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Vice Provost/Dean of the Library, Professor of History at Northeastern University Posts originate at social.dancohen.org, but I'll hear you if you reply Subscribe at newsletter.dancohen.org for longer-form writing
👤 Joined on 28 November 2023
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@danieljcohen.bsky.social@danieljcohen.bsky.social → @djcohen.bsky.social@djcohen.bsky.social → @social.dancohen.org@social.dancohen.org → @dancohen.org@dancohen.org's account of the iterative, collaborative & irreducibly *human* substrate on which @zotero.org was built & is sustained is a telling contrast to the instant gratifications of vibe coding & its shiny, brittle results. More mini-ethnographies & histories of software development please
Show Post"As programming increasingly becomes a caffeinated bender with magical bots, this measured pace and emphasis on communal thinking likely holds an important lesson." Love this piece on the development of Zotero. newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
Show PostCool deep dive into Zotero's origins
Show PostWithout qualification, @zotero.org has been one of the most useful tools I’ve ever used, especially in combination with Katie Seaborn’s Zotpress, that enables one to publish tailored Zotpress collection to a WP website: wordpress.org/plugins/zotp... thank you to all involved!
Show PostThe thing that infuriates me about Zotero is that I went to grad school the first time in 2009/2010. ZOTERO EXISTED. And yet not ONE SINGLE PERSON at my school or elsewhere told me such a thing existed. I did my thesis bibliography by HAND, like an ANIMAL.
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