remained alert against the neighborhood’s birds of prey and the flying soccer balls next door.#Cat #Cats#BlackCat #BlackC...

On a stroll Marjon remained alert against the neighborhood’s birds of prey and the flying soccer balls next door.




--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-07-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-07-23 **Description:** I've been excited about people's energy around #KamalaHarris. It has kept me checking #threads, #mastodon, and #bluesky. Likewise, I've been boosting ...

I've been excited about people's energy around . It has kept me checking , , and . Likewise, I've been boosting posts in support. I have also donated and am looking for ways to help out .

As a member of the , I have not been on in months. Is there any value in trying to help ' campaign with retweets on ?

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-07-20 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-07-20 **Description:** Ever since Malala was a kitten, my wife often refers to Malala as "the Sleep Witch.” On a sleep witch #Caturday Malala lay on me and, no matter what I...

Ever since Malala was a kitten, my wife often refers to Malala as "the Sleep Witch.” On a sleep witch #Caturday Malala lay on me and, no matter what I am doing, I start to get tired.
#Cat #Cats #SleepWitchCat #SleepWitch #SleepWitchCaturday
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-07-20 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-07-20 **Description:** Ever since Malala was a kitten, my wife often refers to Malala as "the Sleep Witch.” On a Sleep Witch #Caturday Malala lay on me and, no matter what I...

Ever since Malala was a kitten, my wife often refers to Malala as "the Sleep Witch.” On a Sleep Witch Malala lay on me and, no matter what I am doing, I start to get tired. Credit to @vneblitt for photo.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-07-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-07-17 **Description:** All we can do is keep breathing now 🎶 #mantra #songs youtu.be/Svfd999aej8?...

All we can do is keep breathing now 🎶

#mantra #songs

youtu.be/Svfd999aej8?...

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-07-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-07-17 **Description:** All we can do is keep breathing now 🎶#mantra #songs #calmhttps://youtu.be/Svfd999aej8?si=wdpMjR_ikxosG9F7

All we can do is keep breathing now 🎶

youtu.be/Svfd999aej8?si=wdpMjR

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-07-13 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-07-13 **Description:** One #Caturday Marjon decided that he had better plans for my T-shirt that didn’t involve me wearing it. #Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRul...

One #Caturday Marjon decided that he had better plans for my T-shirt that didn’t involve me wearing it.

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-07-13 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-07-13 **Description:** One #Caturday Marjon decided that he had better plans for my T-shirt that didn’t involve me wearing it.#Cat #Cats#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #...

One Marjon decided that he had better plans for my T-shirt that didn’t involve me wearing it.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-07-10 **Description:** #SantaFe #NewMexico #Sunset #photography #iphonephotography

#SantaFe #NewMexico #Sunset #photography #iphonephotography

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-07-10 **Description:** #SantaFe #NewMexico #Sunset #photography #iphonephotography

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-07-06 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-07-06 **Description:** Finding a top corner of the walk-in-closet, Malala did not like the #Fireworks on the #FourthOfJuly but she knew #Caturday was coming soon. Unfortuna...

Finding a top corner of the walk-in-closet, Malala did not like the #Fireworks on the #FourthOfJuly but she knew #Caturday was coming soon.

Unfortunately, by going upstairs and getting closer to the roof she got closer to the loud fireworks…

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-07-06 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-07-06 **Description:** Finding a top corner of the walk-in-closet, Malala did not like the #Fireworks on the #FourthOfJuly but she knew #Caturday was coming soon.Unfortunate...

Finding a top corner of the walk-in-closet, Malala did not like the on the but she knew was coming soon.

Unfortunately, by going upstairs and getting closer to the roof she got closer to the loud fireworks…




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-06-29 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-06-29 **Description:** Each #Caturday Marjon lodges a protest outside of the pantry where his food is kept, “BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN 30 MINUTES SINCE SOMEONE PUT FOOD IN MY BOWL...

Each #Caturday Marjon lodges a protest outside of the pantry where his food is kept, “BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN 30 MINUTES SINCE SOMEONE PUT FOOD IN MY BOWL!” (There is food in his bowl, but he hopes there could be more.)

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-06-29 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-06-29 **Description:** Each #Caturday Marjon lodges a protest outside of the pantry where his food is kept, “BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN 30 MINUTES SINCE SOMEONE PUT FOOD IN MY BOWL...

Each Marjon lodges a protest outside of the pantry where his food is kept, “BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN 30 MINUTES SINCE SOMEONE PUT FOOD IN MY BOWL!” (There is food in his bowl, but he hopes there could be more.)




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-06-22 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-06-22 **Description:** One #Caturday five years ago this month, Malala came to live with us. She rules the home with an iron fist… at least during the few hours that she’s n...

One #Caturday five years ago this month, Malala came to live with us. She rules the home with an iron fist… at least during the few hours that she’s not napping.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-06-22 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-06-22 **Description:** One #Caturday five years ago this month, Malala came to live with us. She rules the home with an iron fist… at least during the few hours that she’s n...

One five years ago this month, Malala came to live with us. She rules the home with an iron fist… at least during the few hours that she’s not napping.





--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-06-15 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-06-15 **Description:** On a #Caturday five years ago this month, Marjon came to live with us. He’s switched between bouts of #FOMO and confusion ever since. #Cat #Cats #Bla...

On a #Caturday five years ago this month, Marjon came to live with us. He’s switched between bouts of #FOMO and confusion ever since.

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-06-15 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-06-15 **Description:** On a #Caturday five years ago this month, Marjon came to live with us. He’s switched between bouts of #FOMO and confusion ever since.#Cat #Cats#BlackC...

On a five years ago this month, Marjon came to live with us. He’s switched between bouts of and confusion ever since.





--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-06-08 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-06-08 **Description:** No matter what sized box, we can’t stop Malala from fitting in every box every #Caturday #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat #GreyC...

No matter what sized box, we can’t stop Malala from fitting in every box every #Caturday

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat
#GreyCatsOfMastodon
#Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfMastodon

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-06-08 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-06-08 **Description:** No matter what sized box, we can’t stop Malala from fitting in every box every #Caturday#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat#GreyCatsO...

No matter what sized box, we can’t stop Malala from fitting in every box every




--- ## Using MDX **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-06-01 **Description:** Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet This theme comes with the [@astrojs/mdx](https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/integrations-guide/mdx/) integration installed and configured in your `astro.config.mjs` config file. If you prefer not to use MDX, you can disable support by removing the integration from your config file. ## Why MDX? MDX is a special flavor of Markdown that supports embedded JavaScript & JSX syntax. This unlocks the ability to [mix JavaScript and UI Components into your Markdown content](https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/markdown-content/#mdx-features) for things like interactive charts or alerts. If you have existing content authored in MDX, this integration will hopefully make migrating to Astro a breeze. ## Example Here is how you import and use a UI component inside of MDX. When you open this page in the browser, you should see the clickable button below. import HeaderLink from '../../../components/HeaderLink.astro'; Embedded component in MDX ## More Links - [MDX Syntax Documentation](https://mdxjs.com/docs/what-is-mdx) - [Astro Usage Documentation](https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/markdown-content/#markdown-and-mdx-pages) - **Note:** [Client Directives](https://docs.astro.build/en/reference/directives-reference/#client-directives) are still required to create interactive components. Otherwise, all components in your MDX will render as static HTML (no JavaScript) by default. --- ## Bluesky Post 2024-06-01 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-06-01 **Description:** One #Caturday, Marjon peeped out from the comfort of the packing paper in his cardboard box. Cats LOVE boxes. We often keep some from the last delive...

One #Caturday, Marjon peeped out from the comfort of the packing paper in his cardboard box. Cats LOVE boxes. We often keep some from the last delivery so they can play with them. They get distressed when we cut up the boxes for recycling.

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-06-01 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-06-01 **Description:** I love that #NewMexico does #EarlyVoting and #VoteByMail! #RememberToVote #VoteInEveryElection

I love that #NewMexico does #EarlyVoting and #VoteByMail! #RememberToVote #VoteInEveryElection

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-06-01 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-06-01 **Description:** One #Caturday, Marjon peeped out from the comfort of the packing paper in his cardboard box. Cats LOVE boxes. We often keep one or two around from the...

One , Marjon peeped out from the comfort of the packing paper in his cardboard box. Cats LOVE boxes. We often keep one or two around from the last delivery so that our cats have some time with them. They get very distressed when we cut up the boxes for recycling weeks later.




--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-06-01 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-06-01 **Description:** I love that #NewMexico does #EarlyVoting and #VoteByMail! #RememberToVote #VoteInEveryElection

I love that does and !

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-05-25 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-05-25 **Description:** One #Caturday, as bed-making project manager, Malala had already done her part holding down the fitted sheet and was ready for the next layer. Once we...

One #Caturday, as bed-making project manager, Malala had already done her part holding down the fitted sheet and was ready for the next layer. Once we throw on the next sheet, she pokes all of her feet up in the air and makes her own bubble.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-05-25 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-05-25 **Description:** One #Caturday, as bed-making project manager, Malala had already done her part holding down the fitted sheet and was ready for the next layer. She was...

One , as bed-making project manager, Malala had already done her part holding down the fitted sheet and was ready for the next layer. She was disappointed that we weren't moving fast enough on the parachute step. Once we throw on the next sheet, she likes to poke all of her feet up in the air and make her own bubble under the sheet.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-05-22 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-05-22 **Description:** As I mentioned on Mastodon: This Nature article paints a terrifying picture of the dangers for anyone performing any kind of #research. “#Harassment...

As I mentioned on Mastodon:

This Nature article paints a terrifying picture of the dangers for anyone performing any kind of #research.

“#Harassment of #scientists is surging — institutions aren’t sure how to help”

#Science #scholcomm #WillfulIgnorance #attacks #scholarship #freedom

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-05-22 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-05-22 **Description:** This Nature article paints a terrifying picture of the dangers for anyone performing any kind of #research.“#Harassment of #scientists is surging — in...

This Nature article paints a terrifying picture of the dangers for anyone performing any kind of .

“ of is surging — institutions aren’t sure how to help”

In the US “the aggression against science and scientists is coming from one political party, and the extreme element of one political party” but the article talks about harassment in other countries as well.

nature.com/articles/d41586-024

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-05-18 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-05-18 **Description:** One #Caturday, Marjon complained at the Petco: "I want the toy aisle! Now!" #Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCatsOfMastodon #Cats...

One #Caturday, Marjon complained at the Petco: "I want the toy aisle! Now!"

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule
#BlackCatsOfMastodon
#Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfMastodon

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-05-18 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-05-18 **Description:** One #Caturday, Marjon complained at the Petco: "I want the toy aisle! Now!"#Cat #Cats#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCatsOfMastodon#Catstodo...

One , Marjon complained at the Petco: "I want the toy aisle! Now!"




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-05-11 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-05-11 **Description:** One #Caturday, Malala was seriously focused on something on the other side of the wall — her brother, who continues to be unaware of the persistent an...

One #Caturday, Malala was seriously focused on something on the other side of the wall — her brother, who continues to be unaware of the persistent anger his sister feels for him.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat
#GreyCatsOfMastodon
#Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfMastodon

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-05-11 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-05-11 **Description:** One #Caturday, Malala was seriously focused on something on the other side of the wall — her brother, who continues to be unaware of the persistent an...

One , Malala was seriously focused on something on the other side of the wall — her brother, who continues to be unaware of the persistent anger his sister feels for him.

In Malala’s mind: “He knows what he did!”




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-05-04 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-05-04 **Description:** One #Caturday I took Marjon for a short ride in the car.He really does not like car rides, but this time he was more curious and did not have a panic ...

One #Caturday I took Marjon for a short ride in the car.He really does not like car rides, but this time he was more curious and did not have a panic attack. Maybe there is hope for him in the car.

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-05-04 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-05-04 **Description:** One #Caturday I took Marjon for a short ride in the car. He didn’t start complaining until we had arrived at our destination. He really does not like ...

One I took Marjon for a short ride in the car. He didn’t start complaining until we had arrived at our destination. He really does not like car rides, but this time he was more curious and did not have a panic attack. He looked forward some of the time at the things we were passing. Maybe there is hope for him in the car. The entire ride lasted less than five minutes.




