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Restoring Old Digital History

Mar 24, 2026 Note

Vibing Digital History

Mar 9, 2026 Note

The Obsidian-Hugo Workflow

Mar 5, 2026 Note

Computers Can't Surprise

Mar 2, 2026 Note

A New Design for Readability

Mar 2, 2026 Essay

My Ideal Library

Jan 27, 2026 Note

“Fluent and Stranded”

Jan 11, 2026 Note

How I Use Obsidian Redux

Jan 8, 2026 Essay

Two Quotations on Interfaces

Dec 27, 2025 Note

Generative AI and the Work of History

Dec 22, 2025 Essay

The Christmas Movie Rotation

Dec 12, 2025 Note

Two Quotes on the Land

Oct 25, 2025 Note

The Farmall H Restoration, February Update

Feb 27, 2025 Essay

Living in the News

Feb 20, 2025 Note

Recovering U.S. Government Data and Websites

Feb 3, 2025 Note

Jan 21, 2025 Note

Jan 21, 2025 Essay

Lamentable Word

Jan 21, 2025 Note

Two Quotes on Owning Your Turf

Jan 21, 2025 Note

Returning to Firefox

Jan 19, 2025 Note

The blog's themes, summarized

Jan 4, 2025 Essay

Year of Foundations

Dec 27, 2024 Essay

Year-End Tech Report

Nov 26, 2024 Note

Becoming News-Resilient

Nov 8, 2024 Note

The Return of the Prairie Populists

Nov 2, 2024 Note

The Legacies of the Bundyville Stand-off

Oct 11, 2024 Note

How I Use Obsidian

Jul 15, 2024 Essay

May 23, 2024 Essay

Reflections on Becoming a Django Developer

May 21, 2024 Essay

Wendell Berry in The Unsettling of America google.com

Feb 5, 2024 Commonplace

Wendell Berry, "A Prayer after Eating" berrycenterbookstore.com

Feb 5, 2024 Commonplace

Doctorow on the AI Bubble locusmag.com

Feb 2, 2024 Commonplace

Are Print Books the New (Old) Authority?

