Karin Dalziel

@nirak@hcommons.social
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Assistant Director, Digital Strategies @ University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Dev team lead, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities

I also like cats, dogs, bikes, ebikes, roller skating, kayaking, reading, indoor climbing

opinions my own and don't reflect those of my employer

Personal accounts at @nirak (general purpose) and @nirak (Lincoln, Nebraska instance)

CDRHhttps://cdrh.unl.edu
@BatsInLavender @jnl I use my kettle probably 5-6 times a day in the winter, slightly less in summer. Even just for cooking - I boil part of the water on the stove and part in the kettle so l can get going faster. Like a kitchen scale, it's hard to remember what life was like without it.
After a few days of blessed calm, the bots are back :(

@adr I get so annoyed with dire warnings of "lower living standards"

Lower for who? Everyone? Or just the people with 3 houses ad a gazillion cars might have to get by with 2 houses and 2 cars?

I figured there must be and I just had not found it, but no
Apparently there is no way to create recovery codes for my work's 2fa in case we forget/lose our recovery device :/

I gave up air travel nine years ago, and I wrote about it in this new essay on Substack.

Give it a read and a share. I think I've managed not to sound too self-righteous ;)

'What I’ve realised is that flying isn’t just a seriously carbon-intensive mode of transport, It’s a story we’re sold about what it means to live well.'

https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/grounded-what-i-gained-by-giving-up-air-travel

#Environment #Scotland #Writing #Books #Climate #Sustainable #Article #Writingcommunity

Finished a new blog post: "My Coworkers Don't Want AI. They Want Macros"

https://ruthtillman.com/post/macros-not-ai/

My Coworkers Don't Want AI. They Want Macros | Ruth Kitchin Tillman

An exploration of how we are using macros in our current system, contrasted with what we're getting pitched by vendors. We want to: enter consistent data, avoid typos, improve system design, add conditional logic, and generally save the user repetitive, mindless work. Right now, that seems to require macros.

Ruth Kitchin Tillman
@overholt Honestly I understand it though, sometimes people have two last names and I don't know which to alphabetize by
With temperatures reaching 100 today, here is a look back at people escaping the heat at America's first public beach, Revere Beach.
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#RevereBeach #Postcards #ephemera #Heatwave #Boston #RevereMa #Massachusetts @universalhub
@anwagnerdreas It strikes me as being a bit like managing a very difficult employee: one who will never say "I don't know" up front, but will charge ahead doing the wrong thing, only to be overly obsequious when found out, and who never learns anything