--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-05-03 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-05-03 **Description:** @DecaturNature I’m a big Star Trek fan. I’ve read “Consider Phlebas” but haven’t yet continued the Culture series, even though I liked some of the co...

@DecaturNature I’m a big Star Trek fan. I’ve read “Consider Phlebas” but haven’t yet continued the Culture series, even though I liked some of the concepts. I am trying to determine how TESCREAL intersects and how/where things went wrong. The Humanism in Star Trek should be hitting the TESCREAL people over the head, especially with the cautionary eugenics discussions, but I fear that is getting lost in favor of the shiny and magic tech.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-05-02 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-05-02 **Description:** I'm working through my thoughts on #TESCREAL, very concerned about the loss of #Humanism.I've read "What We Owe the Future" by William MacAskill.I'm a...

I'm working through my thoughts on , very concerned about the loss of .

I've read "What We Owe the Future" by William MacAskill.

I'm a subscriber of the following Podcasts:
* “The Tech Won’t Save Us"
* "Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000”

I follow the (sometimes disturbing) subreddits:
* r/artificial
* r/ArtificialIntelligence
* r/Futurology
* r/singularity

I'm reading “God, Human, Animal, Machine” by Meghan O’Gieblyn.

Does anyone have any other reading/listening suggestions?

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-04-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-04-27 **Description:** One #Caturday, Malala seriously guarded her laundry fort, waiting to pounce on her brother from her secret position. #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #Gr...

One #Caturday, Malala seriously guarded her laundry fort, waiting to pounce on her brother from her secret position.
#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-04-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-04-27 **Description:** One #Caturday, Malala seriously guarded her laundry fort, waiting to pounce on her brother from her secret position.#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #Grey...

One , Malala seriously guarded her laundry fort, waiting to pounce on her brother from her secret position.




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-04-20 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-04-20 **Description:** One #Caturday Marjon was immediately scared of *something*. We couldn't see what it was. The threat wasn't us or "sister" (Malala). We only know that ...

One #Caturday Marjon was immediately scared of *something*. We couldn't see what it was. The threat wasn't us or "sister" (Malala). We only know that he perceived a threat, whether real or imaginary, and went into puffy tail and razorback mode.

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-04-20 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-04-20 **Description:** One #Caturday Marjon leisurely came down the stairs and was immediately scared of *something*. We could not see what it was. We do not know the story....

One Marjon leisurely came down the stairs and was immediately scared of *something*. We could not see what it was. We do not know the story. The threat was not us. The threat was not "sister" (Malala). We only know that he perceived a threat, whether real or imaginary, and went into puffy tail and razorback mode.

(I talked to him to calm him down after this.)




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-04-19 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-04-19 **Description:** As a #ComputerScientist, I believe automation *can* improve things, but some tech company offerings have problematic implications. Facebook shows me “...

As a #ComputerScientist, I believe automation *can* improve things, but some tech company offerings have problematic implications. Facebook shows me “Try a suggested comment”. This isn't predictive text to help me type, it replaces my voice. Let me #KeepMyOwnVoice.

#KeepYourVoice #WriteYourOwnWords

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-04-19 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-04-19 **Description:** As a #ComputerScientist, I believe that #automation *can* make things better for us. Unfortunately, it appears that tech companies are giving up on tr...

As a , I believe that *can* make things better for us. Unfortunately, it appears that tech companies are giving up on trying to solve actual problems and instead are pushing solutions with problematic implications.

For example: has shown me “Try a suggested comment” for posts from friends and family. This is not predictive text to help me type, this is replacing my voice. Am I wrong to want to ?

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-04-13 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-04-13 **Description:** Each #Caturday, Malala reminds us that we may just need a good stretch to work things out. #Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

Each #Caturday, Malala reminds us that we may just need a good stretch to work things out.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-04-13 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-04-13 **Description:** Each #Caturday, Malala reminds us that we may just need a good stretch to work things out.#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat#Catstod...

Each , Malala reminds us that we may just need a good stretch to work things out.



--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-04-12 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-04-12 **Description:** I’ve been on The Internet since 1994. I agree with Kyle Chayka’s sentiment in “Why the Internet isn’t fun anymore.”Since his 2023 essay I’ve realized ...

I’ve been on The Internet since 1994. I agree with Kyle Chayka’s sentiment in “Why the Internet isn’t fun anymore.”

Since his 2023 essay I’ve realized that it’s not just , but most endeavors. devices reduce functionality but keep cameras/microphones on. pesters users about tools. are everywhere. results are worse. The money grab makes everything & everyone less fun.

newyorker.com/culture/infinite

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-04-08 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-04-08 **Description:** So there’s a cool astronomical event happening right now in North America! #eclipse2024 #eclipse #GreatAmericanEclipse

So there’s a cool astronomical event happening right now in North America!

#eclipse2024 #eclipse #GreatAmericanEclipse

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-04-08 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-04-08 **Description:** So there’s a cool astronomical event happening right now in North America!#eclipse2024 #eclipse #GreatAmericanEclipse

So there’s a cool astronomical event happening right now in North America!

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-04-06 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-04-06 **Description:** One #Caturday, 5 years ago on Monday, Malala and Marjon were born. We brought them home two months later. Thanks Felines & Friends New Mexico! #Cat ...

One #Caturday, 5 years ago on Monday, Malala and Marjon were born. We brought them home two months later.

Thanks Felines & Friends New Mexico!

#Cat #Cats
#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-04-06 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-04-06 **Description:** One #Caturday, 5 years ago this Monday, Malala and Marjon were born. We brought them home two months later, where they began their non-stop wrestling ...

One , 5 years ago this Monday, Malala and Marjon were born. We brought them home two months later, where they began their non-stop wrestling match.

Thanks Felines & Friends New Mexico!








--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-03-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-03-30 **Description:** Malala wishes that the Papparazzi would leave her alone for at least one #Caturday. #Cat #Cats #WindowCats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat...

Malala wishes that the Papparazzi would leave her alone for at least one #Caturday.

#Cat #Cats #WindowCats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

(Thanks to @vneblitt.bsky.social for the awesome post text idea that goes with this picture.)

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-03-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-03-30 **Description:** Malala wishes that the Papparazzi would leave her alone for at least one #Caturday.(Thanks to @vneblitt for the awesome post text idea that goes with ...

Malala wishes that the Papparazzi would leave her alone for at least one .

(Thanks to @vneblitt for the awesome post text idea that goes with this picture.)




--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-03-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-03-23 **Description:** One #Caturday when #BlackCat Marjon was less than a year old, he discovered a tree and chose to climb. People have asked “How do you get your cat to ...

One #Caturday when #BlackCat Marjon was less than a year old, he discovered a tree and chose to climb.

People have asked “How do you get your cat to go outside on a leash?” It is not like walking a dog. It is a supervised outdoor session. It requires patience and reassurance. Marjon enjoys it.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-03-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-03-23 **Description:** One #Caturday when Marjon was less than a year old, he discovered a tree and chose to climb.People have often asked "How do you get your cat to go out...

One when Marjon was less than a year old, he discovered a tree and chose to climb.

People have often asked "How do you get your cat to go outside on a leash?” It is not like walking a dog. It is a supervised outdoor session. It requires a lot of patience and reassurance on your part. I started them with 15-minute sessions. Now Marjon gets excited when I grab the leash.




--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-03-20 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-03-20 **Description:** #Birthday #dinner at Hidden Mountain Brewing with @vneblitt! I'm eating their #tacos Al Pastor with a Whiteout Stout!

at Hidden Mountain Brewing with @vneblitt! I'm eating their Al Pastor with a Whiteout Stout!

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-03-20 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-03-20 **Description:** #Churros !

!

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-03-16 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-03-16 **Description:** It is winter in Santa Fe, but the weather does warm up some days. On a warm #Caturday Malala surveyed the grounds of her kingdom and was annoyed that ...

It is winter in Santa Fe, but the weather does warm up some days. On a warm #Caturday Malala surveyed the grounds of her kingdom and was annoyed that I kept asking her questions.

#Cat #Cats
#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-03-16 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-03-16 **Description:** It is winter in Santa Fe, but the weather does warm up some days. On a warm #Caturday Malala surveyed the grounds of her kingdom and was annoyed that ...

It is winter in Santa Fe, but the weather does warm up some days. On a warm Malala surveyed the grounds of her kingdom and was annoyed that I kept asking her questions.



--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-03-16 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-03-16 **Description:** And this #Caturday my picture of an annoyed Malala is now “immortalized” in my Guinness!Thanks Box Car Bar & Grill Santa Fe!#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCa...

And this my picture of an annoyed Malala is now “immortalized” in my Guinness!

Thanks Box Car Bar & Grill Santa Fe!



--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-03-16 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-03-16 **Description:** @APBBlue As a kitten she totally loved it. Unfortunately she had some extensive surgery a few years back and has been reluctant to explore since. I'm ...

@APBBlue As a kitten she totally loved it. Unfortunately she had some extensive surgery a few years back and has been reluctant to explore since. I'm trying to get her back into the fun of it.

Her brother Marjon, attached, runs over to me when I get his leash out on . He really likes it now. I've been taking them both out since they were 6 months old. Each of them gets their own dedicated exploration period.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-03-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-03-10 **Description:** Marjon reminds me that, even though I was sick yesterday, that was not a good excuse for missing our #Caturday post. #Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats

Marjon reminds me that, even though I was sick yesterday, that was not a good excuse for missing our #Caturday post.

#Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-03-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-03-10 **Description:** Marjon reminds me that, even though I was sick yesterday, that was not a good excuse for missing our #Caturday post.#Cat #Cats#BlackCat #BlackCats #Bl...

Marjon reminds me that, even though I was sick yesterday, that was not a good excuse for missing our post.





--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-03-02 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-03-02 **Description:** Well done Denis Villeneuve, cast, and crew. Well done.

Well done Denis Villeneuve, cast, and crew. Well done.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-03-02 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-03-02 **Description:** This #Caturday, Malala asks “When are we making the bed?” She loves making the bed. She considers it her job to hold down the fitted sheet while we s...

This #Caturday, Malala asks “When are we making the bed?”

She loves making the bed. She considers it her job to hold down the fitted sheet while we secure it. After that, it’s “parachute time” with sheets and blankets where she pokes her feet up and holds the sheet/blanket in the air above her.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-03-02 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-03-02 **Description:** Well done Denis Villeneuve, cast, and crew. Well done.#dune #dune2 #duneparttwo #DunePart2

Well done Denis Villeneuve, cast, and crew. Well done.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-03-02 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-03-02 **Description:** This #Caturday, Malala asks “When are we making the bed?”She loves making the bed. She considers it her job to hold down the fitted sheet while we sec...

This , Malala asks “When are we making the bed?”

She loves making the bed. She considers it her job to hold down the fitted sheet while we secure it. After that, it’s “parachute time” with sheets and blankets where she pokes her feet up and holds the sheet/blanket in the air above her.



--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-02-25 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-02-25 **Description:** After 481 hours, I finished my first story on Baldurs Gate 3. I have played nothing like this. I now understand the emotional attachment others have t...

After 481 hours, I finished my first story on Baldurs Gate 3. I have played nothing like this. I now understand the emotional attachment others have to these fictional characters. Though I can play it again with a different character it will never be the same story. Thank you Larian!

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-02-25 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-02-25 **Description:** After 481 hours, I just finished my first story on #BaldursGate3. While working on my #PhD, I played the new Hitman, but not more complex #VideoGames,...

After 481 hours, I just finished my first story on . While working on my , I played the new Hitman, but not more complex , and nothing like this. I have never played a game like . I now understand the emotional attachment others have to these fictional characters. I like how well Larian replicated most aspects of the rule system.

Though I can play it again with another character it won’t be the same story. Thank you Larian for the experience!

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-02-24 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-02-24 **Description:** One Caturday, Marjon the black cat wanted to cuddle with Malala the grey tabby. She allowed this at first, but started reconsidering this arrangement ...

One Caturday, Marjon the black cat wanted to cuddle with Malala the grey tabby. She allowed this at first, but started reconsidering this arrangement when Marjon wanted to lay on her legs.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-02-24 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-02-24 **Description:** One #Caturday, Marjon wanted to cuddle with Malala. She allowed this at first, but started reconsidering this arrangement when Marjon wanted to lay on...

