Vitty
February 23rd 2022"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
Eleventy and Me
February 10th 2022Like 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
Maurice
April 20th 2021I 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
What's a 'word': Multilingual DH and the English Default
October 15th 2020Poster 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
'It Doesn't Work': Failure and DH Tools
July 21st 2020The 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
Rolling the Dice on Project Management
June 6th 2020The 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
Remarks for 'DH Methods and Tools Gone Wrong: Discoveries, Failures & Advice for the Future'
May 28th 2020These 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
Pandemic, Parenting, Pedagogy
March 27th 2020“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
Working conditions
March 21st 2020I’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
The Stakes of Multilingual DH in the United States
March 13th 2020As 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