I was invited to speak at Data Reuse Days 2025 and presented on February 27th. My talk was titled "169k Reasons to Care: Wikidata’s Role in Open Library Author Pages." I was finally inspired to post about it after visiting Orlando Code Camp. Because ...
In Part 1 of our Vue migration journey at Open Library, I expressed frustration with the tooling's lack of support for our specific use case. However, I'm pleased to report that we've found an elegant solution. You can view the final implementation i...
Update Feb, 2025: Vue Migration Part 2 - A Simple Solution Emerges TL;DR: Migrating Vue 2 Web Components to Vue 3 isn't as straightforward as the docs suggest. We tackled three main challenges: setting up Vite builds, managing multiple components, a...
Software developers often avoid maintenance work, partly because companies rarely incentivize it. This is one reason why some tech companies have a reputation for abandoning products after launch. But maintenance is important, which is why I'm doing ...
Every October, Open Library hosts a community celebration where volunteers showcase their work from the past year. I had the pleasure of presenting at this year's celebration and would like to share my presentation here. On a side note, during my rec...
Back in April, I generated this Open Library collection about the Kingdom of Hawai’i. Here’s a short blog post about how and why. Why did I pick this topic? I lived in Hawai'i for about a year so I have an affinity for the topic. (I also maintain a ...
