Our new volume 📖 , Writing Enslavement, is out now—physical and digital. the editors, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, @candidamoss.bsky.social, and @illdottore.bsky.social, put an amazing amount of work into a volume that is both slavery studies and book history. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Possibly useful data point: I call the plumber at the slightest provocation, because I am without doubt -- and in sharp contrast to my father -- the least handy person within a thousand miles.

I feel like I would never, ever, ever use AI to write a paper, lecture, letter, whatever. Is this because I am a strongly ethically-minded and possibly even virtuous individual, or is it because I'm like my dad who would do basically anything to avoid the indignity of calling a plumber?

Why doesn’t LaTeX automatically interpret such a list as countably infinite?

It's made me wish for the something like it for TEI. A little command line tool that can validate, query, count, pretty print, and visualize TEI. It's even made me wonder if I should devote an upcoming sabbatical to building something like this (some of those features are harder than they sound).

The other thing is that the course gave me an opportunity to dig into xan github.com/medialab/xan. This little gizmo is AMAZING for wrangling CSV data (as historians are wont to do).

My University is really not into people hosting their own UNIX servers. So I decided to switch from maintaining a Linux server (which I've been doing for twenty years of tech courses) to using Docker containers. A few blips here and there, but this is some slick tech and it has worked out well.

I've been teaching a course on data in the humanities -- how to create it, manipulate, visualize it, etc. but *without* coding (or much coding). So: CSV, XML, JSON, SQL and all their ecosystems (plus a bit of UNIX). There are a few interesting things about this course, but I want to mention two:

Also, the thumbnail of my book shows part of the blurb describing it as "witty and incisive . . ." Couple of things: (1) I didn't write this and (2) I am *way* more witty than incisive.

Well, look at that! All my friends are here!

I have a new(-ish) book out: *On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations* from University of Minnesota Press.

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791501...