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@chrysn@chaos.social
2025-07-13 00:27:10

The trailing slash problem of #WebDAV is just an instance of how file systems are too weakly typed. Operations on a file system should come with clear expectations of what is being accessed, not #POSIX's wish-wash "it's a file-like thing so interact with it and that interaction might fail" …

@bthalpin@mastodon.social
2025-09-05 17:43:48

Because I'm setting up materials again, and my blog on "Taming Brightspace for Linux" is serving as an aide-memoire, here are some details on using BrightSpace from Linux, bypassing as much as possible of its user interface by using webdav: brendanhalpin.net/blog/posts/w

Taming BrightSpace, for Linux users
Making the LMS work for you, not you for the LMS BrightSpace is our new Learning Management System here in UL, since last semester. I’m trying to use it as a tool, rather than experience it as a constraint. The first thing I wanted to do was to manage content with as little interaction as possible with the BS user interface. The interface is reasonably well designed, but it depends a lot (like most LMSes) on doing things one at a time, with lots of clicking and opening menus and SAVEs and CON…