2022-06-19 The kids know how to gift.
2022-06-19 Today’s to-do list from Daughter: ice cream, LEGO building, lunch, and dinner.
2022-06-11 sorry what
2022-06-06 And we meet again, Day of WWDC.
2022-06-05 Weekend project inching along. Painted the study and finally replaced the sagging, cheap bookshelves …
2022-06-04 Raggmunk for breakfast.
2022-06-02 In the mailbag.
2022-06-02 Sadly, I had to withdraw from a conference in August that’s being held in Savanger, Norway. …
2022-06-02 Sadly, I had to withdraw from a conference in August that that’s being held in Savanger, …
2022-06-01 Currently reading: Why the New Deal Matters by Eric Rauchway 📚
2022-05-31 The office is pleasant today.
2022-05-28 Garden updates.
2022-05-28 Come feast, bird friends.
2022-05-24 “We guarantee that crazed man after crazed man will have a flood of killing power readily …
2022-05-24 “It’s not a good time for Belgian-style monastic beers. Spencer came along at the wrong …
2022-05-19 Currently reading: The Long Land War by Jo Guldi 📚
2022-05-16 Really nice conversation today with my editor (and good friend) about my book. I’ve set myself …
2022-05-15 My daughter, waking up from her nap, always brings a book down from her room but then just leaves it …
2022-05-14 Welp.
2022-05-11 Major flight delay. Time for another one.
2022-05-11 Heading home after a wonderful visit to Virginia.
2022-05-10 Unreasonably pleased we named our RRCHNM data API: Apiary. 🐝
2022-05-07 Good morning.
2022-05-06 Good to be back at RRCHNM for a time.
2022-05-03 New setup.
2022-05-03 Did my single item I ordered get delivered? I’m not certain.
2022-05-02 Indecisive tree.
2022-04-30 The high winds today are throwing so many flower blossom petals around that it looks like it’s …
2022-04-29 Writing on a rainy morning. Giving BBEdit a try as the writing app today.
2022-04-28 💌 Breve #6: Mapping American Religion
2022-04-27 Tonight the toddler got mad at me because I told her I was making pasta for dinner, not mac and …
2022-04-24 Juneberries blooming.
2022-04-23 First cold brew of the season. ☕️
2022-04-21 What is the best movie soundtrack and why is it O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2022-04-19 Good morning.
2022-04-14 Currently reading: What It Took to Win by Michael Kazin 📚
2022-04-14 Can’t wait for him to buy twitter so the whole thing just implodes.
2022-04-13 Testing something out on my web server, and I made it angry.
2022-04-12 It’s currently 85F. It was 51F an hour and a half ago.
2022-04-12 Well that explains things.
2022-04-10 My tarragon has returned!
2022-04-10 Happy chives.
2022-04-08 Looking forward to digging into these.
2022-04-04 Currently reading: Catholic Modern by James Chappel 📚
2022-04-03 Cuban ropa vieja (roast shredded beef), coconut scallion rice, vegetarian Cuban picadillo.
2022-03-31 Pro tip: throw some Trader Joe’s umami seasoning on that broccoli before you roast it.
2022-03-27 oh no I bought Elden Ring
2022-03-20 Chives have begun their return.
2022-03-16 I might have just impulse-bought a le Carré “George Smiley” boxed set.
2022-03-15 It’s a tough life.
2022-03-15 Morning writing.
2022-03-08 Pepper seedlings going strong.
2022-02-27 Fastelavnsboller, a Norwegian cardamom bun filled with jam and whipped cream.
2022-02-26 In the mailbag.
2022-02-20 Stewed apples with homemade honey ice cream.
2022-02-19 What a weird week.
2022-02-13 Yes.
2022-02-10 Good morning.
2022-02-04 Vegetarian tikka masala and homemade naan.
2022-02-01 Another early morning calling for writing, and my best approximation of a cappuccino.
2022-01-29 An early morning calls for quiet contemplation and writing.
2022-01-24 Pan-seared tofu with a homemade chili oil.
2022-01-23 Good morning.
2022-01-21 “If we just keep building without repairing what exists or applying lessons learned along the way, …
2022-01-20 In the mailbag.
2022-01-11 I’ve been using Go a lot more as part of the work we’re doing on a @chnm data API, and …
2022-01-04 I don’t know what happened between yesterday and today, but the dependency gods (looking at …
2022-01-03 Great piece by @benwerd: There’s no such thing as writing too much: your voice is important, your …
2021-12-31 Happy New Year, friends.