One , Marjon wanted to cuddle with Malala. She allowed this at first, but started reconsidering this arrangement when Marjon wanted to lay on her legs.







--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-02-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-02-17 **Description:** One Caturday, the grey tabby cat Malala had to explain to black cat Marjon that the grey cat head basket is hers. She would not be sharing. She will h...

One Caturday, the grey tabby cat Malala had to explain to black cat Marjon that the grey cat head basket is hers. She would not be sharing. She will hate him with the anger of the fire of a thousands suns for this incursion.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-02-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-02-17 **Description:** One #Caturday, Malala had to explain to Marjon that the grey cat head basket is hers. She would not be sharing. She will hate him with the anger of th...

One , Malala had to explain to Marjon that the grey cat head basket is hers. She would not be sharing. She will hate him with the anger of the fire of a thousands suns for this incursion.







--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-02-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-02-10 **Description:** One Caturday, Marjon contemplated life in Malala’s grey cat head basket. Is this where he wanted to be at this age? What is left to do? What is the me...

One Caturday, Marjon contemplated life in Malala’s grey cat head basket. Is this where he wanted to be at this age? What is left to do? What is the meaning behind it all? What was that sound he just heard? Why does Malala get to play with that toy?

Thanks to my Mom for the baskets.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-02-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-02-10 **Description:** One #Caturday, Marjon contemplated life in Malala’s grey cat head basket. Is this where he wanted to be at this age? What is left to do? What is the m...

One , Marjon contemplated life in Malala’s grey cat head basket. Is this where he wanted to be at this age? What is left to do? What is the meaning behind it all? What was that sound he just heard? Why does Malala get to play with that toy?

Thanks to my Mom for the appropriately-colored cat baskets.





--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-02-04 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-02-04 **Description:** No, Malala did not miss Caturday yesterday. Every day is Caturday.

No, Malala did not miss Caturday yesterday. Every day is Caturday.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-02-04 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-02-04 **Description:** No, Malala did not miss #Caturday yesterday. Every day is Caturday.#Cat #Cats#GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat #GreyCatsOfMastodon#Catstodon ...

No, Malala did not miss yesterday. Every day is Caturday.



--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-01-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-01-27 **Description:** One Caturday Marjon wanted me to get my own laundry basket. "This one's taken.”

One Caturday Marjon wanted me to get my own laundry basket. "This one's taken.”

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-01-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-01-27 **Description:** One #Caturday Marjon wanted me to get my own laundry basket. "This one's taken.”#Cat #Cats#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCatsOfMastodon#Win...

One Marjon wanted me to get my own laundry basket. "This one's taken.”





--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-01-21 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-01-21 **Description:** My wife and I are viewing the cool MOCs (My Own Creations) at the New Mexico/Albuquerque Brick Convention.https://www.brickconvention.com/newmexico#LE...

My wife and I are viewing the cool MOCs (My Own Creations) at the New Mexico/Albuquerque Brick Convention.

brickconvention.com/newmexico

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-01-20 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-01-20 **Description:** This past Caturday, Malala the grey cat was “concerned” about the red light on our Roomba. Because the cleaning robot moves on its own, Malala does no...

This past Caturday, Malala the grey cat was “concerned” about the red light on our Roomba. Because the cleaning robot moves on its own, Malala does not trust it and must monitor its cleaning tasks. The Roomba was in a state of distress (red light) because it had swallowed her toy.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-01-20 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-01-20 **Description:** This past #Caturday, Malala was “concerned” about the red light on our Roomba. Because the cleaning robot moves on its own, Malala does not trust it a...

This past , Malala was “concerned” about the red light on our Roomba. Because the cleaning robot moves on its own, Malala does not trust it and must monitor its cleaning tasks. The Roomba was in a state of distress (red light) because it had swallowed her toy.



--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-01-13 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-01-13 **Description:** At a Caturday in our old neighborhood, the black cat Marjon bravely patrolled our neighborhood for threats.

At a Caturday in our old neighborhood, the black cat Marjon bravely patrolled our neighborhood for threats.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-01-13 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-01-13 **Description:** At a #Caturday in our old neighborhood, Marjon bravely patrolled his neighborhood for threats.#Cat #Cats#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCats...

At a in our old neighborhood, Marjon bravely patrolled his neighborhood for threats.





--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-01-12 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-01-12 **Description:** Starting Monday, I won't be a Postdoc Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. I will be a SCIENTIST. “”” Dear Shawn Jones, We are pleased to offe...

Starting Monday, I won't be a Postdoc Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

I will be a SCIENTIST.

“””
Dear Shawn Jones,

We are pleased to offer you the position of Scientist 2 in the Information Sciences Group (CCS-3). This represents a conversion of your student/postdoc appointment.
“””

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-01-12 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-01-12 **Description:** Starting Monday, I will no longer be a Postdoc Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory.I will be a SCIENTIST.“””Dear Shawn Jones,We are pleased to of...

Starting Monday, I will no longer be a Postdoc Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

I will be a SCIENTIST.

“””
Dear Shawn Jones,

We are pleased to offer you the position of Scientist 2 in the Information Sciences Group (CCS-3). This represents a conversion of your student/postdoc appointment.
“””

--- ## Bluesky Post 2024-01-06 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-01-06 **Description:** One Caturday I was working out a scoring function on the whiteboard and the grey cat Malala had feedback. She is disappointed that she was not made co...

One Caturday I was working out a scoring function on the whiteboard and the grey cat Malala had feedback. She is disappointed that she was not made co-author on the resulting paper.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2024-01-06 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2024-01-06 **Description:** One #Caturday I was working out a scoring function on the whiteboard and Malala had feedback. She is disappointed that she was not made co-author on t...

One I was working out a scoring function on the whiteboard and Malala had feedback. She is disappointed that she was not made co-author on the resulting paper.



--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-12-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-12-30 **Description:** Before my current cats, there was Neo. For this Throwback Caturday, I remember 16 years with my second pet after moving out of my parents’ place. Neo ...

Before my current cats, there was Neo. For this Throwback Caturday, I remember 16 years with my second pet after moving out of my parents’ place. Neo was a black domestic shorthair cat who was my best bud. Neo was extremely attentive, friendly, playful, and loving. I miss him a lot.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-12-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-12-30 **Description:** Before my current cats, there was Neo. For this #Throwback #Caturday, I remember 16 years with my second pet after moving out of my parents’ place. Ne...

Before my current cats, there was Neo. For this , I remember 16 years with my second pet after moving out of my parents’ place. Neo was a black domestic shorthair cat who was my best bud. Neo was extremely attentive, friendly, playful, and loving. I miss him a lot.


--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-12-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-12-23 **Description:** Before my current cats, there was Phoebe. For this Throwback Caturday, I remember 16 years with my first pet. Phoebe was a grey and white DSH who rule...

Before my current cats, there was Phoebe. For this Throwback Caturday, I remember 16 years with my first pet. Phoebe was a grey and white DSH who ruled her home with an iron fist. She scratched me once: when I brought home another cat, Neo (to be featured next week). I really miss her.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-12-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-12-23 **Description:** Before my current cats, there was Phoebe. For this #Throwback #Caturday, I remember 16 years with my first pet after moving out of my parents’ place. ...

Before my current cats, there was Phoebe. For this , I remember 16 years with my first pet after moving out of my parents’ place. Phoebe was a grey and white domestic shorthair who ruled over her home with an iron fist. She scratched me once: when I brought home another cat, Neo (to be featured next week). I really miss Phoebe.





--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-12-16 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-12-16 **Description:** On a Caturday long ago, the grey cat Malala and the black cat Marjon had a confab about what the humans were doing outside on the deck.

On a Caturday long ago, the grey cat Malala and the black cat Marjon had a confab about what the humans were doing outside on the deck.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-12-16 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-12-16 **Description:** On a #Caturday long ago, Malala and Marjon had a confab about what the humans were doing outside on the deck.#Catstodon #CatsOfFediversekCats #BlackCa...

On a long ago, Malala and Marjon had a confab about what the humans were doing outside on the deck.






--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-12-15 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-12-15 **Description:** I am at a #career crossroads. I have two paths:1. I always apply for #funding, but can choose my work, and can #publish my #research publicly. It’s ri...

I am at a crossroads. I have two paths:

1. I always apply for , but can choose my work, and can my publicly. It’s risky because I might not find sufficient funding.

2. I have ample funding but research is restricted to what the organization wants at the moment. is secondary and may not be possible.

I suspect I’m not the only facing decisions like this. Any thoughts/suggestions?

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-12-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-12-10 **Description:** @bradthornborrow @EricCarroll @jtk I went with Porkbun. It’s been great.

@bradthornborrow @EricCarroll @jtk I went with Porkbun. It’s been great.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-12-09 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-12-09 **Description:** On one Caturday last year, Malala and Marjon had notes on our laundry process.

On one Caturday last year, Malala and Marjon had notes on our laundry process.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-12-09 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-12-09 **Description:** On one #Caturday last year, Malala and Marjon had notes on our laundry process.#Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat#GreyCatsOfMastodo...

On one last year, Malala and Marjon had notes on our laundry process.


--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-12-09 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-12-09 **Description:** I hate posting #Caturday from iOS because it always autocorrects Marjon’s name to “Marion”.

I hate posting from iOS because it always autocorrects Marjon’s name to “Marion”.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-12-02 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-12-02 **Description:** I was putting away laundry one Caturday and removed a drawer from a plastic white cabinet. When I tried to put the drawer back, I discovered that Marj...

I was putting away laundry one Caturday and removed a drawer from a plastic white cabinet. When I tried to put the drawer back, I discovered that Marjon required the spot for his adventures.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-12-02 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-12-02 **Description:** I was putting away laundry one #Caturday and removed a drawer from a plastic white cabinet. When I tried to put the drawer back, I discovered that Mar...

I was putting away laundry one and removed a drawer from a plastic white cabinet. When I tried to put the drawer back, I discovered that Marjon required the spot for his adventures.



--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-12-01 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-12-01 **Description:** WashPost @taylorlorenz “News outlets turn to Reddit as Musk’s X descends into chaos”“Rachel Karten, a social media consultant in Los Angeles, said she...

WashPost @taylorlorenz “News outlets turn to Reddit as Musk’s X descends into chaos”

“Rachel Karten, a social media consultant in Los Angeles, said she believes that it’s better for media companies, and all brands, to simply stay away from subreddits they do not personally operate. Each subreddit has its own norms, history and cast of personalities, and media companies participating can make it appear that they’re giving their approval.”

washingtonpost.com/technology/

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-11-29 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-29 **Description:** Thanks to those who helped with my #DomainRegistrar search. I wanted to act before #GoogleDomains transferred my #Domains to #Squarespace.After a revi...

Thanks to those who helped with my search. I wanted to act before transferred my to .

After a review of suggested companies’ histories, websites, and pricing, I’ve started transferring my domains to . has made it fast to transfer domains out of Google Domains. The transfer was done in an hour, unlike the 7+ days that register.com put me through in 2021.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-11-29 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-29 **Description:** Again thanks for #DomainRegistrar #TechHelp #Recommendations from:@Lesley @shuLhan @ipstenu @jeroenrotty@toot.re @rmbolger @technicat @steris @croc @a...

Again thanks for from:
@Lesley
@shuLhan
@ipstenu
@jeroenrotty@toot.re
@rmbolger
@technicat
@steris
@croc
@aohorodnyk
@esg
@jtk
@EricCarroll
@bitsgalore

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-11-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-28 **Description:** I appreciate all of the #Recommendations for superior #DomainRegistrar companies with trickery-free UIs. I have some research to do before #GoogleDoma...

I appreciate all of the for superior companies with trickery-free UIs. I have some research to do before transfers my to .

Much thanks to:
@Lesley
@shuLhan
@ipstenu
@jeroenrotty@toot.re
@rmbolger
@technicat
@steris
@croc
@aohorodnyk
@esg

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-11-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-28 **Description:** @EricCarroll @jtk Thanks for the heads up. I found his blog, his crypto ties, and his declaration to create what I'm guessing is an alt-right media co...