Jan 20, 2024 Note

Andrew Hudgins, "The Cestello Annunciation" jstor.org

Dec 20, 2023 Commonplace

My Next Book's Publication Date

Dec 17, 2023 Note

Default Apps for 2023

Nov 29, 2023 Note

Building my Writing Study

Nov 20, 2023 Note

Spoiled Fruits: Environmental Inequality in Silicon Valley

Nov 1, 2023 Essay

63rd Annual Western History Association Conference

Oct 24, 2023 Note

Adding Conservation to BLM Land

May 30, 2023 Note

Where I've Been

May 30, 2023 Note

Mar 19, 2023 Essay

The Year of Work

Jan 26, 2023 Essay

Dec 19, 2022 Essay

Updating My RSS

Dec 15, 2022 Note

The Agency of Ice thefunambulist.net

Dec 8, 2022 Commonplace

New Avenues robinsloan.com

Dec 7, 2022 Commonplace

Running my Reading Log

Nov 23, 2022 Note

Web People megnut.com

Nov 22, 2022 Commonplace

Nov 19, 2022 Note

Embracing the Limits

Nov 18, 2022 Note

Thinking on the Collapse of Twitter robinsloan.com

Nov 9, 2022 Commonplace

Creativity and AI

Oct 16, 2022 Essay

Oct 11, 2022 Essay

Developer Notes: A quick and dirty text diff

Jun 24, 2022 Note

The URL is a Radical Act

Jun 23, 2022 Note

The State of Enchantment google.com

Jun 10, 2022 Commonplace

Accidental Universe google.com

Jun 10, 2022 Commonplace

This Age of Conformity dissentmagazine.org

Jun 10, 2022 Commonplace

Our Moloch nybooks.com

May 25, 2022 Commonplace

Owning Your Domain vickiboykis.com

May 24, 2022 Commonplace

How to Write Software With Mathematical Perfection quantamagazine.org

May 23, 2022 Commonplace

The emotions of life online newpublic.substack.com

May 23, 2022 Commonplace

May 14, 2022 Note

Apr 28, 2022 Note

Developer Notes: Converting Filenames to Metadata

Feb 11, 2022 Note

Towards a Stable Set of Tools

Jan 12, 2022 Essay

The Break from Twitter

Dec 29, 2021 Note

Dec 22, 2021 Note

Christmas Tunes

Dec 16, 2021 Note

A Day of Mourning

Nov 25, 2021 Note

Twitter Use at WHA2021

Nov 17, 2021 Essay

Oct 19, 2021 Essay

Aug 9, 2021 Commonplace

May 28, 2021 Essay

New Role: Developer at RRCHNM

May 17, 2021 Essay

Twitter Use at WHA2020

Oct 19, 2020 Essay

Twitter and Facebook moderating Trump campaign on misinformation washingtonpost.com

