Short Notes

October 31, 2019 2 min read The (free, open-source) org-checkbox extension is now available in the Visual Studio Marketplace for creating color-coded todo lists.

October 2, 2017 2 min read A GitHub Pull Request that I submitted to the roxygen2 project for R has been merged, allowing the use of all MARC Relator codes.

September 24, 2017 1 min read I’ve posted slides and a paper that Heather Wacha and I presented on assessing overlap between medieval maps at Book History and Digital Humanities: A conference at the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture.

September 24, 2017 1 min read veccompare, an R package I’ve authored with Heather Wacha, is now listed on CRAN.

September 1, 2017 2 min read In August 2017, I gave a new presentation on “non-psychometric” survey design. I am releasing the slides for that presentation.

April 3, 2017 2 min read After four years of figuring it out and two years of testing it, I have a small tip for incorporating handwritten and typed project notes.

January 20, 2017 2 min read The University of Pennsylvania has issued a Press Release about the Bollinger Fellowship that I’ve started this month.

December 23, 2016 2 min read I am very excited to announce that I will be beginning work in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania in January 2017 as the University Libraries’ Bollinger Fellow in Library Innovation through the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).

July 18, 2015 3 min read I’ve posted a video of a one-hour introduction to version control with Git for academics that I presented at the University of Oregon.

July 18, 2015 1 min read The Video Privacy Enhancer Plugin that I wrote for Pelican has been updated to allow embedding videos from Vimeo.