I am an independent, untrained Citizen Scientist on a mission to unmask and wrestle into submission the insidious nature of the document structures of print era commercial magazines. I started down this circuitous road as a Pay-It-Forward commitment to atone for my inexplicable survival of a catastrophic battle with cancer…

A “You Might Like…” recommendation in a recent routine email from Academia.edu led me to Micheal Witmore’s 2010 blog post with the titillating title, “Text: A Massively Addressable Object.” At the time of its writing, Witmore was busy organizing and encouraging multi-disciplinary involvement in the Working Group for Digital Inquiry…

CoT (Chain of Thought) for Goal-Directed Code-Generation — In my last two more-technical articles for this publication, I let myself go on a rather untethered envisioning of adding “Sherlockean” deductive thinking into the #HeyGitHub voice-coding dialogue between #DisabledDevelopers and the brilliant but savant-like “Rainman” GitHub Copilot code-generator. …

Looking and Feeling our Way to Future Code Generation — What do historical pattern books for wallpaper stencils, plaid cloth samples, and similar instructional materials for tried and true designs have to do with upping the game of code generation by voice-control interaction of GitHub’s recently announced “Hey, GitHub!” service? …

Machine-Learning Code Generation Will Not Replace Developers; It Will Free Us To Work At the Proverbial “Next Level” — Preface Note to GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, VP of GitHub Next Oege de Moor, and the GitHub Next Team: As a 71-year-old post-cancer #DigitalHumanities #CitizenScientist and now #DisabledDeveloper thanks to a recent spinal cord injury, I don’t have the luxury to be subtle and patient. So, I will state plainly…

Our Advisors Are World-Class Leaders It is most apparent that the primary beneficiary demographic of the proposed “GitHub Copilot for Disabled Developers” research study and support program is that of the participating disabled developers. The important secondary beneficiaries of this project’s agenda are the projects and organizations in which our participating developers will contribute their…

Humans-in-the-Loop of ‘GitHub Copilot for Disabled Developers’ The popular notion of synergy is that of “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” This idea is certainly relevant as I have ruminated and clarified my thinking about the research and program design of the proposed “GitHub Copilot for Disabled Developers” project. While the catalyst for…

Getting the Most Out of “GitHub Copilot for Disabled Developers” I read an insightful article by fast.ai’s Co-founding Researcher Jeremy Howard that set me back on my heels. His article drove me to think more deeply about the human element in my proposed GitHub Copilot for Disabled Developers research study and support program. The blog post on the fast.ai website…

I am excited to be participating in the “A Computational Periodicals Unconference: Exploring New Opportunities for Critical and Collaborative Inquiry” session on May 18th during the #DHUnbound2022 conference hosted by the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH). …