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accessibility

2018-10-28 ➫ NTTW3 and making conferences more accessible
2017-09-20 ➫ Accessibility and Archivability

annual report

2023-12-27 ➫ Twenty twenty three annual report and twenty twenty four goals
2022-12-29 ➫ Twenty twenty two annual report and twenty twenty three goals
2021-12-13 ➫ Twenty Twenty-One Annual Report and Twenty Twenty-Two Goals
2020-12-13 ➫ Twenty Twenty Annual Report and Twenty Twenty-One Goals
2019-12-13 ➫ Twenty Nineteen Annual Report and Twenty Twenty Goals
2018-12-20 ➫ Twenty Eighteen Annual Report and Twenty Nineteen goals
2017-12-20 ➫ 2017 Reflection and 2018 Goals
2016-12-19 ➫ 2016 Reflection and 2017 Goals: Retrospective and refactoring
2016-01-02 ➫ 2016 new years resolutions
2014-12-27 ➫ New Year's Resolutions

avpres

2024-10-04 ➫ PBCore, Mediainfo, and FFmpeg step-by-step
2022-05-31 ➫ Archivists review Archive81
2021-07-27 ➫ Translations for the A/V Artifact Atlas
2021-04-03 ➫ Media Collection Viewer
2019-09-19 ➫ FFV1: Bigger than before
2018-11-08 ➫ Compressing and uncompressing a preservation master video file
2018-10-28 ➫ NTTW3 and making conferences more accessible
2018-04-26 ➫ What does audiovisual compression look like?
2018-04-01 ➫ Wild Wild Country and the Magnetic Media Crisis
2017-12-22 ➫ Introducing: Audiovisual Preservation Training
2017-11-13 ➫ No Time To Wait! 2
2017-01-16 ➫ Minimum Viable Station Documentation: Recipes
2016-12-02 ➫ Minimum Viable Station Documentation

beyonce

2019-04-29 ➫ Beyoncé's HOMECOMING: Film, film, and video
2016-05-24 ➫ Aspect Ratios in LEMONADE, Pt. 2
2016-04-29 ➫ Aspect Ratios in LEMONADE, Pt. 1
2016-02-09 ➫ Format-ion: Video playback errors in Beyoncé’s latest music video

book

2023-07-12 ➫ Hello, Illustrated Guide to Audio and Film Formats books out now!
2022-08-06 ➫ The Illustrated Guide to Video Formats now available!
2022-06-20 ➫ Using open source software to create and assemble a book
2022-05-29 ➫ Adventures in printing and publishing a book
2022-05-09 ➫ I accidentally started making a book

codecs

2018-04-21 ➫ What is a Minimum Viable Codec?
2018-04-04 ➫ Lenticular film, lenticular codec
2018-04-03 ➫ Exploring codecs and data streams

collaboration

2017-08-09 ➫ The Collection Management System Collection
2017-01-16 ➫ Minimum Viable Station Documentation: Recipes
2016-12-02 ➫ Minimum Viable Station Documentation

conferences

2019-04-20 ➫ Rhond<3's Greatest Hits
2019-02-23 ➫ Code4lib 2019: Thoughts and appreciation post
2019-02-23 ➫ Code4lib 2019 lightning talk: The Real World of Technology (transcript)
2018-10-28 ➫ NTTW3 and making conferences more accessible
2018-03-25 ➫ Ethics and Archiving the Web
2017-11-13 ➫ No Time To Wait! 2
2017-06-23 ➫ Open Source Bridge 2017
2017-05-13 ➫ How to livestream and record a conference when you have no money
2016-09-23 ➫ FACING / FEAR / FIRST
2016-04-30 ➫ {Lets get digital}, talking about NDSR NY Symposium
2015-11-28 ➫ ffmprovisr at AMIA #AVhack15
2015-06-30 ➫ Creating closed captions for !!Con conference videos!!!
2014-11-04 ➫ Non-technical person's guide to becoming an open source software contributor via Github
2014-10-15 ➫ Video Sprites
2014-10-13 ➫ Open Source Software at the Association of Moving Image Archivists 2014 Conference
2014-09-28 ➫ Breaking down conference speakers by gender using Nokogiri and SexMachine

