Essays

2026

A New Design for Readability Mar 2 How I Use Obsidian Redux Jan 8

2025

Generative AI and the Work of History Dec 22 The Farmall H Restoration, February Update Feb 27 Friction Jan 21 The blog's themes, summarized Jan 4

2024

Year of Foundations Dec 27 How I Use Obsidian Jul 15 Made by Me May 23 Reflections on Becoming a Django Developer May 21

2023

Spoiled Fruits: Environmental Inequality in Silicon Valley Nov 1 Weekend Update Mar 19 The Year of Work Jan 26

2022

Yearly Theme Dec 19 Creativity and AI Oct 16 Elden Ring Oct 11 Towards a Stable Set of Tools Jan 12

2021

Twitter Use at WHA2021 Nov 17 Turning 30 Oct 19 Union May 28 New Role: Developer at RRCHNM May 17

2020

Twitter Use at WHA2020 Oct 19 Superfund Package May 7 Basecamp Mar 27

2019

The IndieWeb Nov 30 Paper notes Nov 8 Twitter Use at WHA2019 Oct 22 How Silicon Valley Provides the Blueprint for Cleaning Up Our Drinking Water Apr 26

2018

Twitter Use at WHA2018 Oct 23 Advocacy, Training, and Awareness Through Endangered Data Week Mar 2

2017

How Silicon Valley Industry Polluted the Sylvan California Dream Nov 14 Arguing with Digital History Aug 18 Standing up for Net Neutrality Jul 5 Mapping Midwest Jun 6 Introducing Endangered Data Week Apr 24

2016

Homecoming Sep 22 Syllabus for Teaching Digital Public History Aug 26 My Open History Notebook Feb 9 Federal Policy, Western Lands, and Malheur Jan 6

2015

Visualizing the Wars of the United States Sep 28 Humanistic Approaches to Data Visualization Jan 18 Interview with Matt Burton Jan 10 The Machines in the Valley Digital History Project Jan 2

2014

Research Design and Geography of the Post Oct 30 Editorial is a Powerful, Flexible iOS App for Text Editing Jun 30 Use Copy for Cloud Storage Backup and File Sharing Jun 23 What Does Missile Command Have to do with Digital History? Jun 4 Day of DH: The Collaborative Historian Apr 8 Day of DH: The Spatial Historian Apr 8 Western History and the California Drought Feb 22

2013

Digital History Interview with BlogWest Dec 17 Converting Plain Text to PDF with Bash Oct 30 Digital History at Stanford Oct 18 My Alt-Ac Life Oct 2 Using Editorial and Bibkeys Together Aug 21 On Tornadoes May 20 The Digital Public Library of America Apr 28 Interview for Digital History@Rice Mar 17 Defining Digital Humanities Jan 8

2012

Using Text Expansion in My Research Workflow Dec 7 New Job, Joining Stanford Dec 3 Using AppleScript to Automate Notetaking Nov 24 Using Markdown Like an Academic Nov 20 Building Your Own Memex Oct 10 Towards Better PDF Management with the Filesystem Aug 13 What I've Learned as an Academic Blogger Jul 11 Forking the Rubyist Historian May 21 Journals in the Digital Age Feb 5 Redefining Scholarship in the Digital Age Jan 22 Standing Against SOPA Jan 18

2011

New Year Dec 31 Legacy Research Dec 17 Directions in Digital Humanities Research Dec 7 Alone Together Dec 1 Who Controls the Master Switch Nov 17 What My lolcat Ate For Breakfast Nov 9 The Architecture of Humanities Cyberspace Nov 3 The Obligation of Open Access Oct 25 Latour and the Social Oct 20 Models for Narrative in Digital Humanities Oct 12 SpecLab and Digital Aesthetics Oct 6 Spatial Humanities and Visual Narratives Sep 28 Information and Data in the Digital Age Sep 22 Electronic Text and the Digital Humanities Sep 14 The Medium of Digital Humanities Sep 4 Organizing Knowledge and the Future of the Humanities Sep 1 Constructing a Digital Humanists' C.V. Aug 4 Using Notational Velocity Jul 22 Grown Up Computing Jun 29 Designing Digital History May 10 Longform Writing on the Web May 3 Migrating to Jekyll Apr 19 Initial Thoughts on TileMill Mar 15 Digital History and Continuous Deployment Mar 2 Why I Don't Use A Commenting System Mar 1 The Rubyist Historian: Our First Program Jan 12 The Rubyist Historian: Randomness Jan 8 The Rubyist Historian: Working With Advanced Data Jan 7 The Rubyist Historian: Arrays and Hashes Jan 4 The Rubyist Historian: Loops and Control Structures Jan 2

2010

The Rubyist Historian: Methods and Classes Dec 31 The Rubyist Historian: Getting Started Dec 29 The Rubyist Historian: The Series Dec 10 How I Learned Code Dec 3 Open Access Scholarship and Computers in the Humanities Oct 8

2009

Tool Review: TokenX and Language Analysis Oct 25 Tool Review: Google Earth for Digital Historians Sep 7 Digital History as a Research Methodology Jun 3

2008

Framing Red Power: Newspapers and the Trail of Broken Treaties Dec 18 How To: Designing Digital History Nov 29 Open Source Scholarship, and Why History Should Be Open Source Nov 8 The Dell Mini 9: A Historian's Review Nov 8 Kindle as a Metaphore for the History Web May 2 The Challenge of Digital History Apr 23 Bobley Visits UNL Apr 8