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Jacob W. Peterson

@jacobwpeterson.com
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Manuscripts and JavaScript | PhD, NT Textual Criticism, U. of Edinburgh | Software Engineer | Trail Ultrarunner | Immigrant | Boomer Sooner 📍: Edinburgh, Scotland jacobwpeterson.com Visiting Scotland? myScotlandGuide.com

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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 24/09/2026
Now with mobile device support for those of you who can’t get enough manuscript time into your commute
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 03/09/2026
2) Mobile version. Some nav items hide/shrink and you only get one viewer at a time. But combined with (1) above, toggling back and forth between sources isn't a real problem. Touch gestures supported by both viewers
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 03/09/2026
A major update released today. In addition to a11y and perf improvements, there are 3 features worth mentioning. 1) Per-source position memory aka the viewers remember your position, scroll, and zoom level for each page so you can toggle back and forth without needing to find your place again
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 01/08/2026
Successful weekend already. Bought 3.2kg of focaccia for £10
A big ass focaccia
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 14/06/2026
Gun Alba, Gun Phàrtaidh!
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 12/06/2026
A pie chart with four sections. The legend also has four keys: salary, wellness, stable mental health, and confidence for your future. None of the four match the pie chart.
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 01/03/2026
And now user accounts with permanent storage so you can access your progress across devices. This also allows more classroom friendly features like injecting email addresses into the downloadable progress reports. For the nerds, it's an implementation of Supabase for auth and the database.
A screenshot of a sign in modal
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 27/01/2026
The site now includes a dashboard view summarising all your progress and a navigation item allowing you to pick up where you left off.
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 27/12/2025
And I should have an onboarding flow added tonight with all the information from this thread that you’ll see the first time you visit the lessons page
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 27/12/2025
Then it's just a matter of making it through all the lessons At the top of the page, you can click the "Gear" icon to toggle settings for Dark mode, plus font size and contrast options for users with vision-based accessibility concerns. There's also an option to reset all your answers
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 27/12/2025
If you're a teacher and having students do this for a class, at the end of each lesson is the option to download a report. This basically creates a PDF of the right hand side of the page
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 27/12/2025
Get the right number of letters, but still have something wrong? Now the help tooltip will give you the locations of incorrect letters.
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 27/12/2025
If your answer is too short or too long, you'll also get a helpful message. Trying to force people to make honest guesses, it only says short or long after three attempts. Before that, it just says "Answer is incorrect"
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 27/12/2025
Clicking the "Check" button at the end of the line evaluates the answer. Here, it's correct and you see the check-circle. But what happens when things go wrong? Forget to switch your keyboard? It will let you know (and link you to the section of the guide on setting up keyboards)
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 27/12/2025
When you encounter new concepts or tricky sections, there is some help given under the line. For some concepts, this also links to a longer discussion in the glossary
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 27/12/2025
Within that right side, you can click to require the answer to be correctly spaced. By default, you can input continuous text. There's also a quick link to the guide. Below that, a progress tracker. In this lesson the first line is a title, so the user gets special instructions
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 27/12/2025
So how does this work? Here's lesson 1. On the left, a Mirador viewer using @iiif.bsky.social manifests. On the right, the transcription area. At the top, a general introduction to the lesson, often highlighting pitfalls or oddities about that page, and instructions about the following exercises
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 10/12/2025
For those of you with personal Microsoft accounts you’ll likely have received notice of a large price increase hitting soon (due to AI). If you go through the cancellation flow, they offer a “classic” plan without AI for you to swap to at your existing price
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 08/12/2025
Half convinced these birds at the hospital are speaking Hebrew
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 05/05/2025
My dog doing his best RayGun impression
Black Labrador being bad at breakdancing
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 08/04/2025
Practically packed for the Birmingham TC Colloquium tomorrow
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 04/01/2025
It’s the fourth day of the year and my wife already has more citations than I got last year
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 10/12/2024
Is this mixed-memia?
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 28/11/2024
Exciting news today for something that's been in the works for far too long. I've signed a contract to produce a new edition and study of the text, hands, and paratexts of P46
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 23/11/2024
First snow of the season
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 21/11/2024
My response to Varner on Paul's "large letters" in Gal 6.11 in P46 is out as of this week in TC. It's available open access here: jbtc.org/v29/TC_Peter...
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 21/11/2024
Going to catch the feed up on recent developments with me. I have an article out in the latest NovT showing that GA 250 is a direct copy of GA 424. It's the first of a phenomenon I'm calling "fabschriften" (facsimile-Abschriften) that I've developed software for detecting. brill.com/view/journal...
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