conservation

2019-06-17 ➫ Artist_Exhibition-copy (FINAL)(2).mov: Preserving diacritics in filenames as significant properties in media conservation
2019-04-20 ➫ Rhond<3's Greatest Hits
2018-03-25 ➫ Ethics and Archiving the Web

design

2019-06-29 ➫ rsync, GUIs, power, control, design, and decisions
2017-10-31 ➫ ffmprovisr gets a redesign
2017-10-03 ➫ CSS Grid and New Order

divination

2023-09-19 ➫ Techno-divination #8: please please please
2023-04-26 ➫ Billboard Astrology
2022-06-10 ➫ Aura reader for two

documentation

2017-08-09 ➫ The Collection Management System Collection
2017-01-16 ➫ Minimum Viable Station Documentation: Recipes
2016-12-02 ➫ Minimum Viable Station Documentation

fdds

2024-05-24 ➫ Researching file formats 39: ArcGIS Layer File
2024-05-17 ➫ Researching file formats 38: AppleDouble Resource Fork
2024-05-10 ➫ Researching file formats 37: Portable Embosser Format
2024-05-03 ➫ Researching file formats 36: Windows Phone Installation Package
2024-04-26 ➫ Researching file formats 35: Apple ProRaw
2024-04-19 ➫ Researching file formats 34: iOS App Store Package
2024-04-12 ➫ Researching file formats 33: Android Package
2024-04-05 ➫ Researching file formats 27: Core Audio Format
2024-03-29 ➫ Researching file formats 31: XYZ Point Cloud
2024-03-22 ➫ Researching file formats 30: Autodesk Maya Binary
2024-03-15 ➫ Researching file formats 29: Autodesk Maya Project
2024-03-08 ➫ Researching file formats 28: Virtual Reality Modeling Language
2024-03-01 ➫ Researching file formats 27: Microstation DGN
2024-02-23 ➫ Researching file formats 26: 3DM
2024-02-16 ➫ Researching file formats 25: Nullsoft Streaming Video
2024-02-09 ➫ Researching file formats 24: Unified Speech and Audio Coding
2024-02-01 ➫ Researching file formats 23: Audio Definition Model
2024-01-26 ➫ Researching file formats 22: Sibelius
2024-01-19 ➫ Researching file formats 21: bzip
2024-01-12 ➫ Researching file formats 20: gzip
2024-01-05 ➫ Researching file formats 19: Java class file
2023-12-28 ➫ Researching file formats 18: DS_Store
2023-12-22 ➫ Researching file formats 17: Shell link binary file format
2023-12-14 ➫ Researching file formats 16: Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format
2023-12-07 ➫ Researching file formats 15: Groupwise MLM Format
2023-12-04 ➫ Library of Congress Format Descriptions Visualization
2023-12-01 ➫ Researching file formats 14: Apple EMLX Format
2023-11-24 ➫ Researching file formats 13: vCard (virtual business cards)
2023-11-17 ➫ Researching file formats 12: Kryoflux raw disk image format
2023-11-10 ➫ Researching file formats 11: MOOF
2023-11-03 ➫ Researching file formats 10: HxC Floppy Emulator HFE File Format
2023-10-27 ➫ Researching file formats 9: Digital Forensics XML
2023-10-20 ➫ Researching file formats 8: PDF Portfolio
2023-10-13 ➫ Researching file formats 7: WordPerfect Document Family
2023-09-15 ➫ Researching file formats 6: EndNote Citation Library Format
2023-09-08 ➫ Researching file formats 5: Radiance RGBE Image Format
2023-09-01 ➫ Researching file formats 4: Exif (Exchangable Image File Format)
2023-08-25 ➫ Researching file formats 3: JPEG File Interchange Format Family
2023-08-11 ➫ Researching file formats 2: MySQL Table Definition Format
2023-08-11 ➫ Researching file formats 1: FASTA database format
2023-08-04 ➫ Researching file formats 0: Introduction (to the series)

