How I start my Monday...
Posts by Cato Minor
Finally, I can leave my watch at home.
The diagnosis seems to be clear: I have started building a retro gadget museum—probably a typical coping mechanism for middle-aged men.
I had this though since we had the Ruse of Reuse workshop in Vienna. Can I use current VLMs to provide me with transcription of text in MANU and add it as a transcription block? Seems I can. This one is done with Gemini 3 Flash, quite impressive.
#IIIF #DigitalHumanities
A fun fact: it has two enter keys!
What a beauty. I have bought Casio BN-40 from 1998/1999 (if I found it well). Time for Retro Digital Humanities?
Lets add a bit more AI!
I decided to solve the terminological issue regarding Digital Humanities, Computational Humanities and Humanities Computing. #dh #digitalhumanities
Working hard on my presentation.
Remarkable 2 and Viwoods AiPaper. Viwoods AiPaper has slightly larger screen but it is lighter and its overall dimensions are smaller.
Join the hybrid #HTR event organized by Rita Sawaya (University of Toronto) on 20 March 2026, 10:00–12:00 EST, featuring three IMAFO speakers: Jan Odstrčilík, Ephrem Ishac, and our collaborator Anna Michalcová. #dh #htr #ocr #atr
ZOOM:
utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Finally reading Harry Potter in Latin. And it is weird: weird vocabulary, weird syntax. Both feels very "English". It feels a little bit like reading a medieval Latin text, where you feel the vernacular language behind it. I still have fun though.
I will try to use Roam research for a couple of weeks again. It feels actually quite okay after that time.
I opened Roam Research after a long time ... and it is like travelling in time. There are all those old notes I did and my old CSS still work! No idea what is happening now with the tool. Are there many people still using it? Hopefully yes.
23/24 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar. How well do you know the Middle Ages? Guess the location where a ‘photo’ was taken (i.e., how the AI imagined the place). (Use your computer for the best experience.)
advent-calendar.humanities.tools
#dh #geoguessing #humanities #humanities #ai
22/24 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar. Do you have many pictures of books and articles taken with your camera? Deskew and clean them using Photoscan Helper.
#dh #ai #humanities
advent-calendar.humanities.tools
19/24 of our DH Vibe Coding Calendar. re approaching the finish line! Today: Ever wanted to replace some characters in PageXML? Try our vibe-coded PageXML Transformer! It might even work! #atr #htr #vibecoding #dh advent-calendar.humanities.tools
"You are an expert Latin Paleographer" and by "you", I mean "you - LLM" :). Try it out! #htr #atr #dh
HTR Winter School 2025 is underway, with Czech medievalists as well ✨ @digilab-imafo.bsky.social @burnedlegate.bsky.social @martin.rocek.dev @catominor.bsky.social
The final sign of decline is when you start to design your todo app... instead of working on more important things.
Simulate CER! The most exciting simulator ever built.
Struggling with the interoperability between Transkribus and eScriptorium? Try our convertor. #atr #htr
The master is always right!
Hard challenge! Can you beat it? ;) Maybe @scholipeta.bsky.social ?
Something we are doing right now :). Every day a Vibe coded app until Christmas. :D
Day six of our DH Vibe Coding Calendar is here! 📅 Ever dreamed of becoming a composer 🎼? Now you can become a Unicode Composer! Try out our new vibe-coded tool and start creating (composite unicode characters) today.
advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #unicode #mufi #digitalhumanities
Luckily not! I resisted and did not buy it second hand. This never ends! :D
Sounds great! So I will test copying the document. I used Leaflet as a simple companion site to my academic poster but now it would be great to have it under a simpler domain and together with future sites.
And the award for the best design and user experience in the button department of public transport comes to the trinity of buttons in Prague trams. A fun fact: if you want to get out of the tram with a baby carriage, you have to press the small black button twice.
@leaflet.pub Is there a possibility how to move an existing leaflet doc to a publication? :)