2021-12-30 Knocking out lots of little digital maintenance projects this week: unsubscribing from apps and …
2021-12-30 The 5yo and I recently finished Chasm, a rogue-like 2D side-scroller — we thought it was fantastic. …
2021-12-30 Today’s projects include finally getting my router on OpenDNS.
2021-12-29 The Break from Twitter
2021-12-29 My small Christmas break project of fixing face tagging in Apple Photos to correct miscategrized …
2021-12-27 Just finished Margrete den første. Pretty good drama on political intrigue in fifteenth century …
2021-12-25 Making gløgg today: 1 cinnamon stick 6 cloves 1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg 3 cardamom pods 3 …
2021-12-25 Merry Christmas.
2021-12-24 The Icelanders are on to something. ☕️
2021-12-22 Julebordet
2021-12-21 At the start of the pandemic, I started following this series of one man building a log cabin in …
2021-12-21 Currently reading: The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele and David …
2021-12-21 Currently reading: Thinking about History by Sarah Maza 📚
2021-12-20 Today is for making lefse.
2021-12-20 “The tools of writing have seldom been designed with writers in mind.”
2021-12-19 Currently reading: The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson 📚
2021-12-18 I might be getting a home beer brewing kit for Christmas, so I might be brewing up some juniper beer …
2021-12-16 Christmas Tunes
2021-12-15 I don’t feel good having experienced my first (indeed, multiple) tornado warnings in December.
2021-12-15 This storm front is screaming fast. May look small but it’s packing a huge punch.
2021-12-14 ah yes the December fire season
2021-12-12 What an absolutely bonkers Formula 1 season.
2021-12-12 I’d hate to be a Formula 1 steward today.
2021-12-11 Today was for making gløgg and St. Lucia saffron buns.
2021-12-08 Had a quick but fantastic trip to visit my colleagues at RRCHNM this week. I’m still so …
2021-11-30 If you’re a listener of our RRCHNM podcasts, for Giving Tuesday please consider supporting our …
2021-11-27 “Where’s the food.”
2021-11-26 Pumpkin pie for breakfast.
2021-11-25 Yes.
2021-11-25 Roast pork stuffed with sage and rosemary, green beans, roasted broccoli, deviled eggs, kale and …
2021-11-25 A bit of downtime before the next phase of cooking means digging into some Thanksgiving reading.
2021-11-25 Yes.
2021-11-25 Soon.
2021-11-25 Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
2021-11-25 A Day of Mourning
2021-11-25 Newberry Library
2021-11-22 Today’s office view.
2021-11-21 An at-home Nailed It! competition.
2021-11-07 Kjøttbollene mine er bedre enn IKEAs.
2021-11-01 Yes.
2021-10-26 Boo
2021-10-23 The last of our harvest.
2021-10-23 Out adventuring this morning: visiting the Holy Family Shrine, and fossil hunting.
2021-10-20 I have, twice now, followed Apple’s instructions for reinstalling macOS on my MacBook Air. …
2021-10-17 Homemade raspberry juice and vodka with a touch of smoke. Skål.
2021-10-17 Onion soup with cheese on sourdough.
2021-10-16 Tonight, baked potato soup with fried potato skins and broccoli, and brunost caramel apples for …
2021-10-14 Mailbag.
2021-10-12 Chili rellanos with peppers from our garden.
2021-10-10 Currently reading: The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism by Keith Makoto Woodhouse …
2021-10-09 Just a few peppers from the garden. And we’re not even done harvesting them all yet.
2021-10-09 We also met this friend in the garden today.
2021-10-09 Tearing out the plants no longer producing in the garden today.
2021-10-08 Soon.
2021-10-06 If you like tarragon, blitz a handful with half a cup of sugar and top strawberries and milk with …
2021-10-03 Currently reading: Floating Coast by Bathsheba Demuth 📚
2021-09-27 The one positive of being holed up in bed all day with a stomach bug is finally watching Star Wars: …
2021-09-26 A morning at the apple orchard.
2021-09-19 This week: Hey! It’s going to be in the mid-70s all week! Also this week:
2021-09-19 Paul Hollywood would give me poor marks, but I tried my hand at Swedish kardemummabullar today. …
2021-09-17 Very excited to see a new José González album.
2021-09-17 Butternut squash soup tonight, grown from our garden. 🌱
2021-09-11 Flambéed pork chops with sage and aquavit.
2021-09-08 Currently reading: Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer 📚
2021-09-07 Just a massive watermelon haul from our garden (apple for scale).
2021-09-05 Skål!
2021-09-05 Birthdays are for cream cakes (bløtkake).
