Digital Humanities Part 2: Digital Humanities Tools for Dissertations
A practical, opinionated guide to digital humanities tools for dissertation writers, from Zotero and Tropy to Knight Lab interactives and CORE deposits.
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Browse page 10 of Adam DJ Brett's blog archive with posts on web development, digital publishing, teaching, and project updates.
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.
Review: Habermas and the Transformations of Critical Theory
A genuinely distinguished contributor roster surveys sixty years of Habermas, but the volume's title promises critique more uniformly than its chapters, several of which read as sympathetic exposition, actually deliver.
Review: Critical Theory of Communication
Christian Fuchs gets genuine mileage out of reading Marcuse and Honneth against Facebook, but the book's Facebook-era horizon and its short shrift to Habermas, the thinker its own subtitle foregrounds, have not aged well a decade on.
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.
Review: Mindful Design: A Survival Guide for Responsible Product Designers
Riley takes aim at the behaviorist logic hiding inside design’s vocabulary of conversion and engagement, and argues that autonomy, competence, and relatedness—not dopamine hacking—are the legitimate ends of product design.
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.