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8 January 2026 How I Use Obsidian Redux

An update on how I use Obsidian for historical research.

27 December 2025 Two Quotations on Interfaces

Excessive removal of friction from digital technology has diminished meaningful experiences.

21 January 2025 Friction

Migrating to Micro.blog made writing easier and more productive.

19 January 2025 Returning to Firefox

26 November 2024 Year-End Tech Report

12 February 2020 Email

30 November 2019 The IndieWeb

Doubling down on the Indie Web.

14 April 2018 Software I Use

Here's some software I really like right now.

9 February 2016 My Open History Notebook

I made an open notebook with Jekyll.

27 June 2013 Don't Forget Google Reader Goes Dark Monday

Google Reader goes dark on Monday.

7 December 2012 Using Text Expansion in My Research Workflow

Using TextExpander to work with markdown efficiently.

26 November 2012 OmniFocus Workflow and Notes

An overview on how I use Omnifocus.

20 November 2012 Using Markdown Like an Academic

Plain text should rule your writing life.

14 November 2012 Searching My Brain

Using TextExpander to search my writing.

16 October 2012 Opening Marked in Vim

A simple way to open Marked via vim.

10 October 2012 Building Your Own Memex

How I manage information.

31 December 2011 New Year

It's time to re-center my attention.

4 August 2011 Constructing a Digital Humanists' C.V.

Building a CV for the digital humanities.

22 July 2011 Using Notational Velocity

The perfect piece of software.

29 June 2011 Grown Up Computing

Marco Arment on the difference between 'young' and 'grown-up' computing.

19 April 2011 Migrating to Jekyll

I've moved from Wordpress to Jekyll. Here's how I did it.

24 November 2010 Pianobar, Your Command Line Pandora Client

Run Pandora from the command line.

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