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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

I was 15 when the Cyrillic alphabet shifted from an exotic set of vaguely-familiar symbols to something I could read. After attending high school in Argentina for a summer as an exchange student (where I was first introduced to Harry Potter and his “piedra filosofal”)... read more

Introductory note: I intended this talk, given at the "On the Benefits of Failure" workshop [https://novel-tm.ca/?p=807] at the University of Alberta in March 2018 (video available here [https://era-av.library.ualberta.ca/media_objects/avalon:42992])... read more

I've never really thought of myself as fashionable in any sense-- I can count every pair of shoes I own on one hand, own no makeup at all, and pick up clothing staples at the local Goodwill on half-price days... read more

Here comes winter [http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8478/8159721512_9667e624b2_m.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/8159721512/AcWriMo completely failed to have the effect I'd hoped for, but I'm taking it as a sign of a positive change... read more

[/assets/blog/acwrimo.png]http://www.phd2published.com/2012/10/15/announcing-acwrimo/At the beginning of August, I moved from Chicago to Berkeley. It's been a wonderful change that has come with many upsides... read more

As I've announced elsewhere [http://drupal.forhumanists.org/blog/2012/07/11/drupal-humanists-now-website], Drupal for Humanists is launching today on its own domain. I wanted to make sure that there was at least one case study available before launch... read more

Writing a book is hard. [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5463/7422686278_3afba45850_n.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/7422686278/It's been about six months since Elijah Meeks and I kicked off our plan to write a book on Drupal for an audience of humanists... read more

When spring comes to the University of Chicago campus, there are two annual events that inject a certain whimsical randomness into my work week: Scav Hunt [http://scavhunt.uchicago.edu/] and FOTA (Festival of the Arts) [http://fota.uchicago.edu/]... read more