Charles Loder

24 Aug

I can now officially say that I started as a Software Engineer with The Seed Company 🎉 This is an amazing opportunity to help push forward the work of Bible translation. It's cliché, but I'm excited to see what this new chapter of life will bring.

Charles Loder@charlesloder.bsky.social

Today is my final day at Northwestern University. After 6 short months, I have been laid off due to the termination of the IMLS grant that funded my position. I worked with an amazing team that led that charge in integrating Ai powered tools wisely into museum & library science.

Massive shoutout to @anarchonurzox.com and @kmpenner.bsky.social! With their help over 50% of the Leningrad Codex has been encoded as a digital edition. If you'd like to get involved, checkout the link below github.com/charlesLoder...

github.comImprove getting started for agents by charlesLoder · Pull Request #576 · charlesLoder/leningrad-codex-teiTrying to be more agent first with this repo, so I added very specific agent skills for getting started and task specific jobs like getting folios

Trying to lower the barrier to entry even more for this project by adding a /getting-started skill Clone the repo, and call the skill. It walks you through the whole process! github.com/charlesLoder...

memento Maury

Added print styling so you can print a page similar to how it would appear L

leningradcodex.pageFolio 001B (verso) · Leningrad Codex TEIFolio 001B (verso) of the Leningrad Codex (Gen 1:1 – Gen 1:26), with transcription and facsimile image.

Checkout a page www.leningradcodex.page/folio/001b/

A real quick prototype adding in zones. - existing OCR data is added to verse milestones in the XML - a build pipeline converts the XML to #iiif manifests with annotations Still gotta figure something out—like if the OCR data in openly licensed!

James Cuénod 🇿🇦@jcuenod.bsky.social

Is it possible to show highlight/annotate the image given a verse reference?

A milestone for Leningrad Codex TEI: 181 of 924 folios are complete—nearly 20% of the codex is encoded! 📜 Thank you for the great feedback and discussions so far! Here’s an update on progress, new tools, and how you can get involved

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github.comleningrad-codex-tei/CONTRIBUTING.MD at main · charlesLoder/leningrad-codex-teiThe Leningrad Codex encoded as a TEI document. Contribute to charlesLoder/leningrad-codex-tei development by creating an account on GitHub.

The main bottleneck is AI inference. Contributors with a bit of technical experience and $5 can contribute greatly by helping spread cost around. The contributing guide + an agent means you don't even have to deal with code! github.com/charlesLoder...

leningradcodex.pageLeningrad Codex TEI — the oldest complete Hebrew Bible, folio by folioRead the Leningrad Codex online: an open, TEI-encoded edition of the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, browsable folio by folio with facsimile images.

Visit the site to see the latest updates and submit feedback www.leningradcodex.page

A built-in issue reporter has been added. You can now select lines directly on any folio to report line-break discrepancies, transcription errors, or layout issues

Gmail marking emails from Google products as spam is *chef's kiss*

@joshuaalfaro.bsky.social

An `AGENTS.md` file should NOT describe the codebase. It should only tell the agent: - how to respond - business needs not defined in code - maybe a little bit about code quality (or link to a separate coding standards doc) An agent will figure out the codebase on it's own. Thoughts?

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Joshua Alfaro

🧵New digital resources for Masoretic studies: a megathread. We're living in a golden age of digital tools for the study of the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible. This thread compiles recent resources, several of which have launched just this year.

openmasorah.comOpen Masorah — The Hebrew Bible, with its evidence shownAn open evidence layer for the Hebrew Bible. Every manuscript, every variant, every Masoretic note — brought fully into view.

"The project seeks to document and present both the Hebrew Bible and accompanying Masorah in a critical manner, attending to the full range of features preserved in manuscript" Also love the circules! www.openmasorah.com#overview

mat.digitalWebMCP in Cultural Heritage: Including Agent Users in UXHow the new WebMCP specification connects cultural heritage to researchers in AI workspaces, impacts user experience, and expands access to our material.

Cultural Heritage, WebMCP, and IIIF—the team at Northwestern really leads the way in AI and library science mat.digital/posts/webmcp...

A new project I'm excited to announce! 🎉 Leningrad Codex TEI leningradcodex.page A digital version of L, encoding the columnar layout of the biblical text using TEI. But I need contributors! (see below) Though the text of the mss has received much attention…

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Other goals are: - Accessibility by means of a site and permissive licensing (MIT) - Transparency through version control and links to prompts - Reproducibility by a pipeline that could be used by other models

If you'd like to get involved, there are Contributing guidelines on GitHub and my DMs are open!