ffmpeg

2024-10-04 ➫ PBCore, Mediainfo, and FFmpeg step-by-step
2019-09-19 ➫ FFV1: Bigger than before
2019-04-20 ➫ Rhond<3's Greatest Hits
2018-11-08 ➫ Compressing and uncompressing a preservation master video file
2018-04-26 ➫ What does audiovisual compression look like?
2018-04-25 ➫ Uncompressed versus uncompressed packed video
2018-04-03 ➫ Exploring codecs and data streams

ffmprovisr

2017-10-31 ➫ ffmprovisr gets a redesign
2015-11-28 ➫ ffmprovisr at AMIA #AVhack15

ffv1

2019-09-19 ➫ FFV1: Bigger than before
2018-11-08 ➫ Compressing and uncompressing a preservation master video file

file formats

2024-05-24 ➫ Researching file formats 39: ArcGIS Layer File
2024-05-17 ➫ Researching file formats 38: AppleDouble Resource Fork
2024-05-10 ➫ Researching file formats 37: Portable Embosser Format
2024-05-03 ➫ Researching file formats 36: Windows Phone Installation Package
2024-04-26 ➫ Researching file formats 35: Apple ProRaw
2024-04-19 ➫ Researching file formats 34: iOS App Store Package
2024-04-12 ➫ Researching file formats 33: Android Package
2024-04-05 ➫ Researching file formats 27: Core Audio Format
2024-03-29 ➫ Researching file formats 31: XYZ Point Cloud
2024-03-22 ➫ Researching file formats 30: Autodesk Maya Binary
2024-03-15 ➫ Researching file formats 29: Autodesk Maya Project
2024-03-08 ➫ Researching file formats 28: Virtual Reality Modeling Language
2024-03-01 ➫ Researching file formats 27: Microstation DGN
2024-02-23 ➫ Researching file formats 26: 3DM
2024-02-16 ➫ Researching file formats 25: Nullsoft Streaming Video
2024-02-09 ➫ Researching file formats 24: Unified Speech and Audio Coding
2024-02-01 ➫ Researching file formats 23: Audio Definition Model
2024-01-26 ➫ Researching file formats 22: Sibelius
2024-01-19 ➫ Researching file formats 21: bzip
2024-01-12 ➫ Researching file formats 20: gzip
2024-01-05 ➫ Researching file formats 19: Java class file
2023-12-28 ➫ Researching file formats 18: DS_Store
2023-12-22 ➫ Researching file formats 17: Shell link binary file format
2023-12-14 ➫ Researching file formats 16: Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format
2023-12-07 ➫ Researching file formats 15: Groupwise MLM Format
2023-12-04 ➫ Library of Congress Format Descriptions Visualization
2023-12-01 ➫ Researching file formats 14: Apple EMLX Format
2023-11-24 ➫ Researching file formats 13: vCard (virtual business cards)
2023-11-17 ➫ Researching file formats 12: Kryoflux raw disk image format
2023-11-10 ➫ Researching file formats 11: MOOF
2023-11-03 ➫ Researching file formats 10: HxC Floppy Emulator HFE File Format
2023-10-27 ➫ Researching file formats 9: Digital Forensics XML
2023-10-20 ➫ Researching file formats 8: PDF Portfolio
2023-10-13 ➫ Researching file formats 7: WordPerfect Document Family
2023-09-15 ➫ Researching file formats 6: EndNote Citation Library Format
2023-09-08 ➫ Researching file formats 5: Radiance RGBE Image Format
2023-09-01 ➫ Researching file formats 4: Exif (Exchangable Image File Format)
2023-08-25 ➫ Researching file formats 3: JPEG File Interchange Format Family
2023-08-11 ➫ Researching file formats 2: MySQL Table Definition Format
2023-08-11 ➫ Researching file formats 1: FASTA database format
2023-08-04 ➫ Researching file formats 0: Introduction (to the series)