@EricCarroll @jtk Thanks for the heads up. I found his blog, his crypto ties, and his declaration to create what I'm guessing is an alt-right media company.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-11-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-27 **Description:** Great responses! This is what I love about #Mastodon.@shuLhan — Thanks for a vote against #Squarespace.On the positive side, thanks for #recommendatio...

Great responses! This is what I love about .

@shuLhan — Thanks for a vote against .

On the positive side, thanks for of:
* from @aohorodnyk
* name.com from @Lesley
* hover.com from @ipstenu

Does anyone else have a for a whose UI lets me make changes to my without being bombarded by (or outright failures) in the process?

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-11-26 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-26 **Description:** Years ago I switched my #DomainRegistrar from register.com to #Google #Domains. I liked the Google Domains UI. It let me get in, make changes, and get...

Years ago I switched my from register.com to . I liked the Google Domains UI. It let me get in, make changes, and get out without being bombarded by .

I should’ve known Google would kill a decent product.

They're selling each to . Does anyone have experience with Squarespace? Is their interface as clutter/ad free? Should I transfer to instead?

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-11-25 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-25 **Description:** During the Holidays, Malala the grey cat would like to remind you to get some rest, relax, and Caturday.

During the Holidays, Malala the grey cat would like to remind you to get some rest, relax, and Caturday.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-11-25 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-25 **Description:** During the Holidays, Malala would like to remind you to get some rest, relax, and #Caturday.#Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat#Grey...

During the Holidays, Malala would like to remind you to get some rest, relax, and .


--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-11-18 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-18 **Description:** One Caturday, the black cat Marjon visited the Petco to say hi to his public and check out the sales on food and toys.

One Caturday, the black cat Marjon visited the Petco to say hi to his public and check out the sales on food and toys.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-11-18 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-18 **Description:** One #Caturday, Marjon visited the Petco to say hi to his public and check out the sales on food and toys.#Cat #Cats#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule...

One , Marjon visited the Petco to say hi to his public and check out the sales on food and toys.



--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-11-13 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-13 **Description:** Getting to 495 followers on Mastodon involved evaluating the culture while evaluating technical side of things. There was much up front much technical...

Getting to 495 followers on Mastodon involved evaluating the culture while evaluating technical side of things. There was much up front much technical evaluation (e.g., the default Mastodon client isn't as good as Ivory or Ice Cubes), but once I got into the groove it worked well.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-11-13 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-13 **Description:** Bluesky growth has been slower, partially because I’ve only been able to use it since @ibnesayeed.bsky.social sent me an invite (Thanks Sawood!). Blue...

Bluesky growth has been slower, partially because I’ve only been able to use it since @ibnesayeed.bsky.social sent me an invite (Thanks Sawood!). Bluesky just added lists, which will make this service more usable to me. It also lets you choose your feeds which is nice. I’m still figuring it out.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-11-13 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-13 **Description:** We’ve also recently had a recent influx of people like @clancyny.bsky.social who have made it seem more like a replacement for ye olde Twitter. She's ...

We’ve also recently had a recent influx of people like @clancyny.bsky.social who have made it seem more like a replacement for ye olde Twitter. She's shared some info on the AT protocol, which has some neat features.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-11-13 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-13 **Description:** Bluesky has some features that I really like -- e.g., your user name can be your domain name (see my user name). It also seems to have some decent mod...

Bluesky has some features that I really like -- e.g., your user name can be your domain name (see my user name). It also seems to have some decent moderation tools as well. That people like @tressiemcphd.bsky.social and @roxanegay.bsky.social have come over was another big selling point for me.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-11-13 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-13 **Description:** One thing I do miss from Mastodon, though, is the ability to edit and correct posts. The grammar mistakes in this thread alone make me wish I would ha...

One thing I do miss from Mastodon, though, is the ability to edit and correct posts. The grammar mistakes in this thread alone make me wish I would have slowed down my responses and planned them out better. :-)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-11-11 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-11 **Description:** Twitter shadowbanned my PhD advisor @phonedudemln.bsky.social. Web archiving is one of our research areas. He had tweeted about how the US Speaker of ...

Twitter shadowbanned my PhD advisor @phonedudemln.bsky.social. Web archiving is one of our research areas. He had tweeted about how the US Speaker of the House’s wife took down her anti-LGBTQ+ website, but web archives had copies. Please repost to raise awareness of Twitter's academic censorship.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-11-11 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-11 **Description:** One #Caturday, Malala was ready to put on the oven mitts and start the cookin’.#Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat#GreyCatsOfMastodo...

One , Malala was ready to put on the oven mitts and start the cookin’.


--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-11-09 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-09 **Description:** #Twitter just #shadowbanned my PhD advisor Michael L. Nelson. He was covering how the wife of the US Speaker of the House had an anti-#LBTQ+ website a...

just my PhD advisor Michael L. Nelson. He was covering how the wife of the US Speaker of the House had an anti-+ website and just took it down, but it’s still in . Due to the , we can view the tweets by URL, but cannot view the whole thread. He’s asked us to him in hopes of: (1) getting the word out about the shadowban, and (2) overcoming the shadowban (unlikely).

The URLs: gist.github.com/phonedude/e497

--- ## DeepPatent2: A Large-Scale Benchmarking Corpus for Technical Drawing Understanding **Type:** Portfolio Item **Date:** 2023-11-07 **Description:** Recent advances in computer vision (CV) and natural language processing have been driven by exploiting big data on practical applications. However, thes... Recent advances in computer vision (CV) and natural language processing have been driven by exploiting big data on practical applications. However, these research fields are still limited by the sheer volume, versatility, and diversity of the available datasets. CV tasks, such as image captioning, which has primarily been carried out on natural images, still struggle to produce accurate and meaningful captions on sketched images often included in scientific and technical documents. The advancement of other tasks such as 3D reconstruction from 2D images requires larger datasets with multiple viewpoints. We introduce DeepPatent2, a large-scale dataset, providing more than 2.7 million technical drawings with 132,890 object names and 22,394 viewpoints extracted from 14 years of US design patent documents. We demonstrate the usefulness of DeepPatent2 with conceptual captioning. We further provide the potential usefulness of our dataset to facilitate other research areas such as 3D image reconstruction and image retrieval. --- ## Bluesky Post 2023-11-04 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-04 **Description:** This Caturday, Marjon would like to remind you that a sideways box lid is still a box, even if he splits it while making his point.

This Caturday, Marjon would like to remind you that a sideways box lid is still a box, even if he splits it while making his point.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-11-04 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-11-04 **Description:** This #Caturday, Marjon would like to remind you that a sideways box lid is still a box, even if he splits it while making his point.#Cat #Cats #BlackC...

This , Marjon would like to remind you that a sideways box lid is still a box, even if he splits it while making his point.


--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-10-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-10-28 **Description:** On Caturday, Malala watches her territory from the second-floor wall, sizing up all who seek to intrude on her high floor. (I still get uncomfortable...

On Caturday, Malala watches her territory from the second-floor wall, sizing up all who seek to intrude on her high floor.

(I still get uncomfortable with her doing this because I’m afraid she’ll hurt herself.)

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-10-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-10-28 **Description:** On #Caturday, Malala watches her territory from the second-floor wall, sizing up all who seek to intrude on her high floor.(I still get uncomfortable ...

On , Malala watches her territory from the second-floor wall, sizing up all who seek to intrude on her high floor.

(I still get uncomfortable with her doing this because I’m afraid she’ll hurt herself.)


--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-10-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-10-28 **Description:** #EarlyVoting is one of the things I really like about #SantaFe #NewMexico.I consider it my duty to vote in every election.#VoteOften #VoteEarly #Vote ...

is one of the things I really like about .

I consider it my duty to vote in every election.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-10-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-10-27 **Description:** Marjon reminds you to celebrate National Black Cat Day responsibly.

Marjon reminds you to celebrate National Black Cat Day responsibly.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-10-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-10-27 **Description:** Marjon reminds you to celebrate #NationalBlackCatDay responsibly.#Cat #Cats#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #CatsOf...

Marjon reminds you to celebrate responsibly.


--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-10-21 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-10-21 **Description:** Marjon receives secrets from his buddy Elbert on Caturday.

Marjon receives secrets from his buddy Elbert on Caturday.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-10-21 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-10-21 **Description:** Marjon receives secrets from his buddy Elbert on #Caturday.#Cat #Cats#BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCatsOfMastodon#Catstodon #CatsOfFediver...

Marjon receives secrets from his buddy Elbert on .



--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-10-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-10-17 **Description:** Santa Fe… nights…

Santa Fe… nights…

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-10-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-10-17 **Description:** Santa Fe… nights…#SantaFe #NewMexico #sunset

Santa Fe… nights…

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-10-14 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-10-14 **Description:** This Caturday, Malala the grey tabby cat will be holding office hours on the topics of skritches, double boxes, cats in society, and what her brother ...

This Caturday, Malala the grey tabby cat will be holding office hours on the topics of skritches, double boxes, cats in society, and what her brother can do to improve his service to her.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-10-14 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-10-14 **Description:** My wife got us tickets for a Sky Railway train from Santa Fe to somewhere near Lamy to view the annular #eclipse.They gave us special glasses and filt...

My wife got us tickets for a Sky Railway train from Santa Fe to somewhere near Lamy to view the annular .

They gave us special glasses and filters/apps for our phones.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-10-14 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-10-14 **Description:** This #Caturday, Malala will be holding office hours on the topics of skritches, double boxes, cats in society, and what her brother can do to improve ...

This , Malala will be holding office hours on the topics of skritches, double boxes, cats in society, and what her brother can do to improve his service to her.


--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-10-11 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-10-11 **Description:** @AAKL@noc.social Thanks. I needed a sanity check.

@AAKL@noc.social Thanks. I needed a sanity check.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-10-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-10-10 **Description:** I have a potentially #controversial #Mastodon question that I’ve been wondering about for a while. It’s about the generic home #timeline #feed and it...

I have a potentially question that I’ve been wondering about for a while. It’s about the generic home and its simple .

For those who do not use tools to curate their home timeline, I understand that my post shows up in their timeline based on its datetime. If I post something and then a bunch of additional posts, am I burying my “real” post?

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-10-07 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-10-07 **Description:** One #Caturday Malala and Marjon joined forces to watch another cat outside. I imagine that they had different goals in mind. Marjon wants to discover ...

One #Caturday Malala and Marjon joined forces to watch another cat outside. I imagine that they had different goals in mind. Marjon wants to discover a new friend. Malala wants to study and eliminate threats to her regime.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-10-07 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-10-07 **Description:** One #Caturday Malala and Marjon joined forces to watch another cat outside. I imagine that they had different goals in mind. Marjon wants to discover ...

One Malala and Marjon joined forces to watch another cat outside. I imagine that they had different goals in mind. Marjon wants to discover a new friend. Malala wants to study and eliminate threats to her regime.







--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-30 **Description:** In Zadar, Croatia, I may not have Malala or Marjon with me, but there is still #Caturday.#Cat #Cats #Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfMastodon#Travel...

In Zadar, Croatia, I may not have Malala or Marjon with me, but there is still .


--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-29 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-29 **Description:** At #TPDL2023 right now, @martinklein is presenting “It's Not Just GitHub: Identifying Data and Software Sources Included in Publications” The authors ...

At right now, @martinklein is presenting “It's Not Just GitHub: Identifying Data and Software Sources Included in Publications”

The authors trained a classifier to classify open-access data and software (OADS) URLs from research papers as dataset or code. Archivists can then take these URLs and preserve the referenced datasets and code for reproducibility.

Paper: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-4384
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2307.14469

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-09-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-28 **Description:** Yesterday at TPDL 2023 Gianmaria Silvello presented“How to Cite a Web Ranking and Make it #FAIR” Silvello presented a prototype that captures search ...

Yesterday at TPDL 2023 Gianmaria Silvello presented“How to Cite a Web Ranking and Make it #FAIR”

Silvello presented a prototype that captures search engine results in a human- and machine-readable format and posts it to Zenodo for DOI citing.

Ref: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-09-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-28 **Description:** Yesterday at TPDL 2023 Herman Kroll and Mirjam Cuper presented “Aspect-Driven Structuring of Historical Dutch Newspaper Archives” The authors discuss...

