In a previous blog post, I asked "What Bugs Would Bill Gates Find in my Spec?" If Gates were looking for problems, the first thing he might do is look for Unicode bugs that prevent a computer from matching a citing quote with a source … [Read more]
Understanding Ambiguity and Context: History in the Digital Age
Watching the Agenda with Steve Paikin As a UWaterloo History Grad, I was excited to see a discussion about History on Ontario's Public Television station. What Makes History Special? One quote by UWaterloo's Ian Mulligan stood out, in which he … [Read more]
What Bugs Would Bill Gates Find in my Spec?
Joel Spolsky (best know for cofounding Stack Overflow, FogBugz, Glitch, and Trello) tells the story of his first Bill Gates Review while working as a project manager on the Excel team. Spolsky recounts that: Bill doesn’t really want to review … [Read more]
Listen to Interview with Open Source Publishing Founder John O’Nolan
I was inspired by listening to a 66-minute interview with John O'Nolan about the nonprofit company he started to serve the publishing industry. When John O'Nolan (@JohnONolan) set out to create Ghost, he made an unintuitive decision for a … [Read more]
New Security Policy Added to Demo Site
Tonight I added a new CSP - Content Security Policy to the demo.CiteIt.net website. What are CSPs? The basic idea behind CSPs (Content Security Policies) is that security can be improved if the webserver is configured to tell … [Read more]
First User of WordPress Plugin
Tonight my friend Will installed the CiteIt.net WordPress Plugin on his blog and created a test post. Will is the first person to install the plugin other than myself. Will had to first install the Classic Editor because the CiteIt.net plugin was … [Read more]
First Russian-Language Citation
Today I demoed CiteIt for my colleague Bezod, who speaks Russian. We created a Bible citation in English first and then we created the first citation in Russian, using an article from news.mail.ru. The article is about Vladimir Putin comforting … [Read more]
Improving the Docker Image
Last night at the Lancaster Linux meetup, I talked to Alex about improving the Docker Image's Dockerfile. I had some trouble with an earlier Python Image (3.6) that didn't include some of the latest versions of my Python libraries so I switched to a … [Read more]
CiteIt API Setup for first time!
This morning I got the Cite API working for the first time! Ever since my brother helped me create a new version of the code that was designed to work with Amazon Lamba I've felt like I needed to clean up my Git repository to clear out my old … [Read more]
CiteIt Examples
Example 1: Pride & Prejudice In Chapter 5 of Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth confesses how Darcy offended her: I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. Example 2: Tyler Cowen interviews David Wolpe Tyler Cowen commented … [Read more]
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