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This project hopes to change that, by building on previous work and using AI tools to encode the text. A goal of this project is to make it a community based work with the purpose of alleviating the cost burden on an individual (that's me!) and ensuring that it is not tied to…

github.comGitHub - charlesLoder/leningrad-codex-tei: The Leningrad Codex encoded as a TEI documentThe Leningrad Codex encoded as a TEI document. Contribute to charlesLoder/leningrad-codex-tei development by creating an account on GitHub.

any org or funding structure which could halt work. Everything is available on GitHub github.com/charlesLoder...

little digital work has been done to consider L as an object. The TEI standard provides the framework for encoding the layout of the mss, and sets a foundation for future work—like encoding the Mp and Mm. We have hi-res images of L, but no way to quickly discover text in them

15 Sept

Awesome work being done on one of the best free and open biblical studies tools

James Cuénod 🇿🇦@jcuenod.bsky.social

Same old parabible.com (trialing) upgrade at new.parabible.com with too many awesome new things to mention. But I'll try briefly:

creators.spotify.comA Resource You've Never Heard About by Working for the Word - a Bible translation podcastMiqra according to the Masorah (מקרא על פי המסורה) is a Hebrew edition of the Tanakh in a digital online format under an open license. It is based on the Aleppo Codex and related manuscripts, and corr...

10 Sept

A helpful introduction to the Miqra al Pi Hamasorah project and how it differs from other digital editions. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

6 Sept

Would it be too weird to try to crowd fund a low cost academic project? Estimating the cost would be about $100, exclusively for inference.

christiantechjobs.ioAdjunct Faculty, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics at Indiana Wesleyan UniversityIndiana Wesleyan University is hiring for a Adjunct Faculty, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics. Apply now to take the next step of your Christian information technology career!

3 Sept

A really cool role if you like Jesus and AI "Indiana Wesleyan University is seeking experienced Adjunct Faculty to teach undergraduate and graduate applied A.I. courses in an online, asynchronous format." www.christiantechjobs.io/christian-jo...

1 Sept

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

30 Aug

What is the point of Amazon prime? I pay for a service that lets me pay for movies? Just stream the movie or don’t

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Marijn van Putten

@phdnix.bsky.social

27 Aug

In 2025 @bnuyaminim.bsky.social and me taught a course on Comparative Semitics at the Leiden Summer School. After some cleaning up, we've decided to upload the syllabus and release it under a CC license for you and yours to peruse through. doi.org/10.17613/b4z...

27 Aug

Will be going through the book of James in a bible study. What are good works about economic structure/disparity in the ancient world Is Longenecker's Remember the Poor a good starting point?

youtube.comChet Atkins, Dolly Parton "Do I ever Cross Your Mind'YouTube video by daffydoug

25 Aug

Chet & Dolly — "Do I ever cross your mind" www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyRq...

16 Aug

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…

16 Aug

…to 'make known via text based mediums' which is not what the text has in mind. It feels like an odd choice. Thoughts?

11 Aug

Using a 3D printer for the first time. My print isn't even done, but I know I'm addicted

8 Aug

we need a complete and total moratorium on floating shelves

6 Aug

Any works out there on grapholinguistics and Hebrew?

28 July

Trying to proofread endnotes in English in a book that is set RTL

18 July

Today I heard Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah at a very Christian funeral, all the verses

18 July

Used Gemma4 12b on MacBook M2 Air via Ollama-it’s slow and really only good for smaller tasks to be overnight but the fact you can do this stuff locally at such high quality is mind boggling

16 July

Indexing a book with lots of Latin and Greek sources…how do you classicists keep up with this?! Sometimes it's author + title, sometimes just an author, sometimes there's more numbers and letters than a quadratic equation, and ever so occasionally…brackets around the title.

16 July

It makes DSS citations seem almost sane…almost

7 July

Though correct, this image will never cease to confuse me more on the matter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recto_a...

3 July

ISO 259 uses s̀ to transliterate and unpointed shin character, and I don't know how I feel about that still

26 June

Just recently used ChatGPT. Does it often use first-person now??? I feel like it didn’t use to do that

23 June

Added some new options to Hebrew Transliteration App: - Ketiv/Qere pairs - "on complete" callback The settings UI is getting a bit cramped!

hebrewtransliteration.app

23 June

hebrewtransliteration.appHebrew Transliteration AppAccurate Hebrew transliteration app for academic, religious, or personal needs.

22 June

Had a moment of inspiration and wanted to sketch out this idea. Not sure if SBL Hebrew is the best font for this though…

19 June

I’m basically non-existent

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11 June

Years ago, when debating continuing in academia or jumping ship, I submitted an article. It was rejected, and the comments left me dejected. It pushed me to pursue tech, for which I'm happy. But lately I feel compelled to return to it Good or bad idea?