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Charles Loder

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Software Engineer @ The Seed Company | Bridging technology & humanities | Making the internet a more Hebrew friendly place hebrewtransliteration.app

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An `AGENTS.md` file should NOT describe the codebase. It should only tell the agent: - how to respond - business needs not defined in code - maybe a little bit about code quality (or link to a separate coding standards doc) An agent will figure out the codebase on it's own. Thoughts?
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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵New digital resources for Masoretic studies: a megathread. We're living in a golden age of digital tools for the study of the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible. This thread compiles recent resources, several of which have launched just this year.
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The project seeks to document and present both the Hebrew Bible and accompanying Masorah in a critical manner, attending to the full range of features preserved in manuscript" Also love the circules! www.openmasorah.com#overview
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Open Masorah — The Hebrew Bible, with its evidence shown
An open evidence layer for the Hebrew Bible. Every manuscript, every variant, every Masoretic note — brought fully into view.
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cultural Heritage, WebMCP, and IIIF—the team at Northwestern really leads the way in AI and library science mat.digital/posts/webmcp...
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WebMCP in Cultural Heritage: Including Agent Users in UX
How the new WebMCP specification connects cultural heritage to researchers in AI workspaces, impacts user experience, and expands access to our material.
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A new project I'm excited to announce! 🎉 Leningrad Codex TEI leningradcodex.page A digital version of L, encoding the columnar layout of the biblical text using TEI. But I need contributors! (see below) Though the text of the mss has received much attention…
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Leningrad Codex TEI — the oldest complete Hebrew Bible, folio by folio
Read the Leningrad Codex online: an open, TEI-encoded edition of the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, browsable folio by folio with facsimile images.
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Awesome work being done on one of the best free and open biblical studies tools
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A helpful introduction to the Miqra al Pi Hamasorah project and how it differs from other digital editions. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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A Resource You've Never Heard About by Working for the Word - a Bible translation podcast
Miqra according to the Masorah (מקרא על פי המסורה) is a Hebrew edition of the Tanakh in a digital online format under an open license. It is based on the Aleppo Codex and related manuscripts, and corr...
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Would it be too weird to try to crowd fund a low cost academic project? Estimating the cost would be about $100, exclusively for inference.
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A really cool role if you like Jesus and AI "Indiana Wesleyan University is seeking experienced Adjunct Faculty to teach undergraduate and graduate applied A.I. courses in an online, asynchronous format." www.christiantechjobs.io/christian-jo...
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Adjunct Faculty, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics at Indiana Wesleyan University
Indiana Wesleyan University is hiring for a Adjunct Faculty, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics. Apply now to take the next step of your Christian information technology career!
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ok NYT, that is a terrifying way to start a sentence
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What is the point of Amazon prime? I pay for a service that lets me pay for movies? Just stream the movie or don’t
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Marijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In 2025 @bnuyaminim.bsky.social and me taught a course on Comparative Semitics at the Leiden Summer School. After some cleaning up, we've decided to upload the syllabus and release it under a CC license for you and yours to peruse through. doi.org/10.17613/b4z...
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Will be going through the book of James in a bible study. What are good works about economic structure/disparity in the ancient world Is Longenecker's Remember the Poor a good starting point?
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Chet & Dolly — "Do I ever cross your mind" www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyRq...
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Chet Atkins, Dolly Parton "Do I ever Cross Your Mind'
YouTube video by daffydoug
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I can now officially say that I started as a Software Engineer with The Seed Company 🎉 This is an amazing opportunity to help push forward the work of Bible translation. It's cliché, but I'm excited to see what this new chapter of life will bring.
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The use of "publish" in Isa 52:7 (ESV) struck me as odd. The KJV, RSV, and ASV all use "publish" for מַשְׁמִיעַ. Though "publish" can generally mean 'to make known' including non-text ways (like publishing the banns of marriage), it feels as if the predominant usage has shifted…
Isaiah 52:7 (ESV)  How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Using a 3D printer for the first time. My print isn't even done, but I know I'm addicted
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
we need a complete and total moratorium on floating shelves
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Any works out there on grapholinguistics and Hebrew?
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Trying to proofread endnotes in English in a book that is set RTL
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Meonly: Confused Math Lady Meme
ALT: Meonly: Confused Math Lady Meme
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Today I heard Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah at a very Christian funeral, all the verses
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Used Gemma4 12b on MacBook M2 Air via Ollama-it’s slow and really only good for smaller tasks to be overnight but the fact you can do this stuff locally at such high quality is mind boggling
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Indexing a book with lots of Latin and Greek sources…how do you classicists keep up with this?! Sometimes it's author + title, sometimes just an author, sometimes there's more numbers and letters than a quadratic equation, and ever so occasionally…brackets around the title.
