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FOCUS: On Re-Meeting bCourses, UC Berkeleya€™s CMS:
When I run into systems that get in my way relative to systems that I remember having decades agoa€l
What I want the webpage to look like:
Lecture Notes:
2022-01-26 Th: Malthusian Logic
Required Readings:
Clark: A Farewell to Alms chs. 2-5 <https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/files/8504Q117>
Optional Readings:
Brad DeLong: Lecture Notes: The Solow Growth Model: Malthusian Economies
<http://datahub.berkeley.edu/user-redirect/interact?
account=braddelonq&repo=history-of-economic-growth-theory-readings&branch=main&path=heg-growth-theor
y.ipynb>|
In order to get this up onto Berkeleya€™ s bCourses websitea€’’which I am returning to after a fall
sabbatical semestera€”I would prefer to use John Grubera€™ s wonderful Markdown
<https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>, and type:
**Lecture Notes:**
> 2022-07-26 Th: Malthusian Logic
**Required Readings:**
> **Clark ; A Farewell to Alms chs. 2-5 <https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/files/85040117>
Optional Readings: *
> * Brad DeLong: **_Lecture Notes: The Solow Growth Model: Malthusian Economies_
<http://datahub.berkeley.edu/user-redirect/interact?account=braddelong&repo=history-
of-economic-growth-theory-readings&branch=main&path=heg-growth-theory.ipynb>
But I cana€™ t. So I type into bCoursesa€™ s WYSIWYG editor and punch some formatting buttons.
bCourses produces an underlying html layer.
What I would consider a€ceacceptablea€D html:
<pxstrong> Lecture Notes: /strongx/p>
<blQ.QKaW.Q.te><P> 2022-01-26 Th: Malthusian Logic</px/blQ.Qto.Qte>
<hr />
<pxstrong>Required Readings: :/strongx/p>
<b.lQ.QkQU.Q.te><pxstrong>Clark</strong>: <em>A Farewell to Alms</em> chs. 2-5 <a href-
https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/files/
85040117'^ https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/files/85040117</ax/px/blockquote>
<hr/>
<pxstrong Optional Readings:</strongx/p>
<blQ.QbQW.Qte.xpxstronf Brad DeLong: strong> <em> Lecture Notes: The Solow Growth Model: Malthusian
Economies</em> <a
href='http://datahub.berkeley.edu/user-redirect/interact?account=braddelong&arrip;repo=history-of-ec
onornic-growth-theory-
readings&branch=main&path=heg-growth-theory.ipynb'>http://datahub.berkeley.edu/user-redirect
/interact?
account=braddelong&repo=history-of-economic-growth-theory-readings&branch=main&path=heg-growth-theor
y.ipynb</ax/p></
blockquote>|
But this is the underlying html code that Berkeleya€™ s CMS wants to give me:
1 <p><span><strong>Lecture Notes :</strongx/spanx/p>
2 <p>2022-01-26 Th: <a class="inline_disabled"
href="https://braddelong.substack.eom/p/day-3-lecture-notes-the-logic-of"
target="-blank" rel="noopener">Malthiisian Logic</a> <a class="inline_disabled
external"
href="https://braddelong.substack.com/p/introduction-to-history-of-economic" target-'-blank"
rel="noopener"><sgan
class-'external_link_icon" rote-'presentation"><sgan c\ass="screenreader-only">Links to an external
site.</span></span>
</a></p>
3 <hr />
4 <pxstrong>R</strong><strong>equired Readings :</strongx/p>
5 <p class="ally-file-link-holder" style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong>Clark</strong>: <em c\ass="a
Ily-file-link-holder">
<img class="ally-accessibility-score-indicator-image"
src="https://prod.ally.ac/static/ally-icon-indicator-medium-
circle.4428c6d77d3c6c6de8alcf6a36e70408.svg" alt="" /xa class="inline_disabled"
href="https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/files/85040117" target="-blank" rel="noopener" data-api-
endpoint="https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/api/vl/files/85040117" data-api-returntype="File"
data-id="85040117">A Farewell to
Alms</ax/em> chs. 2-5<br /><emx/emx/p>
6 <hr />
7 <pxstrong>Optional Readings :</strong></p>
8 <p style-'padding-left: 40px;"xspan><strong>Brad DeLong</strong>: </spanxemxspan>Lecture Notes:
The Solow Growth
Model</spanxstrong>; </strongxspan>Lecture Notes: Malthusian Economies <</spanx/emxa
WHY, in the Holy Name of THE ONE WHO IS, WHY?
Yes, I understand that you are really not supposed to look at the html in a CMS. Yes. Still: BUT
WHY!?
I just want plain-vanilla text, bold, italic, and <links> that behave in a default way. I have no
need for things to be of the 'inline_disabled' class; for 'target' tags so that some links to open
in the current and some links to open in a new tab/windowa€’’either one would be fine, if it were
consistenta€”for a distinction between links that go into and links that go outside the CMS; for
'data-api-endpoint', 'data-
api-returntype', and 'data-id's, all of which are implicit in the target url; for pointless
'<emx/em>' and other null tags left in the html stream; and for pointless '<span>a€!</span>' tags.
(I can approve of 'rel=a€Dnoopenera€LT; and I understand, and can forgive, the social-engineering
nudges involved in the accessibility-score dial.)
It is more than purely Alsthetic.
At least once a day, when editing something in bCoursesa€™ s WYSIWYG editor, something goes wrong
and I do have to drop into html to see (most recently, why shift-return has not generated a simple
'<br />' but instead something really weird). I then have to undertake a five-minute de-crufting
process before I can see what is going on. And so I am knocked out of my flow.
a€oeJohn Henry and the steamhammer!a€D you say? No! I love steamhammers! But the steamhammer should
be a well-designed steamhammer, with proper affordances. It should be something like Markdown! It
is Markdown! But if you search bCourses help for a€oemarkdowna€n:
Berkeley
markdown|
0 Results Sort by | Relevance
Your search did not return any results: markdown
Yes, I should spring and pay $15 for Typora <https://typora.io> or some such, and write-and-paste.
Maybe this past week of semester-start and renewed contact with bCourses will induce me to do soa€!
And, meanwhile, elsewhere in infotech gone wrong: Chat-GPT tells me that right now I am best known
as the author of Slouching Towards Utopia: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century and of The
Fist of Contrition: A History of the Public Debt of the United States.
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