flatiron

2014-12-19 ➫ Flatiron School ROI and life as a #FlatironAlum
2014-11-08 ➫ Fog Creek Fellowship Mini-post
2014-09-18 ➫ Flatiron and Fog Creek Fellowship
2014-09-18 ➫ Breaking it down
2014-09-08 ➫ Learning (and trolling) with Popcorn.js
2014-07-23 ➫ Using videogrep to make supercuts
2014-07-16 ➫ Canyon of Heroes
2014-07-16 ➫ Form Helpers
2014-07-16 ➫ N+1+Arel+Me
2014-07-01 ➫ Twitter bot roundup
2014-06-30 ➫ Twitter Bots 5: Scheduling tweets with Cron
2014-06-29 ➫ Twitter Bots 4: MAD SCIENCE
2014-06-29 ➫ Twitter Bots 3: Keeping your bot alive
2014-06-25 ➫ Twitter Bots 2: Authorizing the Bot
2014-06-24 ➫ The bots are coming! Twitter bots!
2014-05-09 ➫ Historical post: Choosing a program

fog creek

2014-11-08 ➫ Fog Creek Fellowship Mini-post
2014-09-18 ➫ Flatiron and Fog Creek Fellowship

guestpost

2015-11-10 ➫ Guest post: Show Your Work: Why I know commenting your code is bad

livestream

2017-05-13 ➫ How to livestream and record a conference when you have no money

mediainfo

2024-10-04 ➫ PBCore, Mediainfo, and FFmpeg step-by-step

mediainfoinfo

2023-05-09 ➫ Mediainfo Definitions
2020-02-21 ➫ MediaInfoInfo: Metadata tags
2020-02-14 ➫ MediaInfoInfo: MediaInfo-specific words
2020-02-07 ➫ MediaInfoInfo: Image, Menu, Text, and Other streams
2020-01-31 ➫ MediaInfoInfo: Audio streams
2020-01-24 ➫ MediaInfoInfo: Video streams
2020-01-17 ➫ MediaInfoInfo: General streams
2020-01-17 ➫ MediaInfoInfo: Parameters and making a plan
2020-01-10 ➫ MediaInfoInfo: Initialize Project!

metadata

2024-10-04 ➫ PBCore, Mediainfo, and FFmpeg step-by-step

open source

2021-07-16 ➫ IETF RFCs that are actually just poems
2018-10-28 ➫ NTTW3 and making conferences more accessible
2017-11-13 ➫ No Time To Wait! 2
2014-11-04 ➫ Non-technical person's guide to becoming an open source software contributor via Github
2014-10-15 ➫ Video Sprites
2014-10-13 ➫ Open Source Software at the Association of Moving Image Archivists 2014 Conference

personal

2022-07-29 ➫ Structuring my workday for personal productivity and incentives
2021-04-09 ➫ Community-derived suggestions for handling burnout
2020-11-16 ➫ Enter the TikkiLand: MTV Spring Break Online
2020-05-14 ➫ Notes on exploring the Vasulka PDF archive
2020-05-13 ➫ Throttled: a few things I learned making this network-based performance
2017-08-04 ➫ Thanks, team: My time at the New York Public Library
2016-02-24 ➫ Being always gracious
2015-05-30 ➫ Where have you been?
2014-05-12 ➫ May 8th and decision-making.
2014-05-11 ➫ Blogging for hackers.
2014-05-09 ➫ IS THIS THING ON?
2014-05-09 ➫ Historical post: Leaving my job

pop culture

2022-05-31 ➫ Archivists review Archive81
2019-04-29 ➫ Beyoncé's HOMECOMING: Film, film, and video
2018-04-01 ➫ Wild Wild Country and the Magnetic Media Crisis
2017-12-28 ➫ Aspect ratios in Errol Morris's Wormwood
2016-05-24 ➫ Aspect Ratios in LEMONADE, Pt. 2
2016-04-29 ➫ Aspect Ratios in LEMONADE, Pt. 1
2016-02-09 ➫ Format-ion: Video playback errors in Beyoncé’s latest music video

