Charles Loder

Is there anyone on here I should be following? Drop a handle in the comments!

I feel like my network on this site has stagnated, and I'd love to follow more people and the cool work they're doing

Props to all the people who know how to game the welfare system — getting unemployment is wayyyy harder than software

Acc. to SBL when citing a web page, it should include the "owner or sponsor" of a site. Zotero calls this field "Website Title."

And neither of those are encoded in any real way in a site. The page has a title, and it's hosted on a domain.

Maybe a meta tag could supply this?

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This could've taken days of manual editing, reformatting citations in Word, one by one

Instead, a few hundred entries were migrated to citation software in minutes.

The future of AI in academia isn't replacing thinking — it's eliminating the busy work that prevents it

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As expected, the output wasn't perfect — sometimes the volume of the work was included in the title instead of being in a separate field or a DOI was added in the ISBN field

But the job was 90% done, allowing me to focus more on the details before exhaustion set in.

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Next, all I had to do was import the RIS file to Zotero, and from there I could export a bibliography in the exact format I needed.

I didn't have to alphabetize. I didn't have to worry about em-dashes for repeated authors.

Tools academics already use can handle that.

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Now to let the AI work.

I gave that to an LLM to convert it to a RIS file — a data sharing format for citations used by tools like Zotero — along with a URL to the RIS wiki to provide more context.

In a few minutes (using a thinking model), I had structured data!

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The first step was simple — I created a new Word doc for each section and copy/pasted the bib entries from the respective chapters.

No alphabetizing. No standardization. No organizing.

Just copy and paste into one giant doc.

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AI's writing ability is hyped, but a less discussed LLM super power is "munging" — i.e. converting unstructured text to structured data.

They're great at this.

I had 40 separate bibliographies to group together by section. Doing this manually would've been tedious

I keep seeing academics on this platform post about how bad AI is — hallucinations, fake citations.

They're valid. But these complaints miss how AI can help, especially with editing.

A 🧵 about using AI to collate a bibliography for 40 chapters in a few hours (not days)…

fyi, actively looking for a new role. If you know of any good positions, my DM's are open!

This latest iteration (v0.2.0) supports:
• text streaming
• saving chat history per session
• a button to clear the chat.

Still blows my mind how cool it is that software can do this now!

I'm continuing to work on clover-ai in my spare time, and trying to build more in public.

Below is a Latin ms from the CA State Library via @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social. The transcription isn't perfect, but for mss which may never be transcribed, these models can do a lot with little effort

Life with a toddler involves your spouse asking questions like:
"Which brooms are the mommy and daddy sea monsters again?"

So was COS published as 3 separate volumes and then again as a single volume in 2003?

The role: Senior Software Engineer (React UI)
The qualifications:

@erinnewton.bsky.social I feel like this would be up your alley

Is there a best way to indicate reprint info for a title in @zotero.org? Using the SBL author-date style if that makes a difference

Assistant Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Assistant Professor of New Testament on jobs.ac.uk!

New Testament job at Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY877/a...

Just for extra clarity, the John Hilber is NOT the culprit

Dear authors,

Please learn how to use style guides in Word. This is not how you make a bibliographic entry.

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Really cool collaborative IIIF annotation tool

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charlesLoder - Overview Making the internet a more Hebrew friendly place. charlesLoder has 34 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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📢As you may know, I am on the job hunt again (federal funding cuts, hooray).

I'm looking for full-stack/frontend dev roles, esp in the education space.
⬇️Your company hiring or know that is? Drop them below!

Boost that engagement algo too (hence the emojis) with a
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I do love the new look though

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Posting for later
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Came across a frontend developer position wanting…strong C#/.NET and SQL skills

So that's the state of my job search now

So the Gemini CLI can't write an integration test for a React component — I guess the AI is as smart as a human now

In the past 2 days I've sewn on a button and a patch — am I a trad wife now?

Yup! That "other social media platform" gave that answer. I had no idea how confusing LXX Joshua was
ccat.sas.upenn.edu/nets/edition...