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.

Some time ago, I thought to myself: Wouldn’t it be fun to bake through Rose Levy Berenbaum’s entire Bread Bible from start to finish?