Essays

I could not be more excited to announce that I'm joining Stanford University!

Extracting PDF highlights to markdown with AppleScript.

Plain text should rule your writing life.

How I manage information.

Using the filesystem to manage your journal PDFs.

Blogging has taught me a lot.

My open access book on Ruby programming for historians.

Some thoughts on the role of academic journals in the digital age.

Please consider endorsing our call for the AHA to evaluate the role of digital scholarship in peer review, tenure, and promotion.

The Stop Online Piracy Act is bad legislation, and bad for the web.