My dad’s new thing is that he plays a recording of the frogs peeping to the frogs so they start peeping.

I am so tired of having to start with "yes I'm aware that there are meaningful uses for machine learning and algorithms" when the people in speaking to make no room for the meaningful rejection of AI Slop hedgehoglibrarian.com/2025/10/27/2...

Oh no this is a legit thing what nonsense. Why would you put them in article order at the end???

Does no one alphabetize their bibliography anymore???

Ohhhhh it's finally dawning on me that it will be my job to translate the impending accessibility guidelines to my master gardener group that still doesn't really want to use gdrive.

I've been having a hard time accepting the passage of time, but I've also been working on an article about work that I did ten years ago and yeah no that was a long time ago I remember nothing.

Looking forward to running a pre-conf workshop at Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Institution! There's more seats if you want to join us for some reflective conversation about where we're at and where we want to go.

Trying to practice what I preach (make bad art) and submitted two things to a local art show! Scary!

It's always CORS!!!!

Is this supposed to be a joke? (Ignore me trying to prove my spouse wrong in the kitchen)

What a program! 🤩 And there's still time to sign up for a low-cost, virtual, pre-conference #ACH2026 workshop: 1) DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative & Critical Assignment Design 2) Get Started Preserving your Web Content & Data 3) Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Inst ach2026.ach.org/en/workshops/

The reddit thread that’s basically just “yeah my smoke detector made a weird series of beeps at 3am too why is that?” might win least helpful thread.

Create don’t Generate! It’s a gimmick. An expensive, unethical gimmick. Also they can take the ✨ from my cold, dead hands, I’m taking it back. ✌️

The recent removal of FiveThirtyEight's archive is a reminder of how fleeting digital content can be. Our research found 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer accessible a decade later. www.pewresearch.org/...

Last night I attended a cat's birthday party. A piñata was mounted to an excavator so we could swat at it like a human-sized cat toy. Nerd clusters fell out. The aged cat looked on in disgust.

I will accept LLM help in creating RDF good lord.

ACH 2026 election results are in! Congratulations to Co-VPs/Presidents Elect Mandy Regan & Brandon Walsh, and new Executive Council members Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Samantha Blickhan, Rachel Starry, and Laura Braunstein. buff.ly/7dg8Ctb

Phew buying a new lightning-to-USB cable is way cheaper than buying a new car.

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

So hard to listen to an academic admin insist that this new app really will actually let us customize the way our data displays not like the old new app that we paid millions for that won’t let you customize how the field sorts.

Grateful to reporter Matt Hartman for telling this story about changes in leadership at NEH. The firing of 22 out of 26 board members, including all members appointed by past presidents, is nothing short of a coup at an agency where the board reviews and votes on every single grant application.

Today was the faculty meeting where the retirement citations were read and it just makes me sad and mad that more people don’t get to experience that life.

I almost forgot my annual viewing/posting of this!

Omg I love Bicentennial schlock. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I cannot wait to watch this episode of The Crown in ten years.

It’s important to do because everyone is doing it. And everyone is doing it because it’s important. Imagine if that energy was applied to any number of other things. Supporting students. Pedagogical development. Empowering staff. Community-engaged work.

I dumped some feelings in a blog post about teaching DH right now. mackenziekbrooks.info/update/2026/...

Sharing this great piece of journalism from local students on Google's proposed data center in a neighboring county! www.powerinthedarkva.com

Excited to be offering a pre-conf workshop with Lisa Boutin-Vitela all about envisioning DH at your teaching-focused institution. We're hoping this will be a helpful reset and dream big moment for a range of folks.

Imagine being a Greenland shark. Deep under the ice, below any sight of the sun, you float almost motionless above the seabed. You do not know what is happening anywhere else in the world. You do not even know there is anywhere else in the world. This is the seven hundred years of your life.

I'm seriously losing my shit with all this AI generated homework.

It is weird to be as old as I've ever been and feel like I'm getting worse at teaching. Or the Chat of it all is really sending me to a bad place. Or both!

I had a three art class weekend! Highly recommend! Saturday was druksels at @virginiabookarts.bsky.social, Sunday was watercolor, and Monday was drypoint etching.

We're done. This is the only April Fools' joke I will be accepting. (From my local newspaper) www.thenews-gazette.com

The only constant is change!! My trusty course website platform for so many years. squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-mater...

Happy spring to everyone who just wants to sit and listen to the doves and the frogs.

There are some business profs who never got to make websites as a kid and it shows.

I put these Luddite prints up on my letterpress print store (store.wolfproofpress.com) if anyone is interested. (Store is new, so this is its initial test—let me know if you run into any issues?)

"The question was like, how do you encode all of that context?” 🤯🤯🤯

Well I'm going to go out and deal with non-native honeysuckle but I'm going to be thinking about how we've altered up our websites to avoid detection but it's our websites that are being used to power the confirmation machine.

If any DH-ers are looking for a summer camp experience, (team or solo), the CFP for the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship is out! Held at @vassarlibraries.bsky.social in July, it's such a fun and productive time full of the best people. Happy to answer qs. iliads.org/call-for-pro...

I have a little assignment where I got students a messy dataset and ask them to make sense of it and this year a student wrote that he’d just make an agent do all the historical research and I guess I’m a dinosaur now.

No one writing about Wuthering Heights has any idea what they're talking about.

Well at least instead of sitting on the couch crying about winter now I’m sitting on the couch crying about these poor athletes not all coming in first.

This is a nice piece about the secret security of small liberal arts colleges but hey maybe let’s not ruin the secret.

Ahem, personal knowledge management system app. I love that.

Why did I decide to try out new note apps in the middle of the day and in the middle of the week and in the middle of the term?

"We've Noticed You're Blocking Ads" that's because i don't want to see them. the doomsday clock of each of our lives ticks ever closer to midnight with each passing second. you must be the person you wanted to be when you grew up and that guy does not look at ads

January is hard.