A Summer of Plumbing: JCRT, KC Works, and the Build Awesome Builds
What changed under the hood at jcrt.org this summer: 829 DOIs through KC Works, a faster and quieter Eleventy build, and the Editorial-style sidebar I finally got right.
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Latest posts by Adam DJ Brett on web development, digital publishing, teaching, and independent scholarship.
A Cable of Many Fibers: An Overview of Pragmatism for Graduate Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences
An accessible graduate-level overview of pragmatism's major thinkers, contested lineages, theories of truth and inquiry, and uses for humanities and social-science research.
Five Lessons Indieweb Developers Can Learn from Ken Hawkins
I tried browser-side semantic search on thewhitestonefoundation.org after reading Ken Hawkins, measured it against my actual readers, and replaced it with Pagefind. The idea was still right.
TIDEL Conference: Racial Justice in the Digital Public Square Presentation
Meet me in NYC — the TIDEL Symposium, October 1
The 11th Annual Haudenosaunee Wooden Stick Festival Weekend: A Dinner, a Run, and the Creator's Game at Onondaga Lake
September 11–13, 2026: the Alfie Jacques Ambassador Award Dinner, the Restore Our Sacred Lake 5K, and the 11th Annual Haudenosaunee Wooden Stick Festival return to Onondaga Lake. Here's what to know.
Two Domains, One Build: Hosting .ngo and .ong Together with Eleventy and xmit
The small deployment breakthrough that let me serve one complete Eleventy site at both aila.ngo and aila.ong without turning either domain into a redirect.
Writing Support Resources
Free supports for academic writing: weekly writing communities, the Academic Phrasebank, citation alerts, and tools your university library already provides.
Apps and Tools for Research and Writing
A guided tour of free and low-cost apps for reference management, distraction-free writing, note-taking, and time management for doctoral and academic writers.
The Kanban Method for Dissertation and Journal Article Writing
How the kanban method turns a dissertation or journal article into small, visible units of work you can actually finish, one card and one column at a time.
In Praise of Zotero
Why Zotero is the one tool every doctoral writer should adopt: free citation capture, automatic bibliographies, and no vendor lock-in for your research library.
Review: Frame Analysis, Critical Theory, and English Language Teaching
Robert J. Lowe builds a genuinely usable qualitative method out of early Horkheimer, then undercuts almost none of his own methodology's real weak points, a candor that makes the book more trustworthy than most methods guides and no less compromised.
Review: Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after AI
Yuk Hui's compact rereading of Kant as a philosopher of machines is the most original framing yet for the AI debates, though its analogies sometimes do work that arguments should, and its quarrel with actual machine learning stays at arm's length.