productivity

2022-07-29 ➫ Structuring my workday for personal productivity and incentives

programming

2021-04-03 ➫ Media Collection Viewer
2020-05-14 ➫ Notes on exploring the Vasulka PDF archive
2020-05-13 ➫ Throttled: a few things I learned making this network-based performance
2016-09-21 ➫ Parsing XML into a CSV with Ruby
2015-11-10 ➫ Guest post: Show Your Work: Why I know commenting your code is bad
2014-10-15 ➫ Video Sprites
2014-09-25 ➫ Why wont Octopress just upload my images
2014-09-18 ➫ Breaking it down
2014-06-16 ➫ Regular Expression Options
2014-05-22 ➫ Coding guide for newbs

publishing

2023-07-12 ➫ Hello, Illustrated Guide to Audio and Film Formats books out now!
2022-08-06 ➫ The Illustrated Guide to Video Formats now available!

rails engage

2015-05-30 ➫ Where have you been?
2015-02-03 ➫ Rails Engage: Cooking up an MVC
2015-01-24 ➫ Rails Engage: rails generate
2015-01-18 ➫ Rails Engage: Scoping
2015-01-11 ➫ Rails Engage: Setting up your environment
2015-01-11 ➫ Rails Engage!

recurse center

2021-04-03 ➫ Media Collection Viewer
2020-05-14 ➫ Notes on exploring the Vasulka PDF archive
2020-05-13 ➫ Throttled: a few things I learned making this network-based performance
2018-06-23 ➫ Weeks 9, 10, 11 at Recurse Center
2018-05-28 ➫ Weeks 7 and 8 at Recurse Center
2018-05-11 ➫ Week 6 at Recurse Center: Halfway point!
2018-05-05 ➫ Mapping the planets with Rust+WebAssembly+JavaScript+Canvas
2018-05-04 ➫ Week 5 at Recurse Center
2018-05-03 ➫ The Story of Goldilocks and the Three WebAssembly Libraries
2018-04-27 ➫ Week 4 of 12 at Recurse Center
2018-04-27 ➫ Rust Study Group Notes
2018-04-26 ➫ What does audiovisual compression look like?
2018-04-25 ➫ Uncompressed versus uncompressed packed video
2018-04-21 ➫ What is a Minimum Viable Codec?
2018-04-21 ➫ Week 3 at Recurse Center: Feelings Check-in
2018-04-13 ➫ Stealing snax using semicolons in Rust
2018-04-13 ➫ Second week at Recurse Center
2018-04-12 ➫ Error handling in Rust
2018-04-10 ➫ Considering Rust ...for Video
2018-04-09 ➫ Considering Rust
2018-04-06 ➫ First week at Recurse Center
2018-04-04 ➫ Lenticular film, lenticular codec
2018-04-03 ➫ Exploring codecs and data streams
2018-04-03 ➫ All the stuff between EBML and Matroska
2018-04-02 ➫ Making a Matroska Magic Hat

rust

2018-04-27 ➫ Rust Study Group Notes
2018-04-13 ➫ Stealing snax using semicolons in Rust
2018-04-12 ➫ Error handling in Rust
2018-04-10 ➫ Considering Rust ...for Video
2018-04-09 ➫ Considering Rust

small projects

2023-09-19 ➫ Techno-divination #8: please please please
2023-07-05 ➫ Color picking for the web
2023-05-09 ➫ Mediainfo Definitions
2023-04-26 ➫ Billboard Astrology
2022-06-10 ➫ Aura reader for two
2021-04-03 ➫ Media Collection Viewer
2020-11-16 ➫ Enter the TikkiLand: MTV Spring Break Online
2020-05-14 ➫ Notes on exploring the Vasulka PDF archive
2020-05-13 ➫ Throttled: a few things I learned making this network-based performance
2017-06-11 ➫ Cry Map: Greater Boston Area, ca. 2010
2017-02-27 ➫ Making an I Ching application in Javascript
2014-09-25 ➫ Netflix for Books
2014-09-08 ➫ Learning (and trolling) with Popcorn.js
2014-07-23 ➫ Using videogrep to make supercuts

