Claudine Chionh

Newbie archivist and recovering webdev

The spring/summer edition

I’ve made a few not-very-major changes here. ...

17 Mar 2024 · Claudine Chionh

Status 2023

Oh hi, it’s been a while. ...

22 Jun 2023 · Claudine Chionh

Customised Covid-19 alerts

Since my last post, the number of Victorian Covid-19 exposure sites has climbed to over 1000. It isn’t healthy for me to park myself on that page and constantly refresh it, or to constantly watch Twitter for case updates and press conferences. I’ve built a couple more small tools to send me alerts when they’re relevant, so I don’t need to have those browser tabs of doom open all the time....

3 Sep 2021 · Claudine Chionh

Victorian Covid-19 exposure site highlighter

At the time of writing, there are over 800 entries on the Victorian government’s table of public Covid-19 exposure sites. The associated map isn’t always up-to-date with the table, and even with the various sorting methods and the single-suburb filter, it can take a while to identify sites in the suburbs that you care about. I have built a very rudimentary browser userscript that supplements this table by allowing you to identify multiple suburbs of interest and highlight the rows for these suburbs in background colours of your choice, differentiating between exposure tiers 1-3....

27 Aug 2021 · Claudine Chionh

A new introduction for 2020

I’m about to meet a lot of new people in my Information Management course and online, so here’s a bit about myself, 2020 version. As a young Generation Xer (a ‘Xennial’?) I have grown up with modern society’s transition from lifelong careers to multiple careers. I first enrolled in the Master of Information Management at RMIT in 1999 when I was working as a library officer at the City of Boroondara, but was lured away by a career in public health and research data management....

3 Feb 2020 · Claudine Chionh