Librarian Jenne

  • Future of this blog

    I started this little blog with high hopes and an overestimation of how much free time I had. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what I actually want to do here, which means I have spent a lot of time thinking about what I want to spend my precious life doing. Recently, I’ve…

  • Blogroll Where?

    I’m getting very frustrated with Word Press right now. All I want is for the default page for posts to be the single-with-sidebar, but apparently, the ONLY ways to have that are either to edit the single template or to manually choose the single-with-sidebar template Every.Single.Time.I.Post. To make things more frustrating, it used to be…

  • Google News

    A long time ago, a media company I worked for was openly longing for a future in which they no longer had to pay journalists because they could get news for free from the internet. Apparently, that day is here, thanks to AI: Google is apparently boosting news sites that use AI to steal and…

  • Writing Software

    (As in, software to write in.) As part of my constant procrastinating on actual writing, I have been going back and forth on whether I should keep writing with Scrivener or whether I should switch to Ulysses. I’ve been using Scrivener for years and years. Generally I like it, but it has two major issues,…

  • 3D Printing

    My main goal today has been to get my 3D printer to cooperate and print properly. It’s sometimes frustrating to get good information on 3D printing by using a search– even if the sites I receive are written by humans, it’s often a lot of faff and repeated sentences, without ever actually saying anything useful.…

  • Dead Internet Theory

    Yesterday, I learned of the Dead Internet Theory, the idea that “the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content that is manipulated by algorithmic curation, marginalizing organic human activity.” (While searching, I also ran across articles written by Very Intelligent People opining that This is Wrong, but I wonder if those Very Intelligent People would even recognize AI/bot-written…

  • SEO and other Garbage

    This article from the Verge was painful to attempt to read with its whiz-bang powerpoint animations circa 2004, but the content in it is eye-opening. In a nutshell, Mia Sato demonstrates the process of making a site Google- and SEO-friendly and basically ruining it in the process. I no longer use Google when I have…

  • Human Curation

    One of the reasons I decided to start blogging again is because I miss human curation: interesting links written by humans for humans. I’m not the only one who feels this way: I liked this post by Cassidy Williams lamenting the loss of human curation and the way “content is pushed in your face, designed to…

  • Repairing my Treadmill, Pt 2

    I’ve gotten a late start today on repairing my treadmill (Nordictrack EXP1000.) I started off with removing the protective thing at the bottom of the treadmill (to protect the carpet from the belt and the belt from the carpet.) I’m not sure that actually needed to be removed, since it’s not connected to the step…