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The "DH origin story" has become a genre, as I'm reminded by Brandon Walsh's recent Scholars Lab post on his [https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/origin-story/]. I've written mine too, including a couple takes on coding at the Data-Sitters Club [https://datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc12.html#id2] at the Data-Sitters Club... read more

I woke up this morning to the news that it's Amanda Visconti and Brandon Walsh's 6-year anniversary at the Scholars' Lab [https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/]. Were I closer to UVA, I'd have spent lunchtime hunting down whatever local variety of celebratory snack is the custom... read more

It's been about a month since the deal closed on Twitter, and a sizable portion of the DH community that I count on for collaboration and community began trying out Mastodon. Between travel and a holiday week... read more

*CW: Doubts, cancer, grief, community, Twitter.* I've been on Mastodon for 3 weeks now, and this week I was starting to feel at loose ends with it all. I have the [list of close to 400 DH folks](https://tinyurl.com/dhmastodon) (please add yourself using the link at the top if you haven't!) I'm following nearly 900 people across a range of fields and hobbies that interest me... read more

I've been on Mastodon for two weeks (here's last week's musings [/blog/2022/11/06/a-week-with-mastodon/]), and the list of digital humanities people on Mastodon [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15Ak4VHCnr_4Stkzkz-_RhOgX-jCJMt0oq0GN9XXDaKo/edit#gid=229844055] that I created a week ago has over 330 people... read more

I joined Mastodon in late April 2022, when talk of a Musk acquisition of Twitter got serious and people started talking about finding other platforms. This news was emphatically not what I needed at that moment -- I was two months into SUCHO [https://sucho.org] and had my hands full... read more

Today is my mother's birthday. The internet told me; I haven't kept track for decades. I went looking for the date after reading a beautiful post by Ruth Kitchin Tillman about calculating when she'd reached half her mother's total years [https://ruthtillman.com/post/2018-04-22/]... read more

I've really been enjoying building sites with Eleventy instead of Jekyll. I'm still learning my way around some of the cool data capabilities, but NodeJS has been much more agreeable to wrangle than Ruby... read more

"17 years..." the veteranarian murmured in the room with dim lights. "Did you have him the whole time?" I nod. "It looks like he had a good mom... and a good brother too," she says, tilting her head towards Sam... read more

Like most folks roughly my age who spent their youth and adolescence as "computer people", my personal website has gone through multiple generations of technology, starting with hand-coded HTML, moving to WordPress... read more