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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

As I write this, universities worldwide are shutting down in-person classes (or instruction altogether) and urging undergraduate students to leave. For the moment, libraries are typically remaining open... read more

When I finished writing Drupal for Humanists on July 15, 2015, my Magic-the-Gathering-playing, arithmetic-doing kindergartener was a barely-verbal toddler. The night I finished the manuscript was memorable in more ways than one... read more

These were my comments framing the "Methodology as Community: Fostering Collaboration Beyond Scholarly Societies" panel at DH 2019 in Utrecht, with Peter Haslinger, Antonina Puchkovskaia, Seth Bernstein... read more