andrew @andrewjbtw@digipres.club

The "expected behavior" part of bug reports always feels weird to write when the issue is something that you don't see as a user when it's not broken.

Expected behavior: it works?

real-life research data management: a single, 411 GB file named 'DATA.tar', for deposit

One thing I hope to learn at Samvera Connect is if Samvera is actually a "thing" that can be talked about as such.

NTTW in the NWT

Still waiting for iPres to be in Ypres.

because Microsoft on a Mac is not good https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-quick-tale-about-feff-the-invisible-character-cd25cd4630e7/

"I de-feff'ed my csvs."

Fixity checks only tell you if you're still storing what you thought you were storing, not if you're storing what you thought you should be storing.

A weird thing about Chinese naming conventions is that when I email my parents and my sister together, I'm never quite clear on which name to put as the signature.

(definitely not "Andrew" tho)

I updated my personal Archivematica VM last week to try to finally wrap up some writing and then Artefactual went out and released a new version again.

Even if you're not going to audit your preservation system right away to check on the content, I highly recommend asking this question right away: if we were going to audit the system, what would we need to know to be able to determine what is success?

"I'd love to get down to a single point of failure."

I think I finally figured out why my twitter account shows two more tweets than I've actually tweeted: after my various rounds of deletions, the two oldest remaining tweets of mine were manual retweets from 2013 of accounts that no longer exist.

I can't delete them from the web app because it redirects me to another page. So now I'm waiting to see if I can use the API again, now that you have to apply for it.

First official day off I've taken in quite a while (not including being between jobs). I'm glad I'm in a state where accrued vacation is paid out when you leave, but because I didn't know exactly when I was leaving or how long I'd be between jobs, I used very little time off in the past year at my last job, then started with very little at this one. And I'm obligated to use four days to cover part of winter break closure.

It's kind of wild to me that of all the things I've written online that it didn't seem like all that many people read at the time, a blog post I wrote as in intern a decade ago has ended up in a bunch of citations:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22brandeis+and+the+history+of+transparency%22

for posterity

Aw, they already fixed it.

TFW title is *REQUIRED FIELD* https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12712805