Cecily’s Book Tea
This tool was made for Ms. Cecily, who wanted a way to put in a list of book titles and get a description of each one in a CSV. Put in book titles, one per line, and click search. In a moment you’ll get a list of the titles you…
Use PD Prompt Machine to Make AI Prompts Using Public Domain Artists
I love playing with AI-powered image generators, but I don’t like the idea of using the artwork of artists who are trying to make a living. So I made PD Prompt Machine! PD Prompt Machine takes a random book title from the Internet Archive’s Open Library, and pairs it with…
Create Lifespan Web Searches with the Contemporary Biography Builder
As the volume of scholarship posted on the Internet increases by the day, it gets more difficult to find information about a subject that’s contemporary to them. Yes, research on Louisa May Alcott is extensive and important. But what were newspapers saying about her in 1854? The Contemporary Biography Builder…
Know What They Said On Twitter With Twitter Receipts
When someone’s talking on Twitter, get the receipts. Twitter Receipts has you enter a Twitter handle and a date, then queries The Wayback Machine for the closest snapshot of the Twitter handle to that date. Sometimes the Twitter interface might be in a different language, but all the content I’ve…
Generate and Search For Name Variants With Carl’s Name Net
Carl is a longtime Patreon, and I really appreciate him! Recently we’ve been trading emails about doing name-based searches. I was thinking about how he could get some name variation searching done when I wondered if this was a job for JavaScript. And it apparently is! Carl’s Name Net takes…