Category Archives: Announcements

Apparently a WordPress update caused some subtle breakage here a while back. The site has been spewing, among other things, a bunch of “&raquo” escapes in places that end up encoded as XML (thus breaking, among other things, RSS feeds). … Continue reading →

Posted on 2016-02-28 by pappp | 1 Comment

New Data Integrity Tools

Posted on 2014-04-04 by pappp

I’ve recently added a couple tools to my standard set, and have at least a 4x improvement in the safety of my data by doing so. The process was complicated a bit because I’ve become very sensitive about only depending … Continue reading →

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Spring 2014 Impressions

Posted on 2014-01-30 by pappp

I’ve been terrible about writing things up lately, but want to at least put my semester impressions on the head of the chain of such posts. One of my overall experiences is that teaching (and also, taking classes outside my … Continue reading →

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Hosting Move

Posted on 2013-12-24 by pappp

I’ve just completed a move of this site to a new host, it should be transparent to everyone else – modulo a few brief intervals during the move – so please let me know if anything appears broken. There is … Continue reading →

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SC13

Posted on 2013-11-15 by pappp

I will be at SC’13 November 16-21 with the aggregate.org/University of Kentucky research exhibit again this year in booth 629. Media and impressions should appear somewhere in my ‘net presence during and after the conference, it is always a good … Continue reading →

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Fall 2013 Impressions

Posted on 2013-09-09 by pappp

Following my habit of posting Before/After notes on my semesters, some impressions for Fall 2013 now that every class has met. I’m getting to the point where the bulk of coursework I can and would sign up for tends to … Continue reading →

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Replicating Reader Sharing with TTRSS and WordPress

Posted on 2013-05-22 by pappp

I was shit-talking Google Plus’ utility as a replacement for Reader’s social features, and realized I think I actually can do at least as well with my existing infrastructure. I’m not immediately planning to switch, because Plus offers convenience and … Continue reading →

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Google is Getting Awfully Evil

Posted on 2013-03-16 by pappp

TLDR; I no longer consider google trustworthy, Tiny Tiny RSS is a suitable, self hosted, replacement for Reader. Until this week, Google had managed to convince me their services were trustworthy – more trustworthy than self-hosting – which is quite … Continue reading →

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Spring 2013 Impressions

Posted on 2013-01-23 by pappp

Since I’m in the habit of posting about classes I take at the beginning and end of the semester, and often find something interesting when I look at them later, some quick impressions for courses I’m involved in for the … Continue reading →

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Shapeoko: Part 1

Posted on 2012-11-18 by pappp

My Shapeoko kit arrived from Inventables while I was away at SC. I’ve been trying to build myself a small CNC milling machine since 2009, and contemplating it for longer than that. It became clear that my original design, however … Continue reading →

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