Yesterday at TPDL 2023 Herman Kroll and Mirjam Cuper presented “Aspect-Driven Structuring of Historical Dutch Newspaper Archives”

The authors discussed the challenges work with a corpus with unreliable OCR, inconsitent metadata, and the licensing restrictions.

Ref: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-09-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-28 **Description:** Beatrice Alex is giving the 2nd TPDL 2023 keynote “AI language technologies and digital collections: the need for interdisciplinary communication and ...

Beatrice Alex is giving the 2nd TPDL 2023 keynote “AI language technologies and digital collections: the need for interdisciplinary communication and co-design and training” - How can we invite AI into the archive?

* www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-b...
* www.ltg.ed.ac.uk
* www.ed.ac.uk/usher/clinic...

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-09-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-28 **Description:** Yesterday at TPDL 2023 David Pride presented “CORE-GPT: Combining Open Access research and large language models for credible, trustworthy question an...

Yesterday at TPDL 2023 David Pride presented “CORE-GPT: Combining Open Access research and large language models for credible, trustworthy question answering”

Pride’s prototype provides answers that combine search results with GPT’s summarization abilities.

Ref: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-28 **Description:** #TPDL2023 @hkroll and Mirjam Cuper from the Institute for Information Systems presented “Aspect-Driven Structuring of Historical Dutch Newspaper Archi...

@hkroll and Mirjam Cuper from the Institute for Information Systems presented “Aspect-Driven Structuring of Historical Dutch Newspaper Archives”

The authors discussed the challenges of automatically organizing and structuring content in a corpus when the is unreliable, the might be inconsistent, and the restrictions dictate who can see the content.

Ref: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-4384

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-28 **Description:** Yesterday at #TPDL2023 Gianmaria Silvello presented“How to Cite a Web Ranking and Make it #FAIR”Researchers often need to cite #SearchEngine results. ...

Yesterday at Gianmaria Silvello presented“How to Cite a Web Ranking and Make it ”

Researchers often need to cite results. Unfortunately, search engines change their algorithms and their index all the time. Alessandro Lotta and Gianmaria Silvello presented a that captures this ranking in a human- and machine-readable and posts it to for citing with a .

My suggestion: include and

Ref: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-4384

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-28 **Description:** Yesterday at #TPDL2023 David Pride presented “CORE-GPT: Combining Open Access research and large language models for credible, trustworthy question an...

Yesterday at David Pride presented “CORE-GPT: Combining Open Access research and large language models for credible, trustworthy question answering”

Rather than question/answering, Pride’s team combines the dataset with to create prompts that leverage the strength of combining results with the ’s () abilities to produce an answer to a user’s question including citations.

Ref: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-4384

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-28 **Description:** Beatrice Alex is giving the second #TPDL2023 keynote “AI language technologies and digital collections: the need for interdisciplinary communication a...

Beatrice Alex is giving the second keynote “AI language technologies and digital collections: the need for interdisciplinary communication and co-design and training”

* How can we invite into the ?
* AI can provide a lot of positive opportunities.
* To improve its application, we need collaborations going forward.
* AI needs to be taught early in education.

Ref:
* ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-beatrice-a
* ltg.ed.ac.uk
* ed.ac.uk/usher/clinical-natura

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-09-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-27 **Description:** Zvjezdan Penezić, Marijana Tomić, and Gianmaria Silvello are kicking off TPDL 2023! Acceptance: * 33% of full papers * 18% of full papers were accept...

Zvjezdan Penezić, Marijana Tomić, and Gianmaria Silvello are kicking off TPDL 2023!

Acceptance:
* 33% of full papers
* 18% of full papers were accepted as short papers
* 40% short papers

Proceedings are available now: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-27 **Description:** Zvjezdan Penezić, Marijana Tomić, and Gianmaria Silvello are kicking off #TPDL2023!64 submissions* 39 full papers* 25 short papersAcceptance:* 33% of ...

Zvjezdan Penezić, Marijana Tomić, and Gianmaria Silvello are kicking off !

64 submissions
* 39 full papers
* 25 short papers

Acceptance:
* 33% of full papers were accepted for oral presentation
* 18% of full papers were accepted as short papers
* 10 short papers were accepted for oral presentation (40%)

Authors from 3 best papers from the International Journal of Digital Libraries were also invited to present.

Proceedings are available now: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-4384

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-27 **Description:** Laura Hollink is giving the first #TPDL2023 keynote “Responsible AI & GLAM: challenges and opportunities” :* defining “diversity” and “fairness” for #...

Laura Hollink is giving the first keynote “Responsible AI & GLAM: challenges and opportunities” :
* defining “diversity” and “fairness” for
* producer fairness vs. user-fairness
* treatment equality vs. counterfactional fairness
* popularity bias in recommender systems
* publication country bias in datasets
* identifying contentious terminology

More information:
* cwi.nl/en/groups/human-centere
* cultural-ai.nl
* aim4dem.nl

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-09-26 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-26 **Description:** Zadar, Croatia is pretty. The TPDL 2023 conference starts later today. I cannot wait. (I also have jet lag, but I’m fighting through it.) Conference...

Zadar, Croatia is pretty. The TPDL 2023 conference starts later today. I cannot wait.

(I also have jet lag, but I’m fighting through it.)

Conference website: tpdl2023.dei.unipd.it/index.html

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-26 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-26 **Description:** Zadar, Croatia is pretty. The #TPDL2023 conference starts later today. I cannot wait.(I also have jet lag, but I’m fighting through it.)Conference web...

Zadar, Croatia is pretty. The conference starts later today. I cannot wait.

(I also have jet lag, but I’m fighting through it.)

Conference website: tpdl2023.dei.unipd.it/index.ht

--- ## Synthesizing Web Archive Collections Into Big Data: Lessons From Mining Data From Web Archives **Type:** Portfolio Item **Date:** 2023-09-26 **Description:** Web archives are sources of big data. When presenting human visitors with archived web pages, or mementos, web archives often apply user interface augme... Web archives are sources of big data. When presenting human visitors with archived web pages, or mementos, web archives often apply user interface augmentations to assist them. Unfortunately, these augmentations present challenges for natural language processing, computer vision, and machine learning methods. Thus, big data researchers must apply special techniques to web archives when acquiring mementos. This paper details these techniques so that future projects can more easily create datasets and conduct research. We review 22 web archives and discuss the methods needed to re-synthesize a memento to something close to its original capture without augmentations. We close by discussing options for improving the state of memento sharing for big data efforts. --- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-24 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-24 **Description:** When we create a #Mastodon #thread, do we post the thread as:1 2 3 4(i.e. every post is a child of the previous post)- OR -1 2...

When we create a , do we post the thread as:

1
2
3
4

(i.e. every post is a child of the previous post)

- OR -

1
2
3
4

(i.e., every post is a child of the first post, but temporally posted in order)

I’ve tried both and I’m concerned that some folks don’t see the whole thread when they view post 1. I also assume it varies per client.

Thanks in advance.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-24 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-24 **Description:** @Dianora@octodon.social Marjon thanks you for agreeing that he is, of course, adorable. Malala will be taking petitions from her subjects soon — stay ...

@Dianora@octodon.social Marjon thanks you for agreeing that he is, of course, adorable. Malala will be taking petitions from her subjects soon — stay tuned. 😂

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-24 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-24 **Description:** @notroot @kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social Yup. With social media we have two forces: normal “feature” lock-in and “social” lock-in. ...

@notroot @kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social Yup. With social media we have two forces: normal “feature” lock-in and “social” lock-in. I’m not sure how one defeats that without the whole platform going down in flames at once.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-09-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-23 **Description:** This Caturday, the black cat Marjon wants to crash our neighbors’ cookout.

This Caturday, the black cat Marjon wants to crash our neighbors’ cookout.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-23 **Description:** My wife and I have been setting up each new #iPhone15 this evening. Sometimes a new phone requires re-authenticating with various apps.She proclaimed:...

My wife and I have been setting up each new this evening. Sometimes a new phone requires re-authenticating with various apps.

She proclaimed:
“ worked. worked. worked. worked. worked. And worked.”

But for , the 2FA would not accept her authenticator's code. After about 5 minutes of repeatedly trying, she exclaimed:
“I give up. Maybe I don't need to look at Twitter.”

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-23 **Description:** This #Caturday, Marjon wants to crash our neighbors’ cookout.#Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #CatsOfFed...

This , Marjon wants to crash our neighbors’ cookout.



--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-23 **Description:** @Dianora@octodon.social One of the things my old research group studies is social media. I think they’re gonna be there till the end. I log in once a ...

@Dianora@octodon.social One of the things my old research group studies is social media. I think they’re gonna be there till the end. I log in once a week to give them retweets.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-23 **Description:** @kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social A lot of it is the actual social network (not the platform). Many people can’t find that same group...

@kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social A lot of it is the actual social network (not the platform). Many people can’t find that same group on other platforms. It also gets more complicated for certain groups (e.g., Black Twitter, Librarian Twitter) who don’t have a place to run to as a whole unit.

I am also squatting on my name. My pinned post states that I will not be tweeting that much any more. I haven’t made a real post (not a retweet) since I pinned that post.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-23 **Description:** @kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social My slow #TwitterMigration:Part 0: #Musk took over the platform in November 2022 and fired so many p...

@kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social My slow :

Part 0: took over the platform in November 2022 and fired so many people — I started trying to get my followers to join me on because I thought Twitter would physically break down soon.

Part 1: In December 2022, Musk suspended ’s Twitter account. We rallied to support Mastodon, and, frankly, any other platform. Musk updated Twitter’s URL shortener so that Mastodon links were blocked.

Ref:
twitter.com/shawnmjones/status

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-23 **Description:** @kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social #TwitterMigration Part 2: Also in Dec 2022, #Musk banned accounts linking to other social media pla...

@kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social Part 2: Also in Dec 2022, banned accounts linking to other social media platforms (like ). I resigned that my account would be banned soon. When Musk updated the rules to remove this change, I pointed out that remembers!

I promoted a project from @internetarchive that preserved the changes to the rules and helped people preserve their tweets.

Refs:
twitter.com/shawnmjones/status
twitter.com/shawnmjones/status
twitter.com/shawnmjones/status

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-23 **Description:** @kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social #TwitterMigration Part 3: In February 2023, #Musk announced changes to the #Twitter #API that threa...

@kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social Part 3: In February 2023, announced changes to the that threatened many research projects, content creators, and 3rd party applications. I had a that posted news summaries from and it eventually stopped working due to these changes.

Refs:
twitter.com/shawnmjones/status

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-23 **Description:** @kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social Part 4: Also in February 2023, #Musk messed within limits on how many #Tweets a user could post, in...

@kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social Part 4: Also in February 2023, messed within limits on how many a user could post, including retweets and . I stopped tweeting because I didn’t want to exceed my quota.

Part 5: In May/June 2023, I returned to to promote and , conferences for which I worked as publicity chair. I joint-posted to . This kept me on Twitter — the people still there.

Refs:
twitter.com/shawnmjones/status
twitter.com/search?q=From%3A%2

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-23 **Description:** @kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social #TwitterMigration Part 6: In July 2023, I promoted a paper that I had (finally) published in Trans...

@kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social Part 6: In July 2023, I promoted a paper that I had (finally) published in Transactions of the . After this, changed the name of the platform to and I posted my “taking a break from ” post, which has been my last real post on the platform. I return every Saturday to content from my research group (ODU WSDL) as well as other organizations I care about, like @internetarchive.

Refs:
twitter.com/shawnmjones/status
twitter.com/shawnmjones/status

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-23 **Description:** @kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social (I’m on a plane & the WiFi is spotty.)I’m going to #TPDL2023 and will not live-tweet it like past c...

@kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social (I’m on a plane & the WiFi is spotty.)

I’m going to and will not live-tweet it like past conferences. I’ll post to and , but not .

But I ask myself, why didn’t I quit when :
* made using the word grounds for suspension?
* was promoting , , , & hurting ?
* suspended ?

I stayed for the people who stayed. I stayed to help promote & support them.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-23 **Description:** @Dianora@octodon.social I’m trying to make them #InternetFamous. 😀

@Dianora@octodon.social I’m trying to make them . 😀

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-23 **Description:** @kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social I’ve also been comparing my #TwitterMigration to my #MastodonMigration. Why have I continued to use...

