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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

I was halfway through making the fourth peanut butter and jelly sandwich for today's kid lunch bags when my phone chirped at me. I saw the email subject "Maurice Manning". I'm not even sure what I assumed in the split-second before I read it... read more

Poster for Spectrums of DH talk [/assets/images/multilingual_dh_poster.jpg] The following was my presentation at the McGill DH Spectrums of DH series. The images were displayed as Zoom backgrounds during the talk... read more

The following are my remarks for the DH 2020 "Tool Criticism 3.0" workshop [https://dls.hypotheses.org/1110] hosted by the Digital Literary Stylistics SIG. If you'd like to enjoy it in video form (it's fast-paced and colorful and fairly fun for this kind of talk)... read more

The following is a transcript of a video I put together for the DHSI 2020 project management workshop [https://dhsi.org/dhsi-2020/dhsi-2020-project-management/]. I usually prefer text to video, myself... read more

These were my 3-minute comments for a small-group discussion at the DARIAH VX [https://www.dariah.eu/2020/05/14/dariah-virtual-exchange-session-what-is-coming-next/] Breakout session 4: DH Methods and Tools Gone Wrong... read more

“Turn it OFF!” protested my almost-2-year-old as I sat in the kitchen on Wednesday morning, on a Zoom call with DARIAH folks from across Europe and the US. I plied her with a snack, but ultimately she prevailed when... read more

I’m writing this on a Saturday. I mention this not out of academic work-ethic virtue-signaling, but because it’s connected to the a sense of time unraveling, even over the course of a single week under the shelter-in-place mandate in the Bay Area... read more