sysadmin

2019-06-17 ➫ Artist_Exhibition-copy (FINAL)(2).mov: Preserving diacritics in filenames as significant properties in media conservation
2018-11-11 ➫ Installing CollectiveAccess on a cloud server
2014-06-30 ➫ Twitter Bots 5: Scheduling tweets with Cron

teaching

2017-12-22 ➫ Introducing: Audiovisual Preservation Training
2017-10-31 ➫ ffmprovisr gets a redesign
2017-05-13 ➫ How to livestream and record a conference when you have no money
2016-09-21 ➫ Parsing XML into a CSV with Ruby
2014-11-04 ➫ Non-technical person's guide to becoming an open source software contributor via Github

twitterbots

2014-07-01 ➫ Twitter bot roundup
2014-06-30 ➫ Twitter Bots 5: Scheduling tweets with Cron
2014-06-29 ➫ Twitter Bots 4: MAD SCIENCE
2014-06-29 ➫ Twitter Bots 3: Keeping your bot alive
2014-06-25 ➫ Twitter Bots 2: Authorizing the Bot
2014-06-24 ➫ The bots are coming! Twitter bots!

video

2021-07-27 ➫ Translations for the A/V Artifact Atlas
2021-06-03 ➫ WebRTC lingo
2021-04-03 ➫ Media Collection Viewer
2019-04-20 ➫ Rhond<3's Greatest Hits
2018-04-26 ➫ What does audiovisual compression look like?
2018-04-25 ➫ Uncompressed versus uncompressed packed video
2018-04-21 ➫ What is a Minimum Viable Codec?
2018-04-10 ➫ Considering Rust ...for Video
2018-04-04 ➫ Lenticular film, lenticular codec
2018-04-03 ➫ Exploring codecs and data streams
2018-04-03 ➫ All the stuff between EBML and Matroska
2018-04-02 ➫ Making a Matroska Magic Hat
2014-07-23 ➫ Using videogrep to make supercuts

web preservation

2020-11-16 ➫ Enter the TikkiLand: MTV Spring Break Online
2020-05-13 ➫ Throttled: a few things I learned making this network-based performance
2019-04-20 ➫ Rhond<3's Greatest Hits
2017-09-20 ➫ Accessibility and Archivability
2017-09-20 ➫ How do web archiving frameworks work?

webdev

2023-12-04 ➫ Library of Congress Format Descriptions Visualization
2023-09-19 ➫ Techno-divination #8: please please please
2023-07-05 ➫ Color picking for the web
2023-05-09 ➫ Mediainfo Definitions
2023-04-26 ➫ Billboard Astrology
2022-06-10 ➫ Aura reader for two
2021-07-27 ➫ Translations for the A/V Artifact Atlas
2021-07-16 ➫ IETF RFCs that are actually just poems
2021-06-03 ➫ WebRTC lingo
2021-04-03 ➫ Media Collection Viewer
2020-05-14 ➫ Notes on exploring the Vasulka PDF archive
2020-05-13 ➫ Throttled: a few things I learned making this network-based performance
2018-05-05 ➫ Mapping the planets with Rust+WebAssembly+JavaScript+Canvas
2018-05-03 ➫ The Story of Goldilocks and the Three WebAssembly Libraries
2017-10-31 ➫ ffmprovisr gets a redesign
2017-10-03 ➫ CSS Grid and New Order
2017-09-20 ➫ Accessibility and Archivability
2017-09-20 ➫ How do web archiving frameworks work?
2016-01-26 ➫ Do you like Blacklight but hate MARC? Roll your own instead!: Indexing your non-MARC data into SOLR!