@kentborg@social.tchncs.de @Dianora@octodon.social I’ve also been comparing my to my .

Why have I continued to use in spite of:
* the platform’s own challenges with & ?
* the sometimes being less welcoming to ?
* the ’s complexity?
* challenging technical issues, like learning about 20+ clients for different OSes?

The people. The people help me stay. I also have a faith in Mastodon’s ability to do some good.

(Oh, and .)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-09-22 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-22 **Description:** Tomorrow I'm going to Zadar, Croatia for TPDL2023! Any suggestions on cool things to do or places to eat at outside of the Digital Libraries conferenc...

Tomorrow I'm going to Zadar, Croatia for TPDL2023! Any suggestions on cool things to do or places to eat at outside of the Digital Libraries conference?

Conference site: tpdl2023.dei.unipd.it

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-22 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-22 **Description:** Hi #Mastodon! Tomorrow I'm going to #Zadar, #Croatia for #TPDL2023! Any suggestions on cool things to do or places to eat at outside of the #DigitalLi...

Hi ! Tomorrow I'm going to , for ! Any suggestions on cool things to do or places to eat at outside of the ?

Conference site: tpdl2023.dei.unipd.it

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-18 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-18 **Description:** I wonder how many will pay. I'm not being facetious. At this point, I'm not sure enough have left #Twitter to make a dent in its cultural and sociopol...

I wonder how many will pay. I'm not being facetious. At this point, I'm not sure enough have left to make a dent in its cultural and sociopolitical impact and I'm concerned that competing platforms (e.g., , , ) are losing each back to .

Per Variety:"Elon Musk Suggests He Will Charge All X/Twitter Users a Fee to Be on the Platform”

variety.com/2023/digital/news/

Edit: since I posted, Bluesky/Threads are trending on Twitter.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-09-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-17 **Description:** Last Caturday, Malala the grey tabby cat called an emergency inspection during my shelf-building.

Last Caturday, Malala the grey tabby cat called an emergency inspection during my shelf-building.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-16 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-16 **Description:** Last #Caturday, Malala called an emergency inspection during my shelf-building.#Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat #CatsAtWork#GreyC...

Last , Malala called an emergency inspection during my shelf-building.


--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-15 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-15 **Description:** Due to Apple's #iPhone #connector change, we have decided to review our collection of #wires, small peripherals, and other items surrounding our #elec...

Due to Apple's change, we have decided to review our collection of , small peripherals, and other items surrounding our .

Much pictured here is being organized. We determined that we have enough:
* Apple extension cables
* USB-C to cables
* USB-A/USB-C to lightning
* management velcro

Not pictured: my CAT-5 cables, HDMI, coax, etc.

I’ll be consulting our city’s department.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-09-11 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-11 **Description:** A welcome relief in this morning's email: """ Good morning, The Postdoc Program Office has reviewed the request to extend the postdoc appointment for ...

A welcome relief in this morning's email:
"""
Good morning,
The Postdoc Program Office has reviewed the request to extend the postdoc appointment for Shawn Jones, and has approved this request to extend for an additional year.
"""

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-11 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-11 **Description:** A welcome relief in this morning's email:"""Good morning,The Postdoc Program Office has reviewed the request to extend the postdoc appointment for Sha...

A welcome relief in this morning's email:

"""
Good morning,

The Postdoc Program Office has reviewed the request to extend the postdoc appointment for Shawn Jones, and has approved this request to extend for an additional year.
"""

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-09 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-09 **Description:** One #Caturday, Marjon thought I was being foolish because I wasn’t that worried about that sound he heard further down the alley.#Cat #Cats #BlackCat ...

One , Marjon thought I was being foolish because I wasn’t that worried about that sound he heard further down the alley.



--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-09-02 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-02 **Description:** Last Caturday, the grey tabby cat Malala guarded her kingdom from threats, both real and imagined.

Last Caturday, the grey tabby cat Malala guarded her kingdom from threats, both real and imagined.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-09-02 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-09-02 **Description:** Last #Caturday, Malala guarded her kingdom from threats, both real and imagined.#Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCat#GreyCatsOfMastod...

Last , Malala guarded her kingdom from threats, both real and imagined.


--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-29 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-29 **Description:** @AAKL@noc.social I see what you mean. It’s more of a matter of discipline. I have to step up and “apply the breaks” or other more important things won...

@AAKL@noc.social I see what you mean. It’s more of a matter of discipline. I have to step up and “apply the breaks” or other more important things won’t get done (or done well). While bargaining I have to remind myself of those things rather than the immediate gratification I get from the game.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-28 **Description:** As I continue my #MentalHealth journey, I've been noting behaviors that I'm trying to understand. Many #gamers find themselves in the situation where ...

As I continue my journey, I've been noting behaviors that I'm trying to understand. Many find themselves in the situation where they cannot stop playing.

I stayed up late last night working toward a Victory in . I knew I had to work the next day. I'm very tired now. Why didn't I just go to bed and get back to the game later? Why did I have to finish my task?

Why do we do this to ourselves? How do we regain control?

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-28 **Description:** @AAKL@noc.social The issue is with fighting the impulse to continue. I know what time it is. Civ6 even shows the current time from the game. I have a ...

@AAKL@noc.social The issue is with fighting the impulse to continue. I know what time it is. Civ6 even shows the current time from the game. I have a cycle of looking at the clock and bargaining: “in just a little bit longer I'll have accomplished X and then I can go to bed.” It's like I fear that I won't get a chance to come back later. I'm hoping this thread might help me figure it out. Civ is renown for producing this effect in its players, but I experience it with other games, too. And I'm not alone…

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-28 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-28 **Description:** @AAKL@noc.social And I'm not really blaming Civ. I have had this issue with other games, like City of Heroes, Lineage II, and Quake III. Most of these...

@AAKL@noc.social And I'm not really blaming Civ. I have had this issue with other games, like City of Heroes, Lineage II, and Quake III. Most of these games were not engineered with the psychological shenanigans seen in microtransaction-based freemium games, but they still produced this compulsion. While working on my PhD, I scaled back my gaming. Now that I've graduated I'm starting to game again. The break has helped me examine such behaviors with a fresher set of eyes.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-08-26 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-26 **Description:** One Caturday, the black cat Marjon expressed his suspicion about the neighbor down the street.

One Caturday, the black cat Marjon expressed his suspicion about the neighbor down the street.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-26 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-26 **Description:** One #Caturday, Marjon expressed his suspicion about the neighbor down the street.#Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCatsOfMastodon #...

One , Marjon expressed his suspicion about the neighbor down the street.



--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-08-24 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-24 **Description:** Elon plans to kill social cards on #Twitter. 🫤 I published papers about using CV, NLP, and Machine Learning to generate them b/c they are helpful for ...

Elon plans to kill social cards on #Twitter. 🫤 I published papers about using CV, NLP, and Machine Learning to generate them b/c they are helpful for document Summarization & Storytelling. Elon wants to force writers to write directly on Twitter.

fortune.com/2023/08/21/e...

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-08-24 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-24 **Description:** We found out that Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and others could not reliably create social cards for archived web pages. We developed a special tool, Me...

We found out that Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and others could not reliably create social cards for archived web pages. We developed a special tool, MementoEmbed, for generating cards. We presented this tool at WADL2020.

arxiv.org/abs/2008.00137

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-08-24 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-24 **Description:** Social cards are generated based on metadata present in web pages. If the author doesn't add the metadata, the service won't create the card, so what ...

Social cards are generated based on metadata present in web pages. If the author doesn't add the metadata, the service won't create the card, so what do we do? In 2021, we found that Machine Learning can choose the correct image using easy-to-calculate features.

doi.org/10.1145/3447...

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-08-24 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-24 **Description:** What about that metadata that is present? We analyzed pages from web archives and saw how this metadata evolved. By 2010 we saw a metadata explosion w...

What about that metadata that is present? We analyzed pages from web archives and saw how this metadata evolved. By 2010 we saw a metadata explosion with the use of Twitter Cards, Open Graph Protocol, Facebook Tracking, and more. Social cards created a metadata renaissance.

doi.org/10.1109/JCDL...

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-08-24 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-24 **Description:** So it makes me wonder, with Elon killing Twitter Cards and Facebook backing off of news sharing (and blocking it sometimes), what will the future be f...

So it makes me wonder, with Elon killing Twitter Cards and Facebook backing off of news sharing (and blocking it sometimes), what will the future be for social cards and HTML metadata?

Ref: Facebook blocking wildfire news information rather than pay publishers: apnews.com/article/cana...

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-23 **Description:** Every morning, with my cup of coffee, I look forward to joining the Mastodonians in conversation.#Mastodon #TwitterMigration #MastodonMigration #Patre...

Every morning, with my cup of coffee, I look forward to joining the Mastodonians in conversation.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-22 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-22 **Description:** Elon is planning to effectively kill social cards on #Twitter. Social cards were a big part of my dissertation work. I published a few papers about ge...

Elon is planning to effectively kill social cards on . Social cards were a big part of my dissertation work. I published a few papers about generating them via , , and because they make for nice bits of document and . Now Musk wants them gone to force journalists to write articles directly on Twitter.

Ref (paywall): fortune.com/2023/08/21/elon-mu
Ref (article about paywalled article): 9to5mac.com/2023/08/21/twitter

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-22 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-22 **Description:** In 2020, we developed a special tool, MementoEmbed, for generating/extracting metadata from archived web pages. We presented this tool at the Web Arch...

In 2020, we developed a special tool, MementoEmbed, for generating/extracting metadata from archived web pages. We presented this tool at the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Workshop (WADL2020).

We found out that , , , and others could not reliably create cards for archived web pages. We use MementoEmbed’s cards in with our tool Raintale to create a of this .

Ref: arxiv.org/abs/2008.00137

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-22 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-22 **Description:** Social cards are generated based on #metadata present in web pages. If the author does not create the metadata, the service will not create the card. ...

Social cards are generated based on present in web pages. If the author does not create the metadata, the service will not create the card. What do we do for web pages that predate this metadata?

A lot of techniques can help us create the description part of social cards, but what about the image? In 2021, we found that Random Forest can help choose the correct image using easy-to-calculate features.

Ref: doi.org/10.1145/3447535.3462505

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-22 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-22 **Description:** What about that metadata that is present? Grusky et al. (https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N18-1065 ) realized that, because page authors create that metada...

What about that metadata that is present? Grusky et al. (doi.org/10.18653/v1/N18-1065 ) realized that, because page authors create that metadata, it can serve as ground truth to evaluate .

We analyzed pages from and saw how this metadata evolved. By 2010 we saw a metadata explosion with the use of Cards, Open Graph Protocol, Tracking, and more. Things like Twitter cards created a metadata renaissance for HTML.

Ref: doi.org/10.1109/JCDL52503.2021

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-22 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-22 **Description:** So it makes me wonder, with Elon killing #Twitter Cards and #Facebook backing off of news sharing (and blocking it sometimes), what will the future be...

So it makes me wonder, with Elon killing Cards and backing off of news sharing (and blocking it sometimes), what will the future be for social cards and HTML metadata?

Ref: Facebook blocking wildfire news information rather than pay publishers: apnews.com/article/canada-wild

See original post above🔺 for link to story about Elon killing Twitter cards.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-21 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-21 **Description:** #Twitter's pic issue is one of those moments demonstrating WHY WE NEED #DigitalPreservation & #WebArchiving: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/20...

's pic issue is one of those moments demonstrating WHY WE NEED & : theguardian.com/technology/202

It highlights the value of work by:
@BrendaReyesAyala
@VickyRampin@octodon.social
@anj
@archivist_Liz
@azaroth42
@brewsterkahle
@edsu
@electricarchaeo
@euanc
@ibnesayeed
@ingridbmason
@internetarchive
@liblaura
@martinklein
@mickylindlar
@netpreserve
@peterwebster
@textfiles
@webrecorder
@weiglemc

And so many more. Please reply with others.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-08-19 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-19 **Description:** One #Caturday, I bought the grey cat Malala a sling. I was looking for a way to reacclimate her with going outside after a number of invasive vet visi...

One #Caturday, I bought the grey cat Malala a sling. I was looking for a way to reacclimate her with going outside after a number of invasive vet visits.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-19 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-19 **Description:** One #Caturday, I bought Malala a sling. I was looking for a way to reacclimate her with going outside after a number of invasive vet visits.#Cat #Cats...

