Shane Lin
@shane.logoff.website
Historian and digital humanities developer @ Scholars' Lab, UVA Library. He/him. Dogs, data, history of privacy and cryptography. Great sage equal of heaven.
I also like that the game subtly disincentivizes doing piracy all the time by not allowing your crew to sing during combat. You don’t always have to be on the grindset, you can just enjoy sailing around the Caribbean! (Randy Dandy O also extremely strong)
August 19, 2026 at 2:52 AM
I also like that the game subtly disincentivizes doing piracy all the time by not allowing your crew to sing during combat. You don’t always have to be on the grindset, you can just enjoy sailing around the Caribbean! (Randy Dandy O also extremely strong)
Oh, it’s not that simple anymore. Thanks to the NYT’s vast resources, you have to make a GET call now: www.nytimes.com/svc/wordle/v...
Which might be a good way to teach APIs…
Which might be a good way to teach APIs…
July 23, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Oh, it’s not that simple anymore. Thanks to the NYT’s vast resources, you have to make a GET call now: www.nytimes.com/svc/wordle/v...
Which might be a good way to teach APIs…
Which might be a good way to teach APIs…
To clarify: it was to find all the answers for every past and future wordle, which were embedded in the javascript code. It was educational cheating!
July 23, 2026 at 2:13 PM
To clarify: it was to find all the answers for every past and future wordle, which were embedded in the javascript code. It was educational cheating!
Come by the Lab to say hi to everyone sometime and I’ll have one here for you, Andrew. Or else I can mail you one too.
May 2, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Come by the Lab to say hi to everyone sometime and I’ll have one here for you, Andrew. Or else I can mail you one too.
I printed a few of them! DM me your address and I’ll drop one off in the mail for you.
May 2, 2026 at 8:31 PM
I printed a few of them! DM me your address and I’ll drop one off in the mail for you.
I love and hate that case so much.
April 23, 2026 at 5:53 PM
I love and hate that case so much.
The curve for the flywheel C&P is 3 fingers though.
April 23, 2026 at 5:36 PM
The curve for the flywheel C&P is 3 fingers though.
You’re making it look like only three fellows passed
April 23, 2026 at 3:36 PM
You’re making it look like only three fellows passed
Mostly the latter. And also in kind of a meta sense: if you didn’t know enough to know e.g. that historical geolocation can be fraught, how can you know that the output matches your intent?
March 27, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Mostly the latter. And also in kind of a meta sense: if you didn’t know enough to know e.g. that historical geolocation can be fraught, how can you know that the output matches your intent?
I think that for something like this, you can reasonably say “this is a straightforward transformation, there’s not really a lot of scholarly choices being made here.” But if a person not only didn’t do the work but potentially doesn’t know how to do the work, how does that person know?
March 27, 2026 at 8:19 PM
I think that for something like this, you can reasonably say “this is a straightforward transformation, there’s not really a lot of scholarly choices being made here.” But if a person not only didn’t do the work but potentially doesn’t know how to do the work, how does that person know?