work-refection

2019-stuff.md

stuff i did

(march-2019 through february-2020)

code...

• annex-counts
  • created added web-app for B.H. to get counts of different types for any date and any of the four categories
• annex-end-of-day project
  • upgraded to python3
  • added code to populate annex-counts webapp
• availability-api
  • updated to use the Sierra-API
  • merged more services to use it instead of the older to-be-retired availability-service
  • implemented async processing for multiple behind-the-scenes queries
  • added bib-search with properly-sorted items
• bib-ourl-api
  • added email-admin-on-error
• book-locator
  • pulled book-locator out into its own separate project, from the overloaded bibutils project
  • added print-labels
• borrowdirect-api (internal)
  • added email-on-error check
• callnumber-app
  • upgraded packages
  • added email-on-error check
• disa
  • looked into genealogy prior-work
  • made improvements to flask site
  • updated framework to django
  • implemented shib
  • implemented search
• easyRequest
  • handled situation in which patron-barcodes with spaces caused authentication to fail
  • handled lack of email from patron-api
  • added email-admin-on-error check
  • updated django
• easyRequest-Hay
  • implemented Archives and Manuscripts requesting when no restrictions are in-place
  • eliminated chance of bib-holds and reduced the chance of false-alarms to staff
  • tracked down an apostrophe-encoding issue and fixed it w/H.C.
  • updated logic for when request_access link should appear in new-Josiah
  • added suite of selenium tests (https://github.com/birkin/blacklight_hay_FTcode)
• easyAccess
  • switched sole remaining old-josiah link to new-josiah
  • shifted easyBorrow and easyArticle to both point to the same new internal-illiad-api
  • auto-switched some incorrect genre=bookitem to genre=article params to improve resolution
  • upgraded project to python3
  • updated py360link code to python3 (https://github.com/birkin/py360link2)
  • investigated mysql slowdown and created appropriate index
  • improved ILLiad citations by inferring title/author info in certain situations
  • handled situation where article issn is embedded in isbn-labeled param
  • used shortkey to more reliably reload data sometimes hosed by revproxy-bounces
• easyScan
  • modernized some of the code
• iip
  • worked with students & E.M. to make new site live
  • integrated two different inscription-display code-blocks
  • improved iip admin options
  • added email-on-error check
  • w/E.M., improved photo-caption display
• illiad
  • worked with J.M. & B.H. to implement cloud-based ILLiad
  • improved 'shortlink' for source-item
• illiad internal api
  • significantly updated to work with the move to cloud-based ILLiad
• mapping violence
  • learned a lot about docker, at emergency-pace
  • w/J.M., resurrected non-working site, kept stakeholders updated, and implemented accessible backups.
  • added logins
  • created automated backups
  • began replacement webapp; enabled shib
• newtitles
  • updated packages and added email-admin-on-error check
  • got css working again after drupal was retired and removed
• pageslips project
  • assisted K.H. with pageslips bookmarklet
• patron-api (internal)
  • removed external dependency
  • upgraded to python3
  • upped timeout due to slow sierra response
• sierra
  • added the ability to place a hold on behalf of a patron using the Sierra-API, instead of a problematic screen-scraping method previously used
  • added 'combined-files' code for quicker post-processing, and added validation code to minimize chance of corrupt data getting into combined files
• site-checker
  • upgraded packages
  • added email-on-error check
• usep
  • enabled full https usage
  • implemented admin links

misc...

• served on search-committee for the Director of Library H.R./O.D.
• participated (in minor role) in Atalanta team-meetings
• supported student-work for E.M. projects
• attended Ivies-Plus shared-data webinar
• trouble-shot, with J.M., serials-solution link360 issue
• gave lightning-talk at the code4lib-New-England meet-up at Smith
• participated in CIS-led interdepartmental discussions about how to support introduction-to-programming bootcamp workshops
• participated in open-textbook meeting, and checked textbooks against link360-api
• experimented with EBSCO's full-text-finder
• participated in sharing with NYPL how we're using Sierra & Aeon
• participated in Data-Cookbook / Collections-Ecosystem meetings
  • showed folk old dashboard code
  • investigated using Sierra APIs to populate bib-data from spreadsheet
• got B.H. annex-data for location-check validation work
• joined A.C. to share information about GitHub for a Digital Humanities class
• presented, w/A.C., a Library Software-Carpentry GitHub workshop
• added easyborrow-admin link for B.H. to search on patron-barcode

community

• with J.M., offered a Spring and Fall electric-vehicle demo to staff
• attended nearly all diversity & inclusion talks/workshops
• participated in post-sprint demos
• actively contributed to friday dev-meetings
• led discussions to make friday dev-meeting more accessible to others

dev meeting sharing...

• code4lib-New-England notes
• web augmented-reality
• CSS color naming
• Online Bibliographic Metadata Tools
• NSF awards API
• Sense electricity monitor website and mobile-app visualizations/data
• calling a function via a string in python
• subresource-integrity javascript parameter
• concurrent/async programming language/conceptual issues
• javascript: ways to remove an item from an array
• selenium
• logging tracebacks
• 'sewing' code in the 1960s!
• regex solution
• idea: build in sunsetting to projects
• secretly-in-public-domain books
• chaos engineering
• elegant bookmarklet solution
• accessing google spreadsheets via python3
• python2 vs python3 sort issues
• approaches to diff-ing dictionaries in python
• idea: data-feeds & examples
• dashboard lightly resurrected
• sorting objects in python, in increasing complexity
• coding item check-digits
• python bisect module
• concurrent/async programming implementation and time-test
• lru caching
• pymongo result-set -- not a list, but a cursor!
• json object serialization approaches
• collections.defaultdict
• the failed but fascinating "digiscents ismell"
• virtual representation of scss in chrome's developer-tools

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