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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ok NYT, that is a terrifying way to start a sentence

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 · 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 · 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 · 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

Any idea why the kaf is doubled here?

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I didn't realize parabible had a public API! SAving this for myself for later

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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 · 17/02/2026

Strunk and White would've have hated this

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Adobe is a $110B company, and not a single designer thought—hey, when someone is searching for a comment, they may accidentally close the comment pane instead of clearing their search Every. Freaking. Day

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Excited to share the MVP I've been building: a IIIF-powered application for reading medieval Hebrew manuscripts, powered by AI annotations. The technical setup: ai-generated bounding boxes (detailed in a previous post) + Content State API for verse navigation.

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Google's latest Agentic Visions for #Gemini is amazing!!! I had it create a bounding box for a #iiif annotation for Gen 1:3 on the Leningrad Codex supplying some context about dimensions and thinking, and the results are better than anything yet

IIIF annotation of Genesis 1:3 generated by Google's Gemini 3 Agentic Vision

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

According to Gemini in GMail, my going rate for an index is $40/page! AI is going to make me so rich

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

A quick POC of using AI (Gemini 3 Pro) to create #iiif annotations to find verses in the Leningrad Codex. Born out of my incompetence at reading manuscripts! #hebrew #digitalhumanities

A IIIF annotation highlighting the start of Genesis 1:1 in the Leningrad Codex

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

When editing PDFs, is anyone still using traditional proofreading marks?

A list of traditional proofreading marks, with examples for deletion, insertion, spacing, etc.

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

So when you search for Times New Roman, Google displays the results in TNR!

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Ok, I assume this is totally incorrect, can anyone verify for me just how incorrect this is

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

There's a lot going on in the latest #clover-ai v0.5 🎉 Check out the demo 👇 there's: custom functionality, #iiif annotations, and Gemini 3.

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

This idea has been rattling in my head. Instead of focusing on how "intelligent" a model is, the real power of LLMs shines when their intelligence is constrained by limiting what data the model can draw on. Not sure if I'm missing anything in this graph

A graph with the title "Constraining LLM Intelligence" with the Y-axis labeled "Powerful" and the X-axis labeled "Portable". Four techniques are displayed in a downward slope with starting with "Fine tuning" then "RAG" then "Tool Calling" then "Prompting."

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Had to make an account just to try out a sandboxed version of an API, and on top of that you HAVE to subscribe to the newsletter

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

In true dev fashion, I may be over engineering the job search

Google Sheets query: =CONCATENATE("site:", TRIM(site_query!B2), " ", TEXTJOIN(" AND ", TRUE, ARRAYFORMULA("(" & content_query!$B$2:B & ")")))

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

People are sleeping on GoogleAi's #Gemma 3n models. They run entirely on-device, they're fast, and they're surprisingly capable. Here it is transcribing a letter — no API calls, just local inference on a Mac M2. Watch that GPU usage!

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

My app made it into the Baker Acacemic/Brazo's Style Manual! Is this the editorial mountain top?!

Hebrew and Greek transliteration should follow the patterns presented in SBLHS (5.1.1; 5.3), which also provides detailed guidance on applying these transliteration schemes to specific cases. Charles Loder’s transliteration app (https://hebrewtransliteration.app/#) can be used to confirm the correct form of Hebrew transliteration when you are uncertain.

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I was so tempted to click on this ad

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Experimenting with a custom Gemini command for adding alt text. Gemini CLI can: - fetch the accessibility guide for context - fetch the images and understand them This allows for good alt text. Not just a description of the image, but text that is related to the context

A code snippet of a Gemini custom slash command for generating alt text. The code says:

```toml
description = "Asks the model to check for image tags without any alt text, and add text based on surrounding context."

prompt = """
Find all image image alt text that is empty and add descriptive alt text based on the surrounding context.

When writing alt text, consider the context of where and how the image is being used.
The surrounding text of the document, website, or email may affect which parts of the image are most important to describe.

Follow this guide: https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-content-images
"""
```

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Mulling over "silent" and I think it has potential! The word currently is getting syllabified as 'וַ' and 'יַּ֫רְא', so the second syllable could be parsed like below. Sorry for all the code!

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Maybe just "initial consonant" and "final consonant" would be the orthographic analogs?

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Would it be wrong to say for the 2nd syllable that "the nucleus is a hiriq-yod" I feel like it's conflating different types of terminology

The hebrew word יַשְׁמִ֞יד with a hiriq-yod in the second syllable

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Big news on the LinkedIn, Baker acquires Lexham Press:

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

v0.4.0 of clover-ai adds two new exciting features: • Canvas context • Tool calling The first user message in the video demonstrates both of these.

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Ran into an "Excessive complexity" error with these:

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Once it found everything, it created the .ris file!

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The last entry was an article, not a book so it wasn't in the Open Library's data. Claude went and did a web search.

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Using an unofficial MCP server for the Open Library API (from Internet Archive), it searched for and got bibliographic data for two items github.com/8enSmith/mcp...

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

A fun quick experiment with MCP! I gave Claude a very short PDF (2 pages) with only 3 citations from a small paper I wrote a while back in grad school. I asked it find the books in the paper and generate a .ris file for importing into Zotero

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

C'mon put a little effort into your scams

A scam email with the vaguest language possible:

Hello! I recently read your research published on Academia.edu and was deeply impressed by your insights.
Your research aligns closely with my own interests, and I believe there may be opportunities for meaningful collaboration or exchange of ideas.
If you are willing, I would be happy to explore possible collaborations, whether sharing resources, exchanging ideas, or participating in future research projects. Since I don't check email often, could you please share your phone number or use WhatsApp or Telegram? These are my preferred contact methods.

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Abbreviations can't hide from me!

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Acc. to SBL when citing a web page, it should include the "owner or sponsor" of a site. Zotero calls this field "Website Title." And neither of those are encoded in any real way in a site. The page has a title, and it's hosted on a domain. Maybe a meta tag could supply this?

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I'm continuing to work on clover-ai in my spare time, and trying to build more in public. Below is a Latin ms from the CA State Library via @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social. The transcription isn't perfect, but for mss which may never be transcribed, these models can do a lot with little effort

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The role: Senior Software Engineer (React UI) The qualifications:

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Dear authors, Please learn how to use style guides in Word. This is not how you make a bibliographic entry.

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

What does the superscript "b" mean?

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