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• selfcare.tech Bot on Mastodon

  Published on June 05, 2023 under the Life category.

  I subscribed to the selfcare.tech bot on Mastodon a few days ago. The bot has provided messages that have been of particular meaning at a time when, on reflection, I have been a lot harder on myself than I should be. Here are a few Toots(?) posted by the bot recently that particularly resonated with me:

• Announcing linguist.link: NLP insights for web pages

  Published on June 03, 2023 under the Web category.

  This week, I have been tinkering with Natural Language Processing (NLP) to build an index for my personal website. While I was creating this project, I explored various techniques to help me find words relevant enough to be featured in the index.

  

• Creating an index for my personal website using NLP

  Published on June 03, 2023 under the IndieWeb category.

  At Homebrew Website Club this week, we discussed book indexes (with the Chicago Manual of Style nearby as a reference, of course!). This got me thinking about what a web index may look like for a blog: a page formatted like a book index where you can see articles that mention unique concepts on your blog. Book indexes are useful tools for navigating information. Given a concept, the index tells you where to find out more. I was curious about what this may look like for a blog.

  

• Fun with Words

  Published on June 01, 2023 under the Fun with Words category.

  In the last week, I have had two conversations where someone has used a word that immediately made me think "this would be a good candidate for the Fun with Words series!" Indeed, I was so engrossed by the word that I proclaimed to the others in said conversations that I plan to note them in this series. I love hearing words that make me stop and wonder what they mean or with an itch to read their full defintion.

• The weed

  Published on May 29, 2023 under the Life category.

  There is a weed growing outside in a pot left behind. I look out the window and each day the weed has grown. More spikes; is somewhat scary. I tried to cut the growing stalk before the plant became problematic -- or, in other words, out of control -- but I didn't have the tools nor the strength. I knew there was a problem -- I could see the plant growing -- but I kept forgetting about it. My mind was focused on other matters. And I keep coming back to the weed: growing evermore.

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