Aug 6, 2020 Commonplace

Annotating Biden's clean energy plan envirodatagov.org

Jul 31, 2020 Commonplace

Apple Pledges to Be Carbon Neutral by 2030 wsj.com

Jul 23, 2020 Commonplace

Twitter Begins Limiting the Spread of QAnon Conspiracy Theories nbcnews.com

Jul 22, 2020 Commonplace

John Lewis Dies at 80 ajc.com

Jul 17, 2020 Commonplace

Superfund Package

May 7, 2020 Essay

Apr 27, 2020 Note

Mar 27, 2020 Essay

Feb 19, 2020 Note

Feb 12, 2020 Note

Democratic Typography

Feb 10, 2020 Note

Nov 30, 2019 Essay

Nov 8, 2019 Essay

Twitter Use at WHA2019

Oct 22, 2019 Essay

Jun 23, 2019 Note

Alan Brinkley, RIP nytimes.com

Jun 17, 2019 Commonplace

How Silicon Valley Provides the Blueprint for Cleaning Up Our Drinking Water

Apr 26, 2019 Essay

Making my Budget Peloton

Feb 8, 2019 Note

Jan 2, 2019 Note

Twitter Use at WHA2018

Oct 23, 2018 Essay

Overcast 4.2 marco.org

May 7, 2018 Commonplace

Apr 14, 2018 Note

Advocacy, Training, and Awareness Through Endangered Data Week

Mar 2, 2018 Essay

Teaching the tidyverse to R novices

Feb 27, 2018 Note

Endangered Data Week

Feb 21, 2018 Note

Migrating to Hugo

Jan 12, 2018 Note

Dec 5, 2017 Note

How Silicon Valley Industry Polluted the Sylvan California Dream

Nov 14, 2017 Essay

Mapping Omaha Bikes

Sep 6, 2017 Note

Arguing with Digital History

Aug 18, 2017 Essay

Standing up for Net Neutrality

Jul 5, 2017 Essay

Recent Updates on Data Visualization

Jun 19, 2017 Note

Mapping Midwest

Jun 6, 2017 Essay

May 23, 2017 Note

Introducing Endangered Data Week

Apr 24, 2017 Essay

Digital History at the AHA: Workshops, Roundtables, Sessions

Dec 31, 2016 Note

Sep 22, 2016 Essay

Syllabus for Teaching Digital Public History

Aug 26, 2016 Essay

My Open History Notebook

Feb 9, 2016 Essay

Federal Policy, Western Lands, and Malheur

Jan 6, 2016 Essay

Visualizing the Wars of the United States

Sep 28, 2015 Essay

Jun 6, 2015 Note

United States Historical Cities Populations github.com

May 7, 2015 Commonplace

AeroPress Recipes toolsandtoys.net

Apr 9, 2015 Commonplace

The Budget Guide to NCPH elizabethcatte.com

Mar 22, 2015 Commonplace

How We Do DH blogs.library.duke.edu

Mar 19, 2015 Commonplace

D3 in Action amazon.com

Mar 12, 2015 Commonplace

Bulletproof Coffee: Debunking the Hot Buttered Hype gizmodo.com

Feb 21, 2015 Commonplace

Humanistic Approaches to Data Visualization

Jan 18, 2015 Essay

Interview with Matt Burton

Jan 10, 2015 Essay

The Machines in the Valley Digital History Project

Jan 2, 2015 Essay

The View from New York

Dec 31, 2014 Note

Teaching Digital History

Dec 30, 2014 Note

Research Design and Geography of the Post

Oct 30, 2014 Essay

CShapes: Historical Country Boundaries nils.weidmann.ws

Sep 21, 2014 Commonplace

Syllabus for Digital History

Sep 21, 2014 Note

First Draft Podcast: Liberation Technology firstdraftpodcast.com

Jul 29, 2014 Commonplace

First Draft Podcast: Humanities Savior Narrative firstdraftpodcast.com

Jul 22, 2014 Commonplace

Environmental History at the 2014 Western History Association Conference

Jul 17, 2014 Note

First Draft Podcast: The Pragmatic Tyranny of Building Digital Artifacts firstdraftpodcast.com

Jul 14, 2014 Commonplace

Simple Parsing CSV to JSON

Jul 12, 2014 Note

Editorial is a Powerful, Flexible iOS App for Text Editing

Jun 30, 2014 Essay

Use Copy for Cloud Storage Backup and File Sharing

Jun 23, 2014 Essay

What Does Missile Command Have to do with Digital History?

Jun 4, 2014 Essay

Day of DH: The Collaborative Historian

Apr 8, 2014 Essay

Day of DH: The Spatial Historian

Apr 8, 2014 Essay

Blue Bottle Buys Tonx wired.com

Apr 8, 2014 Commonplace

Western History and the California Drought

Feb 22, 2014 Essay

The Campaign Against Coffee theatlantic.com

Dec 30, 2013 Commonplace

Atlas of Historical Geography of the United States dsl.richmond.edu

Dec 25, 2013 Commonplace

Topotime dh.stanford.edu

Dec 23, 2013 Commonplace

Coffee Brewing Guides mistobox.com

Dec 22, 2013 Commonplace

Digital History Interview with BlogWest

Dec 17, 2013 Essay

Using Omekadd and Bash Together

Nov 17, 2013 Note

Converting Plain Text to PDF with Bash

Oct 30, 2013 Essay

Digital History at Stanford

Oct 18, 2013 Essay

Oct 2, 2013 Essay

Dr Bunsen Coffee Experiments drbunsen.org

Oct 1, 2013 Commonplace

Amazon Pairs Print and Digital Books bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Sep 3, 2013 Commonplace