2021-09-04 Started rewatching one of my favorite shows the other night, Occupied, and wow does seeing …
2021-09-04 These Williams cars in Q2 look like me trying to play F1 2021 with full simulation settings.
2021-09-01 The new James McMurtry album is fantastic.
2021-08-30 Finally, an answer to “what is digital humanities”?
2021-08-26 I sure hope not: Twitter threads are the new blog posts.
2021-08-24 Currently reading: The Anglo-Saxons : A History of the Beginnings of England by Marc Morris 📚
2021-08-22 Good morning.
2021-08-17 Currently reading: Forget the Alamo by Bryan Burrough 📚
2021-08-09 The Summer Day
2021-08-09 “And, if we believe this report, the next 20-30 years is the most important time of our whole …
2021-08-08 Just finished reading: France by Emile Chabal 📚
2021-08-08 Currently reading: The Human Factor by Graham Greene 📚
2021-07-28 Garden update.
2021-07-24 Jeg tror min favoritt ting om å lære norsk er å prøve nye norske oppskrifter. Det er god motivasjon. …
2021-07-21 Github Copilot is shockingly good.
2021-07-19 Steak with fresh garden herbs and butter, grilled garden squash and zucchini, fresh sourdough, and a …
2021-07-17 Skål!
2021-07-15 Pickling.
2021-07-13 “When a perceived internal enemy is a threat to the established hierarchy, the state springs …
2021-07-11 Mailbag. 📚
2021-07-09 “Throughout the first two centuries of its existence, Chicago became famous as a city that …
2021-07-08 “If redlining maps were not just maps of race, then what were they maps of? They were maps that …
2021-07-07 “It’s 109 degrees in Portland right now. It’s been over 130 degrees in Baghdad several times. What …
2021-07-07 “The new Federal Writers Project, in other words, would revitalize and repurpose portions of our …
2021-07-06 Incredible work by Morata. ⚽️ #ITA #ESP
2021-07-05 Just a few garden items.
2021-07-03 Call me radical, but I’d prefer not to have burning oceans.
2021-07-02 Friday.
2021-06-29 GitHub Copilot looks incredible.
2021-06-23 Sourdough ciabatta.
2021-06-17 Neat.
2021-06-11 Skål!
2021-06-08 Look at these garlic scapes.
2021-06-07 Looking forward to WWDC today, hoping to see some big news for iPads.
2021-06-06 Also, around a pound and a half of juneberries.
2021-06-06 The first true harvest (just ignore those bolted chives and sad onion bulb).
2021-06-02 Yesterday I met a friend for coffee at a coffee shop outside without masks. It was glorious.
2021-06-01 In the mailbag.
2021-05-31 Firing up the grill for chicken tenders and beyond beef burgers. Spring potato salad chilling in the …
2021-05-31 Good morning.
2021-05-27 Just added this amazing hand-drawn map of North America to my list of maps I need to buy.
2021-05-27 Currently reading: At Home in the World by Kathleen A. Cairns 📚
2021-05-27 Just a bit of rain in that overnight thunderstorm.
2021-05-23 Chipotle beef, roja con crema, cilantro, and homemade corn tortillas.
2021-05-23 Any recipe that starts off with roasting poblano peppers is going to be good.
2021-05-21 Ben Schmidt give us an alignment chart on digital publishing.
2021-05-14 First harvest.
2021-05-13 Making a favorite stew tonight: rotgrønnsaksgryte med bygg.
2021-05-06 I don’t think anything else I’ve made comes close to the popularity of What is Digital …
2021-05-04 Observable Plot looks like a fantastic new way for generating charts in browsers. API seems user …
2021-04-20 I’m going to need that new iMac.
2021-04-18 Good evening.
2021-04-15 After hand-digging twenty-eight 1’ diameter by 2.5’ deep holes, pouring 2,300lbs of …
2021-04-12 Tell me you’re in your mid-thirties without telling me you’re in your mid-thirties. My wrist is so …
2021-04-11 Also, the soundtrack for Project Fence has been Johnny Cash on endless repeat. I’ll credit …
2021-04-11 Project Fence day seven ends with almost all of the exterior pickets hung. The longest exterior …
2021-04-10 Project Fence, day six. Pickets started getting in place this evening.
2021-04-09 Project Fence, day five. All the posts installed and cemented, most of the rail hung.
2021-04-08 Project Fence, day four. Hoping rain is mostly done for the day.
2021-04-07 Project Fence day three, inside before the heavy rains hit. Over halfway done with setting posts.
2021-04-07 I’m excited to announce Project Fence is now sponsored by ibuprofen.
2021-04-06 Day two of Project Fence is in the books.
