Digital Humanities Part 6: Preservation through Minimal Computing and GO::DH
The series finale: how minimal computing and GO::DH turn digital preservation into a shared practice of plain text, static sites, and global collaboration.
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Browse page 2 of Adam DJ Brett's blog archive with posts on web development, digital publishing, teaching, and project updates.
Digital Humanities Part 5: Preserving Digital Humanities Projects
Why digital humanities projects die from link rot, dead software, and funding cliffs, and how persistent identifiers and repositories keep them alive.
Digital Humanities Part 4: Why We Need the Digital Humanities
Why the humanities need digital methods right now: the digitized record, public scholarship, open teaching, honest answers to skeptics, and the AI moment.
Digital Humanities Part 3: Digital Humanities for Theology and Religious Studies
Why theology and religious studies need digital humanities: the infrastructures, ethics, and pedagogy shaping how scholars work with sacred texts and sounds.
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.
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.