The Forgotten Home of Coffee vimeo.com

Sep 1, 2013 Commonplace

Github for Writers madebyloren.com

Aug 30, 2013 Commonplace

Using Editorial and Bibkeys Together

Aug 21, 2013 Essay

Getting Started with D3

Aug 6, 2013 Note

Evernote Reminders blog.evernote.com

Jul 31, 2013 Commonplace

Don't Forget Google Reader Goes Dark Monday

Jun 27, 2013 Note

May 20, 2013 Essay

The Digital Public Library of America

Apr 28, 2013 Essay

Mendeley and Open Access zephoria.org

Apr 12, 2013 Commonplace

History Harvest Blitz Week

Apr 5, 2013 Note

Interview for Digital History@Rice

Mar 17, 2013 Essay

The Link Blog Experiment

Feb 23, 2013 Note

Secrets of Data Visualization netmagazine.com

Feb 23, 2013 Commonplace

The MOOC Bubble railroads.unl.edu

Feb 3, 2013 Commonplace

Parsing CSV Data with Ruby

Jan 27, 2013 Note

Defining Digital Humanities

Jan 8, 2013 Essay

E-book Readership Rising While Print Declines libraries.pewinternet.org

Dec 28, 2012 Commonplace

Digital Jubilee frankchimero.com

Dec 15, 2012 Commonplace

About Beards the-northwind.com

Dec 13, 2012 Commonplace

Perspective Icons for Omnifocus iconsandcoffee.com

Dec 13, 2012 Commonplace

Fussy Coffee travel.cnn.com

Dec 11, 2012 Commonplace

Using Text Expansion in My Research Workflow

Dec 7, 2012 Essay

Word Processor Mode in Vim

Dec 5, 2012 Note

New Job, Joining Stanford

Dec 3, 2012 Essay

1970s Homebrew Computer Club Newsletters digibarn.com

Nov 27, 2012 Commonplace

Remove Multiple Open With Entries in Finder simplicitybliss.com

Nov 26, 2012 Commonplace

OmniFocus Workflow and Notes

Nov 26, 2012 Note

Using AppleScript to Automate Notetaking

Nov 24, 2012 Essay

The Beards of Silicon Valley wired.com

Nov 23, 2012 Commonplace

The Silicon Prairie nytimes.com

Nov 21, 2012 Commonplace

Using Markdown Like an Academic

Nov 20, 2012 Essay

Lorem Ipsum Block in Sublime Text

Nov 17, 2012 Note

Searching My Brain

Nov 14, 2012 Note

What Your Web Design Says About You loopinsight.com

Nov 10, 2012 Commonplace

Star Wars Episode VII May Have Found Its Writer vulture.com

Nov 9, 2012 Commonplace

Evernote 5's New iOS Interface blog.evernote.com

Nov 8, 2012 Commonplace

Africa's Silicon Savannah guardian.co.uk

Nov 1, 2012 Commonplace

Ethiopian Kids Hack OLPCs dvice.com

Nov 1, 2012 Commonplace

Opening Marked in Vim

Oct 16, 2012 Note

Better Web Scraping with Nokogiri

Oct 12, 2012 Note

Building Your Own Memex

Oct 10, 2012 Essay

Github Training training.github.com

Oct 8, 2012 Commonplace

The Blossom Coffee Machine theverge.com

Oct 2, 2012 Commonplace

Bit Rot economist.com

Sep 29, 2012 Commonplace

How the Internet Ruined San Francisco salon.com

Sep 27, 2012 Commonplace

Grad Students Guide to Good Coffee

Sep 24, 2012 Note

Fewer Copyright Restrictions Benefit the Economy eff.org

Sep 21, 2012 Commonplace

The NSA Data Center in the West wired.com

Sep 19, 2012 Commonplace

Handy Guide to Regular Expressions etext.lib.virginia.edu

Sep 18, 2012 Commonplace

Resources for the Academic Job Market ryan.cordells.us

Sep 12, 2012 Commonplace

Sep 5, 2012 Note

Sep 1, 2012 Note

One Giant Leap tightwind.net

Aug 28, 2012 Commonplace

Towards Better PDF Management with the Filesystem

Aug 13, 2012 Essay

The Tech Specs of Curiosity extremetech.com

Aug 8, 2012 Commonplace

Backup Now marco.org

Aug 6, 2012 Commonplace

Indulge in Curiosity wired.com

Jul 25, 2012 Commonplace

Mangling the Origins of the Early Internet arstechnica.com

Jul 23, 2012 Commonplace

UCI Study Finds People Who Check Email Less Frequently Have Better Focus today.uci.edu

Jul 18, 2012 Commonplace

What the Internet Looks Like theatlantic.com

Jul 16, 2012 Commonplace

The Vertue of the Coffee Drink openculture.com

Jul 16, 2012 Commonplace

What I've Learned as an Academic Blogger

Jul 11, 2012 Essay

Digital History Training Becoming Common in Public History Programs publichistorycommons.org