One , I bought Malala a sling. I was looking for a way to reacclimate her with going outside after a number of invasive vet visits.


--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-08-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-17 **Description:** Marjon has FOMO about Black Cat Appreciation Day.

Marjon has FOMO about Black Cat Appreciation Day.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-17 **Description:** As part of my personal #TwitterMigration, I've updated my personal web site (https://www.shawnmjones.org) so that my social media icons are at the top...

As part of my personal , I've updated my personal web site (shawnmjones.org) so that my social media icons are at the top as well as the bottom. This is the next step toward using my domain name, not my Twitter Handle, on public interactions like slides.

I have icons for , , , , , , , and .

"Why Twitter?” So that when people find my Twitter handle elsewhere they can confirm that it is the same me.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-17 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-17 **Description:** Marjon has #FOMO about #BlackCatAppreciationDay.#Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule #BlackCatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #CatsO...

Marjon has about .



--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-14 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-14 **Description:** @VickyRampin@octodon.social Yes. You are not alone.

@VickyRampin@octodon.social Yes. You are not alone.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-13 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-13 **Description:** #LEGO set 10300 bags 2 and 3 are complete. On to bags 4…#Mindfulness #ComputerBreak

set 10300 bags 2 and 3 are complete. On to bags 4…

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-08-12 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-12 **Description:** Can we not post videos to Bluesky? I tried to post a video of Marjon for #Caturday and it wouldn’t let me select it?

Can we not post videos to Bluesky?

I tried to post a video of Marjon for #Caturday and it wouldn’t let me select it?

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-12 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-12 **Description:** One #Caturday, my wife recorded this video of our Marjon and his fastidiousness.#Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule#BlackCatsOfMastodon #Ca...

One , my wife recorded this video of our Marjon and his fastidiousness.


--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-06 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-06 **Description:** @akamran When she was a kitten we were finding her in all kinds of interesting places. Two weeks ago I just discovered that I can't trust her on our b...

@akamran When she was a kitten we were finding her in all kinds of interesting places. Two weeks ago I just discovered that I can't trust her on our balcony because she'll try to get on the roof.

Her brother Marjon has climbed like this. Here's a pic of a younger him on a different . He was trying to kill a fly on the ceiling while holding onto the door moulding. He doesn't climb like this any more. He’s likely too heavy (all muscle) for this feat now.

Sorry about your kitty. 😢

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-06 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-06 **Description:** @at@sigmoid.social I think there is something different about Ivory on macOS vs iOS. I don’t see the Moire effect on the iPhone, but I saw it when I w...

@at@sigmoid.social I think there is something different about Ivory on macOS vs iOS. I don’t see the Moire effect on the iPhone, but I saw it when I was posting on macOS.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-06 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-06 **Description:** #LEGO set 10300 bag 1 is complete. On to bag 2, where it might start looking like something recognizable.#Mindfulness #ComputerBreak

set 10300 bag 1 is complete. On to bag 2, where it might start looking like something recognizable.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-08-05 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-05 **Description:** I have to say, I like Malala's current #Caturday project better than some of her other attempts. This was the first time I found her like this, but no...

I have to say, I like Malala's current #Caturday project better than some of her other attempts. This was the first time I found her like this, but not the last. How did she get up there in the first place?

#Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #CatLife

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-05 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-05 **Description:** @at@sigmoid.social Agreed. I've been debating whether or not it actually brings me any pleasure. Some time ago, I started a bad habit of playing a "si...

@at@sigmoid.social Agreed. I've been debating whether or not it actually brings me any pleasure. Some time ago, I started a bad habit of playing a "simple game" while watching TV. Based on current comments from Hollywood execs, this is not an uncommon combination. Of course, this means I do neither very well. I've been actively trying to stop this activity because it splits my attention -- something else that doesn't seem to be good to practice.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-05 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-05 **Description:** I have to say, I like Malala's current #Caturday project better than some of her other attempts. This was the first time I found her like this, but no...

I have to say, I like Malala's current project better than some of her other attempts. This was the first time I found her like this, but not the last. How did she get up there in the first place?


--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-05 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-05 **Description:** @at@sigmoid.social I've made a conscious effort during my Postdoc to use (most) of my weekends as actual time off. I've been trying to get back to act...

@at@sigmoid.social I've made a conscious effort during my Postdoc to use (most) of my weekends as actual time off. I've been trying to get back to activities that don’t involve (as much) computing, like LEGO, doing stuff with the cats, and (gasp) gardening (well, helping my wife with some gardening). I think it's been therapeutic.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-05 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-05 **Description:** @at@sigmoid.social @EricCarroll @khitomers_hamster @oreoteeth This is an old T-Shirt, but it is one of my favorites and very appropriate here. I wish ...

@at@sigmoid.social @EricCarroll @khitomers_hamster @oreoteeth This is an old T-Shirt, but it is one of my favorites and very appropriate here. I wish I could still buy it.

(Sorry about the Moire pattern. I took several pics and this was the least Moire-y.)

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-04 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-04 **Description:** Is it possible that too much #gamification is bad for mental health?I've been slowly been removing experiences that seem to leave me with #anxiety. Ov...

Is it possible that too much is bad for mental health?

I've been slowly been removing experiences that seem to leave me with . Over the last year I've stopped playing mobile games.

At the beginning of the week I stopped my daily lessons. I purposefully broke my . By Wednesday I was less anxious, but agree that it may just be coincidental.

Overall, Duolingo is a net positive experience, so how do I start up again without overdoing it?

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-04 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-04 **Description:** @at@sigmoid.social The desktop is a good idea. I've noticed a similar trend with the "hard to stop.” Sometimes I grant myself one “nighttime game," wh...

@at@sigmoid.social The desktop is a good idea.

I've noticed a similar trend with the "hard to stop.” Sometimes I grant myself one “nighttime game," which is typically something simple like Spades or Backgammon. Eventually something that should be a less than 10 minute investment turns into an hour or more as I'm “chasing the win.” My dedication is not rewarded; I end up playing worse because I'm tired.

I like your idea of “practicing quitting in the middle.” My wife suggested this for TV shows/movies, too.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-08-02 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-08-02 **Description:** @electricarchaeo I hear you. Once, at the beginning of a 3-day weekend, I planned to let the computer work on a long-running process while I was gone....

@electricarchaeo I hear you. Once, at the beginning of a 3-day weekend, I planned to let the computer work on a long-running process while I was gone. My goal was to have fresh data when I returned. I came back to find it hanging. According to the logs, it started hanging in the first 10 minutes. 😒

The goal was to have the computer work while I was resting. Maybe it needed a break, too.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-31 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-31 **Description:** @emmadavidson That's brilliant. By flouncing -- and thank you for teaching me that word -- you established unforgettable acts emphasizing your #Twitte...

@emmadavidson That's brilliant. By flouncing -- and thank you for teaching me that word -- you established unforgettable acts emphasizing your departure. I will consider this course.

You've given me an actionable idea for handling my risk. Conversations like these are the reason I use Mastodon.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-31 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-31 **Description:** Thanks everyone for your feedback. I've "soft-quit" #Twitter for now, returning only to retweet/like to support some folks if asked.Some good suggesti...

Thanks everyone for your feedback. I've "soft-quit" for now, returning only to retweet/like to support some folks if asked.

Some good suggestions from this exchange I'd like to highlight:
* A "forwarding address" post/bio -- per @maria , @kelvin0mql, @emmadavidson, @neoluddite
* “Flouncing out” so others spread the word of you leaving -- per @emmadavidson
* Using my website instead of Twitter handle for self-promotion -- from conversation w/ @ArrestJK

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-30 **Description:** Well, the transformation finally happened on my #iPad this morning. #Twitter truly is no more, but yet still is called Twitter in the App Store.#RIPTw...

Well, the transformation finally happened on my this morning. truly is no more, but yet still is called Twitter in the App Store.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-30 **Description:** The final step of the #TwitterMigration is leaving the platform altogether.How does one manage their #brand risk?I have my #Twitter handle on slides, ...

The final step of the is leaving the platform altogether.

How does one manage their risk?

I have my handle on slides, cards, and a host of other items that I've distributed during my academic career.

Once I leave Twitter (or get kicked out) and someone co-opts my username, how do I ensure that visitors know that the current owner of the username is no longer me? How does one manage ? Ideas?

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-30 **Description:** @UncleGooberleg@mastodon.social Yeah. I figured as much, but I'm curious about #brands that handle such issues. In the past, the #SocialMedia platform...

@UncleGooberleg@mastodon.social Yeah. I figured as much, but I'm curious about that handle such issues. In the past, the platform just died altogether or specialized such that brands stopped using it. I think those platforms prayed that a given brand might come back and hence did not delete accounts. is now being actively antagonistic to its users, so now I feel the need to be defensive.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-30 **Description:** @ArrestJK Excellent points!In response to X rebranding:1. Perhaps this is finally an opportunity to cut #Twitter #TwitterX free. The only thing really...

@ArrestJK Excellent points!

In response to X rebranding:

1. Perhaps this is finally an opportunity to cut free. The only thing really keeping me there is my university research group -- they actively study social media and will have a hard time quitting it. They also use it to promote their work. I'm divided on finally letting it go. I spend far more time (and have more fun) on .

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-30 **Description:** @ArrestJK Agreed. I'm more concerned about the “halfway state” where some companies/individuals still trust it. Once no one trusts #Twitter, enough pe...

@ArrestJK Agreed. I'm more concerned about the “halfway state” where some companies/individuals still trust it. Once no one trusts , enough people will know its reputation and no longer care.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-30 **Description:** @ArrestJK And this is an excellent metaphor. Career-wise, I don't have a permanent position yet and have been using the #Twitter handle as a more perm...

@ArrestJK And this is an excellent metaphor. Career-wise, I don't have a permanent position yet and have been using the handle as a more permanent marker so people can find me as email addresses change. Instead, I should be using my website, which is, by design, more permanent, and links to everything else.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-30 **Description:** @ArrestJK Maybe, but startlingly bad first impressions are hard to overcome. I’ve met machine learning researchers and software engineers that are alt...

@ArrestJK Maybe, but startlingly bad first impressions are hard to overcome. I’ve met machine learning researchers and software engineers that are alt-right (or close). I can see someone reading an impersonator’s post and assuming I’m a member of that group.

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-30 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-30 **Description:** Well, the transformation finally happened on my #iPad this morning. #Twitter truly is no more, but yet still is called Twitter in the App Store. #RIP...

Well, the transformation finally happened on my #iPad this morning. #Twitter truly is no more, but yet still is called Twitter in the App Store.

#RIPTwitter #TwitterIsDead #TwitterDown #GoodbyeTwitter

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-29 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-29 **Description:** My buddy Marjon gets better at this walking thing each #Caturday.#Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule#Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfMast...

My buddy Marjon gets better at this walking thing each .


--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-29 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-29 **Description:** My buddy Marjon gets better at this walking thing each #Caturday. #Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

My buddy Marjon gets better at this walking thing each #Caturday.

#Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #BlackCatsRule

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-27 **Description:** So, #Threads finally did it, something #Mastodon had from Day 1. My followers on Threads might actually have a chance of seeing my posts.

So, finally did it, something had from Day 1. My followers on Threads might actually have a chance of seeing my posts.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-27 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-27 **Description:** I love @ivory and @IceCubesApp as #Mastodon clients. I bounce between them depending my my needs.One thing I wish both had is the ability to compose a...

I love @ivory and @IceCubesApp as clients. I bounce between them depending my my needs.

One thing I wish both had is the ability to compose a whole at once. Am I missing how to do this? Is it on the ?

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-23 **Description:** As a test, I posted similar Caturday posts on social platforms to evaluate my engagement. Here are my anecdotal results:* #Mastodon - likes, boosts, r...

As a test, I posted similar Caturday posts on social platforms to evaluate my engagement. Here are my anecdotal results:

* - likes, boosts, replies, and follows
* - likes, replies, follows
* - likes, replies, follows
* - likes, replies
* - …

Even on Bluesky and Instagram, where I have very few followers, I still get some engagement. On Threads no one can see me, even my followers. They have no way of knowing that I posted anything.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-23 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-23 **Description:** I'd like to stress that I'd be posting Caturday posts to #Mastodon anyway. I just wanted to see how they would fair in the greater landscape.I really ...

