Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026An `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? 110
Reposted by Charles LoderJoshua 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. 11912
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#overviewopenmasorah.comOpen Masorah — The Hebrew Bible, with its evidence shownAn open evidence layer for the Hebrew Bible. Every manuscript, every variant, every Masoretic note — brought fully into view. 000
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Cultural Heritage, WebMCP, and IIIF—the team at Northwestern really leads the way in AI and library science mat.digital/posts/webmcp...mat.digitalWebMCP in Cultural Heritage: Including Agent Users in UXHow the new WebMCP specification connects cultural heritage to researchers in AI workspaces, impacts user experience, and expands access to our material. 000
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A 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…leningradcodex.pageLeningrad Codex TEI — the oldest complete Hebrew Bible, folio by folioRead 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. 154
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Awesome work being done on one of the best free and open biblical studies tools 020
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A helpful introduction to the Miqra al Pi Hamasorah project and how it differs from other digital editions. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...creators.spotify.comA Resource You've Never Heard About by Working for the Word - a Bible translation podcastMiqra 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... 020
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Would it be too weird to try to crowd fund a low cost academic project? Estimating the cost would be about $100, exclusively for inference. 000
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A 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...christiantechjobs.ioAdjunct Faculty, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics at Indiana Wesleyan UniversityIndiana 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! 000
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Ok NYT, that is a terrifying way to start a sentence 000
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026What is the point of Amazon prime? I pay for a service that lets me pay for movies? Just stream the movie or don’t 000
Reposted by Charles LoderMarijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026In 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... 27434
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Will 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? 010
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Chet & Dolly — "Do I ever cross your mind" www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyRq...youtube.comChet Atkins, Dolly Parton "Do I ever Cross Your Mind'YouTube video by daffydoug 010
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I 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. 020
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The 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… 130
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Using a 3D printer for the first time. My print isn't even done, but I know I'm addicted 000
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 08/08/2026we need a complete and total moratorium on floating shelves 020
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Any works out there on grapholinguistics and Hebrew? 011
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Trying to proofread endnotes in English in a book that is set RTLstatic.klipy.comMeonly: Confused Math Lady MemeALT: Meonly: Confused Math Lady Meme 000
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Today I heard Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah at a very Christian funeral, all the verses 130
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Used 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 012
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Indexing 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. 110
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Though correct, this image will never cease to confuse me more on the matter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recto_a... 010
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 03/07/2026ISO 259 uses s̀ to transliterate and unpointed shin character, and I don't know how I feel about that still 000
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Just recently used ChatGPT. Does it often use first-person now??? I feel like it didn’t use to do that 000
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Added some new options to Hebrew Transliteration App: - Ketiv/Qere pairs - "on complete" callback The settings UI is getting a bit cramped! 110
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Had a moment of inspiration and wanted to sketch out this idea. Not sure if SBL Hebrew is the best font for this though… 061
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Years 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? 210
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 09/06/2026e2e tests are to integration tests, like preaching is to bible study 000
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Developed 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 020
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Just doing my part to train the next batch of AI 010
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 01/06/2026The 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 000
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Are 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 120
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...kw.lmu.deMaster's program Digital Cultural HeritageOur 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... 020
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Is Codex Sassoon no longer available via Ktiv? If so, why? 000
Reposted by Charles LoderBenjamin 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.ukPastor leads leads wild dedication ceremony for Trump’s giant gold statueThe president himself called into the ceremony to thank the religious leader and guests in attendance 3163
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Collection of photographs from 1917 of Samaritan Passover publicdomainreview.org/collection/s...publicdomainreview.orgPhotographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)Images from a ritual practised for 127 generations. 000
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 05/05/20263yo: Jet starts with “d”! me: you’re not wrong, but no one will believe you Toddler is surprisingly good at noticing affricates 130
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Interesting 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. 110
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Any unambiguous examples of a word in construct taking a disjunctive accent? Need some testing data 100
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Compiled 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...docs.google.comTerms for Agentic EngineeringTerms 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... 010
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Memory, Tools, RAG — at what point do we drop the terms and just say, "Adding Context from an external source"? 000
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 000
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! 132
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Got a redesign cooking, and checkout that favicon! 120
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 03/03/2026At 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...dlato.osu.eduTeaching 21st-Century Phoenician Epigraphy: Digital Edition of the Karatepe Inscription | DLATO 000
Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Dumped 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...claude.aiShewa Pronunciation Flowchart: Hebrew Vowel GuideLearn when Hebrew shewa is silent or vocal with this interactive flowchart. Determine shewa pronunciation based on position, preceding vowels, and consonant quality. 000