Jul 10, 2012 Commonplace

Writing for History Buffs chronicle.com

Jul 10, 2012 Commonplace

The Busy Trap opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com

Jul 9, 2012 Commonplace

Google Tracking Wildfires in the West arstechnica.com

Jul 5, 2012 Commonplace

Becoming a Stylish Writer chronicle.com

Jul 5, 2012 Commonplace

Dotfiles on Github dotfiles.github.com

Jun 16, 2012 Commonplace

How to Brew French Press Coffee sofawned.com

Jun 15, 2012 Commonplace

A Few New Scripts

Jun 7, 2012 Note

AHA Forming a Task Force on Digital Scholarship

Jun 6, 2012 Note

Popup Footnotes

Jun 6, 2012 Note

An Alternative GTD System heydave.org

Jun 4, 2012 Commonplace

Content on the Web twitter.com

May 24, 2012 Commonplace

Forking the Rubyist Historian

May 21, 2012 Essay

The Bastards Book of Ruby ruby.bastardsbook.com

May 16, 2012 Commonplace

It's About the Problem

May 15, 2012 Note

World Aeropress Championship worldaeropresschampionship.wordpress.com

May 15, 2012 Commonplace

Hemingway on Writing theparisreview.org

May 10, 2012 Commonplace

Open Source Data Journalism Handbook Launched datajournalismhandbook.org

May 8, 2012 Commonplace

Adam Lisagor's AeroPress Tribute

Apr 25, 2012 Note

A Simple Ruby NGram Generator

Apr 24, 2012 Note

1862 Great Plains Symposium unl.edu

Mar 28, 2012 Commonplace

Mar 3, 2012 Note

Give It Five Minutes 37signals.com

Mar 1, 2012 Commonplace

The Internet is Not Broken plus.google.com

Feb 29, 2012 Commonplace

The French Press Method

Feb 15, 2012 Note

Journals in the Digital Age

Feb 5, 2012 Essay

Feb 2, 2012 Note

Redefining Scholarship in the Digital Age

Jan 22, 2012 Essay

Standing Against SOPA

Jan 18, 2012 Essay

A Call to Redefine Historical Scholarship in the Digital Age

Jan 13, 2012 Note

Digital History at the AHA

Jan 5, 2012 Note

THATCamp Proposal: Programming in the Humanities

Jan 4, 2012 Note

Dec 31, 2011 Essay

A Literary History of Word Processing nytimes.com

Dec 27, 2011 Commonplace

Legacy Research

Dec 17, 2011 Essay

Directions in Digital Humanities Research

Dec 7, 2011 Essay

Dec 1, 2011 Essay

Who Controls the Master Switch

Nov 17, 2011 Essay

What My lolcat Ate For Breakfast

Nov 9, 2011 Essay

The Architecture of Humanities Cyberspace

Nov 3, 2011 Essay

Peer Reviewing Writing History in the Digital Age

Oct 27, 2011 Note

The Obligation of Open Access

Oct 25, 2011 Essay

Latour and the Social

Oct 20, 2011 Essay

Models for Narrative in Digital Humanities

Oct 12, 2011 Essay

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick

Oct 11, 2011 Note

SpecLab and Digital Aesthetics

Oct 6, 2011 Essay

Oct 6, 2011 Note

Remembering Steve Jobs

Oct 5, 2011 Note

Spatial Humanities and Visual Narratives

Sep 28, 2011 Essay

Digital Humanities at the 2012 American Historical Association

Sep 26, 2011 Note

Information and Data in the Digital Age

Sep 22, 2011 Essay

Electronic Text and the Digital Humanities

Sep 14, 2011 Essay

The Medium of Digital Humanities

Sep 4, 2011 Essay

Organizing Knowledge and the Future of the Humanities

Sep 1, 2011 Essay

The Digital Humanities Seminar

Aug 29, 2011 Note

Project 2000 - Apple Computer stephenwolfram.com

Aug 23, 2011 Commonplace

Constructing a Digital Humanists' C.V.

