James Truitt (he/him)
@linguistory@code4lib.social
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Digital Archivist at Swarthmore College. Interested in Quaker history, the history of science, and linguistics.
Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
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James Truitt (he/him)
@linguistory@code4lib.social
Digital Archivist at Swarthmore College. Interested in Quaker history, the history of science, and linguistics. Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
code4lib.social
James Truitt (he/him)
@linguistory@code4lib.social
Digital Archivist at Swarthmore College. Interested in Quaker history, the history of science, and linguistics. Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
code4lib.social
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6d ago
@TeamMidwest Literally my partner and I have been wondering about this pouch on our dog’s ear for 2.5 years now. Thank you for this PSA!
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James Truitt (he/him)
@linguistory@code4lib.social
Digital Archivist at Swarthmore College. Interested in Quaker history, the history of science, and linguistics. Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
code4lib.social
James Truitt (he/him)
@linguistory@code4lib.social
Digital Archivist at Swarthmore College. Interested in Quaker history, the history of science, and linguistics. Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
code4lib.social
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6d ago
@TeamMidwest Never heard this (I don't pay a ton of attention to dating discourse) but also yikes
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James Truitt (he/him)
@linguistory@code4lib.social
Digital Archivist at Swarthmore College. Interested in Quaker history, the history of science, and linguistics. Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
code4lib.social
James Truitt (he/him)
@linguistory@code4lib.social
Digital Archivist at Swarthmore College. Interested in Quaker history, the history of science, and linguistics. Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
code4lib.social
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Mar 20, 2026
Hey, #digipres folks, what algorithms do you use for periodic fixity checks on data at rest (esp. if stored in the cloud)?
CRC32 is tempting, because it's much faster than MD5 (and thus presumably cheaper in terms of compute, emissions, and money). However, I get the impression that it's not much used for this purpose. Is that because of collision worries? Not being cryptographically secure? Something else?
CRC32 is tempting, because it's much faster than MD5 (and thus presumably cheaper in terms of compute, emissions, and money). However, I get the impression that it's not much used for this purpose. Is that because of collision worries? Not being cryptographically secure? Something else?
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James Truitt (he/him)
@linguistory@code4lib.social
Digital Archivist at Swarthmore College. Interested in Quaker history, the history of science, and linguistics. Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
code4lib.social
James Truitt (he/him)
@linguistory@code4lib.social
Digital Archivist at Swarthmore College. Interested in Quaker history, the history of science, and linguistics. Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
code4lib.social
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Mar 09, 2026
Hi #digipres folks, does anyone have experience working with FileMaker 12 files? I'm trying to do QC on migrating data out of them, and a tool to display in batch how many records are in each file would be very useful
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James Truitt (he/him)
@linguistory@code4lib.social
Digital Archivist at Swarthmore College. Interested in Quaker history, the history of science, and linguistics. Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
code4lib.social
James Truitt (he/him)
@linguistory@code4lib.social
Digital Archivist at Swarthmore College. Interested in Quaker history, the history of science, and linguistics. Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
code4lib.social
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Mar 06, 2026
I really love this annotated definition of #digipres that Natasha Fisher (digital archivist at arquives.ca) gave at #c4l26.
In fact, I've printed it out to put on the bulletin board by my desk!
In fact, I've printed it out to put on the bulletin board by my desk!
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James Truitt (he/him)
@linguistory@code4lib.social
Digital Archivist at Swarthmore College. Interested in Quaker history, the history of science, and linguistics. Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
code4lib.social
James Truitt (he/him)
@linguistory@code4lib.social
Digital Archivist at Swarthmore College. Interested in Quaker history, the history of science, and linguistics. Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
code4lib.social
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May 07, 2024
@anj This is beautifully written—I love the little bits of poetic assonance that break through the prose
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