2021-04-05 I’m falling back on my days as a landscaper and taking on replacing our cedar fence this week. I’m …
2021-04-01 Dose 2!
2021-04-01 Those are fighting words.
2021-03-29 Fantastic piece by Hannah Fry on the harm and the good that can come from what we decide to count …
2021-03-25 Looking good, mobile @zotero!
2021-03-25 If you’re aghast at the reinstallment of Richard Stallman on the board of the Free Software …
2021-03-25 Det er vaffeldag i skandinavia! Lage noen vafler i dag!
2021-03-23 It’s good.
2021-03-21 Future firewood.
2021-03-19 Great thread on what we miss by using only digitized sources and how, perhaps, we shouldn’t read …
2021-03-15 He’s a good sport.
2021-03-13 Currently reading: Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder 📚
2021-03-11 A year ago today was my last day working on campus and the day we pulled our kids from …
2021-03-08 The herbs are returning.
2021-03-08 I don’t mean to brag, but I’m a Confluence pro.
2021-03-07 Grill night.
2021-03-07 The four seasons: summer, fall, winter, and the dogs chased a squirrel through the thawing yard and …
2021-03-06 I find the generational divide identified here too rigid (a lot of this speaks to my experiences, …
2021-03-06 As the snows melt, it appears a few over winter plants survived.
2021-03-06 I’m trying out this newsletter thing, inspired by @dancohen @lmullen and @ayjay. Introducing Breve, …
2021-03-04 Currently reading: Visualization and Interpretation: Humanistic Approaches to Display by Johanna …
2021-03-04 Crumb.
2021-03-04 More sourdough day.
2021-03-03 I know this made the rounds recently, but I just love this crowdsourced project collecting sounds …
2021-02-25 Honored that our book Digital Community Engagement won the National Council on Public History’s book …
2021-01-24 Well, tomorrow seems fun.
2021-01-05 Finishing Halt and Catch Fire has me jonesing to make an early ‘90s design of my website.
2021-01-04 Sourdough day.
2020-12-31 Later, 2020.
2020-12-30 In 24 hours, Flash is going away. I was not great at it, but Flash was one of my early forays into …
2020-12-29 Just a bit of snow today.
2020-12-27 Daughter is chanting “lefse!” so I’d say my work here is done.
2020-12-26 Current project! Kiddo always gets the best presents for me.
2020-12-20 Ice.
2020-12-16 Currently reading (finally): The Code by Margaret O’Mara 📚
2020-12-15 Cancelled subscriptions to the Peloton app and Down Dog in anticipation of Fitness+ and I’m pleased …
2020-12-15 “Today’s social networks, Facebook chief among them, were built to encourage the things that make …
2020-12-14 Thoughtful reflections on the “rules” for data visualization.
2020-12-13 Lussekatter. (St. Lucia saffron buns.)
2020-12-13 Pretty great interview from Outside Magazine with Tim Cook and Apple’s future in health, privacy, …
2020-12-12 Snow day.
2020-12-11 It took me far too long to discover Halt and Catch Fire.
2020-12-09 Time for some maintenance on a DH project, I guess.
2020-12-08 Listening to Margaret O’Mara deliver the Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities on “Remaking …
2020-12-07 Spicy Norwegian pepperkaker.
2020-12-05 Welcome inside, tree.
2020-12-04 I need to find some local juleøl.
2020-12-03 The American Historical Association has joined the National Security Archive, SHAFR, and CREW in a …
2020-12-03 Oh no, I might’ve just been inspired to start a new digital history project.
2020-12-01 “I cannot overemphasize how much the lesson of the web is that people, given the choice …
2020-12-01 Good news, we can gaze upon my lackluster programming skills for eternity.
2020-11-29 If Christmas music is your thing, I’ve got you covered. Here’s a few Apple playlists I started …
2020-11-26 I dag er det ett år siden jeg begynte å lære norsk!
2020-11-26 I have taken in the light / that quickened eye and leaf. / May my brain be bright with praise / of …
2020-11-26 [Newberry Library.]
2020-10-31 Boo!
2020-10-29 4yo, on pumpkin carving: “You guys are going to scoop them out. And carve them. I’m going to put the …
2020-09-24 Currently reading: Children of Ash and Elm by Neil Price. 📚
2020-02-29 Possibly some of the best footage I’ve seen on old F1 driving. Here, a short film focused on …
2020-02-24 Happy 27th birthday, Ruby.
