Ryan P. Randall @foureyedsoul@scholar.social

Just spent a few hours writing documentation on how to create screenreader accessible html tables for the journal's other editors… hours in which I was getting increasingly punchy.

My fave bit is:
- watch out for whether cutting & pasting into our journal platform turns straight quotes (") into curly quotes (“”), since html can only handle straight quotes
- the "h" in "html" apparently stands for "heteronormative"

Hmmm… actually, I think I might ask whether snippets could be added to nvUltra whenever it comes out.
https://brettterpstra.com/2019/04/10/codename-nvultra/

Snippets in text editors is such an excellent feature. May the universe bless the forgetful, efficient, (I'm gonna assume) undiagnosed ADHD developer who came up with this software gift.

This toot brought to you by me finally making snippets in Atom for YAML headers, the schema I've landed on using, and BibLaTex entries—and really feeling the lack of snippets in nvALT.

Just remembered how a patron smiled yesterday when he asked whether "alludes" means "refers to." I nodded and said, "Yeah, if you're alluding to the Lord of the Rings, you might be making a joke about a hobbit."

Dude's sleepy finals week eyes really brightened up for a second, both at my example and that he was using that word the right way.

Whoa. Just got back some kind & unexpected praise from this semester's professor on my final paper, suggesting I submit it to both a specific conference & journal.

Gotta use that as wind in my sails as I grind out a lot of less-interesting work in the next 24 hours for a different seminar.

I do still wish that Pandoc & Markdown didn't treat block quotes as block elements. Can't think of any reason a humanities document would conceptually or typographically consider a block quote to be outside of the paragraph within which it supplies textual evidence.

I like writing in an editor more than Word, so I'll just resign myself to keep "mopping up" after outputting a draft.

Tutorial for using a reference doc as a style template in Pandoc:
- realize you don't have that reference file on your 6 month old computer
- realize it's not on the much older computer either
- remember to breathe as you eventually find it on your off-computer backup storage
- oh no, the output is 6 pages when you need 8
- better living through technology‽‽‽
- you've got 14 hours until it's due, so thank goodness you're working ahead more than usual

I'd appreciate input on a hashtag for shared conference notes that could scale across associations / meetings / etc.

So far I'm thinking #GLAMnotes would work? GLAM stands for galleries, libraries, archives, museums.

Thanks everyone who suggested & helped test possible non-Goggle options! Avoiding platforms for surveillance capitalism is necessary work. Another internet is possible. #critlib

Want to read or share #ACRL2019 conference notes? Here's a place for that:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/ACRL2019-lets-share-notes-keep

There's notes from talks related to equity, diversity, and inclusion; critiquing capitalism; critical thinking; social justice work; vocational awe; and other good stuff.

The "recasting the narrative" conference theme was productive! #GLAMnotes #critlib

I'm totally sympathetic to her; she was going through Stuff at home and is generally a Good Egg. I love that story because how it encapsulates the tension between ingenuity / creative problem-solving process vs knowledge from actual experience.

So not only did tonight's seminar presentation seem to go quite well, I

*~ALSO~*

had an entirely topical occasion to tell the story of how one of my high school's valedictorians got busted sneaking alcohol on campus by injecting vodka into an orange with a syringe, thinking she'd be able to snack on the orange during class like it was No Big Deal.