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Though correct, this image will never cease to confuse me more on the matter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recto_a...
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
ISO 259 uses s̀ to transliterate and unpointed shin character, and I don't know how I feel about that still
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Just recently used ChatGPT. Does it often use first-person now??? I feel like it didn’t use to do that
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Added some new options to Hebrew Transliteration App: - Ketiv/Qere pairs - "on complete" callback The settings UI is getting a bit cramped!
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Had a moment of inspiration and wanted to sketch out this idea. Not sure if SBL Hebrew is the best font for this though…
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I’m basically non-existent
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Years ago, when debating continuing in academia or jumping ship, I submitted an article. It was rejected, and the comments left me dejected. It pushed me to pursue tech, for which I'm happy. But lately I feel compelled to return to it Good or bad idea?
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
e2e tests are to integration tests, like preaching is to bible study
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Developed a test to see where my Hebrew transliteration library's output differs from Khan's transcriptions. It's really close! Pretty sure Gen 1:8 and 1:13 are errors in transcription itself, and 1:4 and 1:7 are different by only 1 stress mark
Test report for transliterating tiberian Hebrew
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Just doing my part to train the next batch of AI
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The separation of presentational components and the data model may be the most foundational axiom for a good front end…and this is why I hate every PHP stack
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Any idea why the kaf is doubled here?
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Are there examples pf patah-he at the end of word besides מַה־? Obviously where the ה does not have a mappiq, so גֹּבַהּ would not count
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
“LMU Munich’s Institute for Digital Cultural Heritage Studies proudly announces the launch of its pioneering Master of Arts in Digital Cultural Heritage.” I don’t need a new degree…I don’t need a new degree www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/study...
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Master's program Digital Cultural Heritage
Our Master's program is a brand new, innovative, cross-discplinary and internationally oriented study program at LMU, training in English the future generation of digital experts for cultural heritage...
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Is Codex Sassoon no longer available via Ktiv? If so, why?
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, a tremendous image, really, all peoples, nations and tongues say so, they can't believe it"
independent.co.uk
Pastor leads leads wild dedication ceremony for Trump’s giant gold statue
The president himself called into the ceremony to thank the religious leader and guests in attendance
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Collection of photographs from 1917 of Samaritan Passover publicdomainreview.org/collection/s...
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Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
Images from a ritual practised for 127 generations.
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
3yo: Jet starts with “d”! me: you’re not wrong, but no one will believe you Toddler is surprisingly good at noticing affricates
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Interesting thought from a friend: maybe the snake wasn't in the Garden? If the Garden is analogous to the inner sanctum, Adam & Eve would likely not be understood as living in it; it was their job to work and serve in it.
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Any unambiguous examples of a word in construct taking a disjunctive accent? Need some testing data
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Compiled a list of terms for agentic engineering. AI could have written it better, but I don't want to offload all cognition to AI. Learning these systems is still a skill. Thinking doesn't have to go away, even if these systems change what we think about docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Terms for Agentic Engineering
Terms for Agentic Engineering Agent An instance of an Agentic System typically given some specific task (e.g. a planning agent, a coding agent). Agentic Engineering The process of using AI powered sys...
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Memory, Tools, RAG — at what point do we drop the terms and just say, "Adding Context from an external source"?
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
☘️ clover-ai v0.6.0 User can now add Annotations in addition to IIIF Images to the chat, and chats can be exported to markdown But most importantly (not really), checkout that nice hover animation on the chat bubble! #iiif #digitalhumanities #ai
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
🎉 Version 3 of Hebrew Transliteration App is live! Besides some major technical changes (Astro & Svelte), the UX has been greatly improved. There are far fewer bugs related to how schemas are handled, including improved support for callback functions. Let me know what you think!
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Got a redesign cooking, and checkout that favicon!
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
At The Ohio State University, the study of ancient Northwest Semitic languages has moved out of the textbook and into the digital laboratory of epigraphic training. dlato.osu.edu/blog/teachin...
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Teaching 21st-Century Phoenician Epigraphy: Digital Edition of the Karatepe Inscription | DLATO
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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Dumped a bunch of Khan's writing about the shewa from TTPT into Sonnet 4.6 and has it generate a flowchart. There are errors (partly due to maybe not giving it enough context), but a fun exercise in #digitalhumanities claude.ai/public/artif...
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Shewa Pronunciation Flowchart: Hebrew Vowel Guide
Learn when Hebrew shewa is silent or vocal with this interactive flowchart. Determine shewa pronunciation based on position, preceding vowels, and consonant quality.
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