2020-02-22 I’ve started digging into Rails, which I haven’t played around with in many years, and I’m …
2020-01-23 For a brief moment it wasn’t obvious to me that @lmullen’s newsletter in my inbox was a …
2020-01-10 I’m digging in to Observable notebooks, in part to re-familiarize myself with JavaScript but …
2019-12-19 It’s been a remarkable year. We gave birth to our second daughter. Those two provide so much …
2019-12-11 “Zero waste helps us reexamine our relationship with stuff in a way that can seem progressive …
2019-12-10 And the ultimate triumph of being anti-web is to make links scarce. The smallest possible number of …
2019-12-10 I’m peer reviewing conference proposals for Digital Humanities 2020 and, as always, I’m …
2019-12-09 A smart piece on why it’s so hard to get young people into activism in places where they feel …
2019-12-09 I just sent off a full book manuscript to my editor.
2019-12-06 I really enjoyed Firefox’s wrap-up of my year.
2019-12-05 I’ve been learning Norwegian 🇳🇴 and have to say the way Duolingo teaches possessive pronouns …
2019-12-04 I’ve created my first R package:a dataset of Superfund sites in the United States. …
2019-12-04 There’s something refreshing and liberating about checking in on Micro.blog, only to see that …
2019-12-03 The United States as viewed from California.
2019-12-03 “I’m acutely aware of the fact that in many contexts that I enter, I’m probably the only …
2019-11-30 “The U.S. government’s system for declassifying and processing historical records has reached …
2019-11-30 Over at the blog, I reflect on @lmullen’s first newsletter on the idie web.
2019-11-30 “Chatham House predicts urbanisation, population growth and economic development will push global …
2019-11-28 John James Audobon, wild turkey, from The Birds of America, ca. 1830.
2019-11-28 Thankful today for family, friends, colleagues, and students. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 Take some time to …
2019-11-27 Fantastic comic by Vrendi: Why Am I Scared to Ride a Bike?
2019-11-27 Excited to announce the volume I’ve edited with Rebecca Wingo and Paul Schadewald will be …
2019-09-05 Close. I think the book draft is close.
2019-06-26 Some summer reading.
2019-06-20 Inspired by the NYTimes piece showing where single family zoning is prohibited in several US cities, …
2019-06-18 “People who think of themselves as progressives, environmentalists and egalitarians fight …
2019-06-17 I just whipped up a small geolocation web app for a course I’m working with this Fall, in case …
2019-06-17 Me: opens Spotlight, types rstud Spotlight: Did you mean rstudio_logo_125x125.png? Me: muscle memory …
2019-06-17 Sad to hear of the passing of Alan Brinkley. His End of Reform is more or less canonical and a …
2019-06-15 Looks like I might be finding something to replace Dropbox.
2019-06-12 Punching “rstudio” into Spotlight keeps privileging Visual Studio Code and it’s …
2019-06-12 For the public historians hanging out here: interested in attending the Western History Association …
2019-02-23 Well, tomorrow is going to be fun.
2019-01-21 This morning, as I write about environmental justice activism, I’m struck by an idea to write …
2019-01-18 Then, college: 500 words!? How on earth will I write so much about this book? Now, post-PhD: 500 …
2019-01-18 I find it so hard to write book reviews on works intended to be synthesis. Especially one’s …
2019-01-17 “The relationship between education and economy is more complicated in Indian country than …
2019-01-17 Twitter clean-up.
2019-01-16 Currently reviewing.
2019-01-14 Back in August, Netflix wrote about how they use Jupyter Notebooks in their work. It’s a great …
2019-01-14 “Against the vast blue skies and craggy prairies, female ranchers … are also forging a …
2019-01-12 If you hate websites that stick bars to the top and bottom of pages (I’m looking at you, Medium), I …
2019-01-12 Snow day.
2019-01-08 My top nine songs in 2018 via iTunes brought to you by my daughter, mostly. (Compiled via this …
2019-01-08 New on the American Indian Digital History Project: The American Indian Magazine published by the …
2019-01-08 Human spatial memory is made up of numerous individual maps.
2019-01-07 Thank you, past self, for writing good code comments and documentation.
2019-01-07 My privacy tools this year: 2FA: Authy Browser: Firefox Email: ProtonMail IM: Signal Search: …
2019-01-06 Wonderful time, as always, at the AHA conference these past few days.
2018-08-10 Night number three at the Knoxville Nationals. This is my sixteenth race in twenty years since I …
2018-07-13 Terrific week spent with the Service Learning Academy!
2018-07-09 Finished the terrific new biography of RFK. 📚
2018-07-09 My week: attending a service learning seminar and thinking about library resources, partnerships, …
2018-07-06 A morning of writing.
2018-06-30 I am unreasonably excited about this open spatial data blogs.bing.com/maps/2018…