Aug 4, 2011 Essay

Using Notational Velocity

Jul 22, 2011 Essay

Own Your Identity

Jul 14, 2011 Note

On Writing and Notebooks

Jul 11, 2011 Note

Twitter from the Command Line

Jul 9, 2011 Note

Grown Up Computing

Jun 29, 2011 Essay

Silicon Valley and the Cold War

Jun 29, 2011 Note

Writing in the Age of Distraction locusmag.com

Jun 29, 2011 Commonplace

How Books Are Made, 1947 Style youtube.com

Jun 29, 2011 Commonplace

Internet Predictions from 1982 nytimes.com

Jun 29, 2011 Commonplace

The Market for Digital Textbooks arstechnica.com

Jun 28, 2011 Commonplace

US Supreme Court Rules Video Games Protected Under the First Amendment nytimes.com

Jun 27, 2011 Commonplace

Self-Publishing is About to Get Real aaronmahnke.com

Jun 27, 2011 Commonplace

What Happens On the Internet Every Sixty Seconds technolog.msnbc.msn.com

Jun 27, 2011 Commonplace

Why Macs Cost More Than PCs mattrichman.tumblr.com

Jun 26, 2011 Commonplace

Dropbox Breach Affects Fewer Than 100 Accounts techcrunch.com

Jun 26, 2011 Commonplace

Visualizing Historical Data and the Rise of Digital Humanities fastcompany.com

Jun 9, 2011 Commonplace

Gaming the Archives chronicle.com

May 29, 2011 Commonplace

Of Goats and Headaches economist.com

May 27, 2011 Commonplace

Digital Humanities: Not Building, But Sharing samplereality.com

May 25, 2011 Commonplace

Writing and the Problem of Quick Consumption instapaper.com

May 18, 2011 Commonplace

Designing Digital History

May 10, 2011 Essay

The Humanities Done Digitally chronicle.com

May 9, 2011 Commonplace

Longform Writing on the Web

May 3, 2011 Essay

The Challenge of Writing boston.com

Apr 28, 2011 Commonplace

Migrating to Jekyll

Apr 19, 2011 Essay

Go Write blog.frankchimero.com

Apr 3, 2011 Commonplace

Alternative Scholarly Publishing informationr.net

Mar 29, 2011 Commonplace

Code School codeschool.com

Mar 22, 2011 Commonplace

Mar 17, 2011 Note

"You think you are being a leader, but you are probably being a manager." player.vimeo.com