I'd like to stress that I'd be posting Caturday posts to anyway. I just wanted to see how they would fair in the greater landscape.

I really dig the work of and look forward to continuing to post here long after the others burn to the ground.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-22 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-22 **Description:** On #Caturday Malala owns the laundry baskets and rests on her conquered prey.#Cat #Cats #GreyCat #GreyCats #GreyCatsRule #GreyCatsOfMastodon #Catstodo...

On Malala owns the laundry baskets and rests on her conquered prey.


--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-22 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-22 **Description:** On #Caturday Malala, the grey tabby cat, owns the laundry baskets and rests on her conquered prey.

On #Caturday Malala, the grey tabby cat, owns the laundry baskets and rests on her conquered prey.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-16 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-16 **Description:** @weiglemc When I get back home I’ll send you a few CSV files containing lists of users.

@weiglemc When I get back home I’ll send you a few CSV files containing lists of users.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-15 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-15 **Description:** On #Caturday, Marjon took a car ride outside of his carrier. He does not like it. My previous cats would eventually figure it out. Marjon eventually s...

On , Marjon took a car ride outside of his carrier. He does not like it. My previous cats would eventually figure it out. Marjon eventually starts having a panic attack. Any suggestions?


--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-15 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-15 **Description:** On #Caturday, Marjon took a car ride outside of his carrier. He does not like it. My previous cats would eventually figure it out. Marjon eventually s...

On #Caturday, Marjon took a car ride outside of his carrier. He does not like it. My previous cats would eventually figure it out. Marjon eventually starts having a panic attack. Any suggestions?

#Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-14 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-14 **Description:** Peer review is difficult. I like it because I get to help others improve their work. It is also humbling because I realize the effort others have to e...

Peer review is difficult. I like it because I get to help others improve their work. It is also humbling because I realize the effort others have to endure to review my work. We all complain about that mythical "Reviewer #2" that really hates our work, but when do we realize that there is a little Reviewer #2 in all of us?

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-14 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-14 **Description:** Peer review is difficult. It is humbling because I realize the effort others have to endure to review my work. We all complain about that mythical "Re...

Peer review is difficult. It is humbling because I realize the effort others have to endure to review my work. We all complain about that mythical "Reviewer #2" that really hates our work, but when do we realize that there is a little Reviewer #2 in all of us?

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** What story will you tell with web archives? The Dark and Stormy Archives Project analyzes applying social media storytelling to web archiving. Our la...

What story will you tell with web archives?

The Dark and Stormy Archives Project analyzes applying social media storytelling to web archiving. Our latest ACM TWEB paper focuses on selecting the exemplar documents and images for storytelling. 🧵👇🏻 (1/)

http://doi.org/10.1145/3606030

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** In earlier work, we showed that social cards, the cards displayed for shared links on social media, are the best option to help users understand web a...

In earlier work, we showed that social cards, the cards displayed for shared links on social media, are the best option to help users understand web archive collections. Minimal social cards consist of a title, description, and striking image. 🧵(2/)

Ref: https://doi.org/10.1145/3357384.3358039

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** A single social card summarizes a single doc. Many cards summarize a topic. We extend this concept to summarize web archive collections. 🧵(3/) Exampl...

A single social card summarizes a single doc. Many cards summarize a topic. We extend this concept to summarize web archive collections. 🧵(3/)

Example story shown: https://oduwsdl.github.io/dsa-puddles/stories/shari/2020/04/22/archive-it_collection_13529___novel_coronavirus_(covid-19)/

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** Social media storytelling requires these steps: 1. select exemplars 2. generate story metadata 3. generate document metadata 4. visualize the story 5....

Social media storytelling requires these steps:
1. select exemplars
2. generate story metadata
3. generate document metadata
4. visualize the story
5. distribute the story

Our new TWEB paper focuses on selecting exemplars and how it affects the rest of the process.🧵(4/)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** In a 2018 paper, we demonstrated how growth curves helped us show different web archiving curatorial behaviors: * green line — when seeds are added * ...

In a 2018 paper, we demonstrated how growth curves helped us show different web archiving curatorial behaviors:
* green line — when seeds are added
* red line — when they are archived
This helps us understand a collection’s temporal spread. 🧵(5/)

Ref: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/EV42P

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** Yasmin AlNoamany had pioneered the work of combining storytelling with web archiving in 2017. She developed a storytelling algorithm based features of...

Yasmin AlNoamany had pioneered the work of combining storytelling with web archiving in 2017. She developed a storytelling algorithm based features of human-created stories and web archive collections. 🧵(6/)

AlNoamany’s work: https://doi.org/10.1145/3091478.3091508

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** We analyzed many other summarization algorithms and developed the a vocabulary of primitives that can be combined to select exemplars: * sample * filt...

We analyzed many other summarization algorithms and developed the a vocabulary of primitives that can be combined to select exemplars:
* sample
* filter
* cluster
* score
* order

We can combine these primitives together to re-create her algorithm, as seen here. 🧵(7/)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** AlNoamany’s algorithm meets one set of goals for storytelling. Her algorithm, which we refer to as DSA1, focuses on discovering news and low-damage me...

AlNoamany’s algorithm meets one set of goals for storytelling. Her algorithm, which we refer to as DSA1, focuses on discovering news and low-damage mementos in a web archive collection.

But our primitives help us meet other exemplar goals. 🧵(8/)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** Remember those growth curves above? DSA1’s temporal cluster step does not consider them. DSA2 addresses this while also focusing on selecting exemplar...

Remember those growth curves above? DSA1’s temporal cluster step does not consider them. DSA2 addresses this while also focusing on selecting exemplars with good social card metadata. It also applies LDA topic modeling for topical clustering. 🧵(9/)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** But DSA2 is not the only possible web archive storytelling algorithm. DSA3 focuses on selecting exemplars that support the overall collection topic. I...

But DSA2 is not the only possible web archive storytelling algorithm. DSA3 focuses on selecting exemplars that support the overall collection topic. It includes additional cluster/filter steps that leverage DBSCAN to detect and remove outlier documents. 🧵(10/)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** While DSA3 focuses on exemplars that support the collection’s overall topic, DSA4 selects *novel* exemplars that meet the overall topic. DSA4 does not...

While DSA3 focuses on exemplars that support the collection’s overall topic, DSA4 selects *novel* exemplars that meet the overall topic. DSA4 does not include DSA3’s outlier removal steps. Both apply topical clustering via TF-IDF and K-means, but differ in scoring. 🧵(11/)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** Using our vocabulary of primitives, we have created four algorithms for different types of storytelling from web archive collections. Each has a diffe...

Using our vocabulary of primitives, we have created four algorithms for different types of storytelling from web archive collections. Each has a different focus for selecting exemplars. Each meets different information needs. 🧵(12/)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** Why not just use a search engine to select exemplars? One challenge with this approach is that many web archive collections have little to no metadata...

Why not just use a search engine to select exemplars? One challenge with this approach is that many web archive collections have little to no metadata to help users create search queries. We discovered that the larger a collection, the less metadata exists. 🧵(13/)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** How well do these algorithms compare with a search engine for exemplar selection? We synthesized WARCs from 8 different Archive-It collections and loa...

How well do these algorithms compare with a search engine for exemplar selection? We synthesized WARCs from 8 different Archive-It collections and loaded them into  SolrWayback -- a web archive search engine. We ran DSA1-DSA4 on these collections to select exemplars. 🧵(14/)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** From each exemplar, we applied query-generation techniques to simulate different visitors searching for these documents. We found that DSA1-DSA4 surfa...

From each exemplar, we applied query-generation techniques to simulate different visitors searching for these documents. We found that DSA1-DSA4 surfaced documents that had low retrievability in the search engine, even after considering a 1000 results. 🧵(15/)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** Additionally, we found that DSA1-DSA4 surfaced documents that are never retrievable from the search engine, even when applying known-item queries. Thu...

Additionally, we found that DSA1-DSA4 surfaced documents that are never retrievable from the search engine, even when applying known-item queries. Thus algorithms constructed from our model provide a view into the collection not available from a standard search engine. 🧵(16/)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** The documents with zero retrievability were germane to their collections. The images here show documents from collections about NASA Social Media, Del...

The documents with zero retrievability were germane to their collections. The images here show documents from collections about NASA Social Media, Delaware government, and the Virginia Tech Shooting discovered by DSA1-4, but with zero retrievability via the search engine. 🧵(17/)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** Thus, the DSA algorithm model selects exemplars that are germane, but not discoverable using a state-of-the-art web archive search engine. Also, as se...

Thus, the DSA algorithm model selects exemplars that are germane, but not discoverable using a state-of-the-art web archive search engine. Also, as seen in their construction, they provide different views into the collection than are available via text-based queries.
🧵(18/)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** For storytelling we summarize each exemplar as a social card. Typically, page authors supply metadata for the title, description, and striking image f...

For storytelling we summarize each exemplar as a social card. Typically, page authors supply metadata for the title, description, and striking image for each card. What if such metadata is not present? How do we approximate human behavior to fill these values? 🧵(19/)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** In the new paper, we also augment results from our ACM WebSci '21 paper detailing how to apply Machine Learning to select striking images for social c...

In the new paper, we also augment results from our ACM WebSci '21 paper detailing how to apply Machine Learning to select striking images for social cards. Random Forest performs best with quickly-calculated image features. 🧵(20/)

Original paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3447535.3462505

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** One can automatically generate descriptions for cards via text summarization algorithms, but these algorithms often need a target length as input. Aft...

One can automatically generate descriptions for cards via text summarization algorithms, but these algorithms often need a target length as input. After analyzing description metadata over time, we determined that this length should be 268 chars, 52 words, or 2 sentences.🧵(21/)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** Applying the document exemplar selection and the image exemplar selection techniques, we close our ACM TWEB paper with example stories built from Arch...

Applying the document exemplar selection and the image exemplar selection techniques, we close our ACM TWEB paper with example stories built from Archive-It and Trove collections. This process is flexible enough to create many different types of web archive stories. 🧵(22/)

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** For more details on these experiments and applying storytelling to web archive collections, please look at the newly accepted ACM TWEB paper from the ...

For more details on these experiments and applying storytelling to web archive collections, please look at the newly accepted ACM TWEB paper from the DSA Project and ask yourself:

What story will you tell with web archives?

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Ref: https://doi.org/10.1145/3606030

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-10 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-10 **Description:** I thank my co-authors for their continued help and support in advancing the Dark and Stormy Archives project: * Michael Nelson * Michele Weigle * Mar...

I thank my co-authors for their continued help and support in advancing the Dark and Stormy Archives project:

* Michael Nelson
* Michele Weigle
* Martin Klein

This is a culmination of many years of work. I thank members of WS-DL for their assistance and support. (24/FIN)

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--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-08 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-08 **Description:** There's a Malala under my covers on #Caturday! #Cats #Cat #GreyCat #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCats

There's a Malala under my covers on #Caturday!
#Cats #Cat #GreyCat #GreyCatsRule #TabbyCats

--- ## Bluesky Post 2023-07-07 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-07 **Description:** Hello Bluesky. I'm a researcher exploring how to apply machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision to the spaces of information...

Hello Bluesky. I'm a researcher exploring how to apply machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision to the spaces of information retrieval and web science -- including social media.

I post about my papers, others work, and participate in Caturday across the Web.

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-06 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-06 **Description:** I'm doing a thought experiment and need some feedback. I have technical questions about #Threads and privacy. I've been online since the ‘90s.Besides ...

I'm doing a thought experiment and need some feedback. I have technical questions about and privacy. I've been online since the ‘90s.

Besides being outraged by this list, including "Other Data” -- how exactly would Threads extract this information?

While there are a number of sneaky ways (e.g., third-party cookies) to track me in a browser, I'm curious as to how Threads actually collects this data technically, especially on a mobile OS.

See rest of thread before answering 👇🏻🧵(1/4)

--- ## Mastodon Post 2023-07-06 **Type:** Blog Post **Date:** 2023-07-06 **Description:** I understand the use of cookies in a browser to track a user online, whether it be through