About a month ago, after running some updates on my computer, I ran into a problem: I could boot to a user screen, enter my info, and click login, but past that the computer was unresponsive to any clicks on the mouse or keystrokes from the keyboard. The desktop was also effectively blank, as if it had not fully loaded.

I started this site and blog around December 20, 2024. Since then, I’ve posted 13 times, including an earlier post today; 3 times in 2024, and added 9 posts in January of 2025.

Started reading Glenda, Rodney by Olivia Cronk yesterday.

Some time ago, I started collecting articles covering efforts to integrate LLMs into humanities research, and especially historical research. In the future, I’ll collect those here.

Earlier I shared that I was struggling with, but that I had mostly conquered, an effort to embed a Mastodon toot into an Eleventy post or page. I quickly realized that I had a few more challenges and, although some are specific to my Eleventy theme, I figure it’s probably useful to document some of it here. I am now successfully embedding toots on a Netlify-deployed Eleventy site. Here’s what I did should have done from the start, reflecting what I ultimately did but it in condensed form:

I spent a bit of time this morning – ok, honestly, a bit of last night, too – looking into ways to embed a toot from Mastodon into a blog post or webpage.