Mar 15, 2011 Commonplace

Initial Thoughts on TileMill

Mar 15, 2011 Essay

Go Be Awesome youtube.com

Mar 13, 2011 Commonplace

Instapaper 3.0 blog.instapaper.com

Mar 12, 2011 Commonplace

A Web Designed for Reading blog.readability.com

Mar 4, 2011 Commonplace

Upgrading Windows kottke.org

Mar 4, 2011 Commonplace

How Twitter's TOS Changes Hurt Academic Research readwriteweb.com

Mar 3, 2011 Commonplace

Digital Historical Research historians.org

Mar 3, 2011 Commonplace

The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age amazon.com

Mar 3, 2011 Commonplace

Editing in the Digital Age theaporetic.com

Mar 3, 2011 Commonplace

Mar 2, 2011 Note

Defending the Humanities insidehighered.com

Mar 2, 2011 Commonplace

Coverage of the Apple Event live.twit.tv

Mar 2, 2011 Commonplace

Digital History and Continuous Deployment

Mar 2, 2011 Essay

What Scholars Want from the Digital Public Library of America dancohen.org

Mar 1, 2011 Commonplace

Why I Don't Use A Commenting System

Mar 1, 2011 Essay

Using Vim stevelosh.com

Feb 14, 2011 Commonplace

What is the Internet? youtube.com

Feb 14, 2011 Commonplace

FREQr Version 2

Feb 13, 2011 Note

Programming Guides niche-canada.org

Feb 8, 2011 Commonplace

Stanford Tool DataWrangler readwriteweb.com

Feb 3, 2011 Commonplace

Less Yack, More Hack chronicle.com

Feb 2, 2011 Commonplace

Creating a Government-less Internet datelinezero.com

Jan 30, 2011 Commonplace

Learn How to Code lifehacker.com

Jan 30, 2011 Commonplace

EFF Uncovers Widespread FBI Violations eff.org

Jan 30, 2011 Commonplace

The Importance of No inc.com

Jan 26, 2011 Commonplace

Hiring Front-End Engineers computedstyle.com

Jan 25, 2011 Commonplace

Jan 23, 2011 Commonplace

Road Train Technology newscientist.com

Jan 19, 2011 Commonplace

Netflix Spends 20 Times More on Postage than Bandwidth digitalsociety.org

Jan 18, 2011 Commonplace

Facebook and the Problem of Publics

Jan 16, 2011 Note

The Rubyist Historian: Our First Program

Jan 12, 2011 Essay

The Rubyist Historian: Randomness

Jan 8, 2011 Essay

The Rubyist Historian: Working With Advanced Data

Jan 7, 2011 Essay

The Rubyist Historian: Arrays and Hashes

Jan 4, 2011 Essay

The Rubyist Historian: Loops and Control Structures

Jan 2, 2011 Essay

RSS is Dying camendesign.com

Jan 2, 2011 Commonplace

The Rubyist Historian: Methods and Classes

Dec 31, 2010 Essay

URL Design warpspire.com

Dec 30, 2010 Commonplace

The Rubyist Historian: Getting Started

Dec 29, 2010 Essay

Net Neutrality economist.com

Dec 23, 2010 Commonplace

Why We Program savagelook.com

Dec 22, 2010 Commonplace

A Great Year for Ruby rubyinside.com

Dec 14, 2010 Commonplace

Start Using CSS3 and HTML5 Now smashingmagazine.com

Dec 11, 2010 Commonplace

The Rubyist Historian: The Series

Dec 10, 2010 Essay

How I Learned Code

Dec 3, 2010 Essay

Ruby vs. Python allthingsprogress.com

Nov 28, 2010 Commonplace

FREQr, a Command Line Word Frequency Generator

Nov 28, 2010 Note

Refocusing on Content

Nov 28, 2010 Note

Pianobar, Your Command Line Pandora Client

Nov 24, 2010 Note

Long Live the Web scientificamerican.com

Nov 20, 2010 Commonplace

Douglas Rushkoff, Program or Be Programmed boingboing.net

Oct 11, 2010 Commonplace

Some Good Words to Live By en.wikipedia.org

Oct 10, 2010 Commonplace

Open Access Scholarship and Computers in the Humanities

Oct 8, 2010 Essay

Back to Blog (Basics)

Oct 8, 2010 Note

Excuse the Mess

Oct 3, 2010 Note

Preparing for Your Semester Teaching Assistantship

Aug 10, 2010 Note

Tool Review: TokenX and Language Analysis

Oct 25, 2009 Essay

Tool Review: Google Earth for Digital Historians

Sep 7, 2009 Essay

Digital History as a Research Methodology

Jun 3, 2009 Essay

Foundational Material in Digital History

Apr 20, 2009 Note

Framing Red Power: Newspapers and the Trail of Broken Treaties

Dec 18, 2008 Essay

How To: Designing Digital History

Nov 29, 2008 Essay

Open Source Scholarship, and Why History Should Be Open Source

Nov 8, 2008 Essay

The Dell Mini 9: A Historian's Review

Nov 8, 2008 Essay

The WHA: A Debrief

Oct 26, 2008 Note

The Promise of Digital History

Sep 18, 2008 Note

Kindle as a Metaphore for the History Web

May 2, 2008 Essay

The Challenge of Digital History

Apr 23, 2008 Essay

Liveblogging the Rawley: The Historical Community Online

Apr 12, 2008 Note

Bobley Visits UNL

Apr 8, 2008 Essay