Digital Humanities Part 1: What Are the Digital Humanities?
What the digital humanities are, where they came from, and why the definition debates still matter, from Father Busa's punched cards to Zotero and beyond.
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Latest posts by Adam DJ Brett on web development, digital publishing, teaching, and independent scholarship.
Review: Critical Theory and Social Pathology
Neal Harris mounts a genuinely sharp takedown of Axel Honneth's recognition paradigm, but the Fromm-Marcuse alternative he offers in its place is asserted with more confidence than it has earned.
Remote Development from Any Browser with blit.sh and moo
How to pair blit's browser-based terminal streaming with moo's local-first agent workbench for remote development, 11ty site work, and accessible document and transcript conversion.
11tyx5, Reprise: Build Awesome Alpha, a Whitestone Metasearch, and the Quest for Four 100s
Build Awesome alpha.10, a five-site Pagefind metasearch, faster builds, chasing four 100s in PageSpeed, and a Cloudflare cache lesson.
Easier Font Awesome SVGs in 11ty
Notes from using the @11ty/font-awesome plugin while migrating a site from Jekyll to Build Awesome, including the small CSS and icon-class fixes that made the SVG output behave.
Review of Leon Niemoczynski's Speculative Realism: An Epitome
A review of Leon Niemoczynski's Speculative Realism: An Epitome, tracing realism after Kant, correlationism, and the movement's contested legacy anew.
How to Implement status.lol on BuildAwesome
A practical guide to publishing new Eleventy blog posts to status.lol with GitHub Actions, the omg.lol API, and a small durable state file.
Xmit Might Be My New Favorite Static Site Host
Comparing Xmit to Netlify, Vercel, and Render for static site hosting: simple GitHub Actions deploys, easy redirects, and refreshingly little platform overhead.
Making Static Sites FAIR with metadata.json, Zotero, Eleventy, and Jekyll
A detailed implementation note on adding FAIR Signposting, per-page Schema.org metadata.json files, Zotero metadata, and citation automation across Eleventy and Jekyll sites.
How Build Awesome alpha, async Nunjucks, and smaller Cloudflare checks fixed my podcast build
Notes on moving a podcast site from Eleventy 3 to Build Awesome alpha, using Nunjucks v4 full async, shrinking Cloudflare _headers, and cutting deploy time from about 59 seconds to about 31 seconds.
PNG to PDF to OCR: A Small Command Line Skill for Digital Humanities Work
A practical Mac command line workflow for turning high-resolution PNG scans into searchable OCR PDFs with img2pdf and OCRmyPDF.
Review of Warren Throckmorton’s The Christian Past That Wasn’t
Warren Throckmorton argues the “Christian nation” founding is a myth that fuels real politics today. A review of his case, his seven myths, and its limits.