Backup. It’s one of those anxiety provoking dirty words. We all want to feel happily ignorant that the possibility of losing our precious data could actually happen to us. And …
Author: Sam O'Hana
Sam is a doctoral candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, researching creative lifespans. He previously worked in public programming at Howl! Arts and the Bowery Poetry Club.
What’s in a Wiki?
What are we really asking when we ask people to contribute to a crowd-sourced project? What do they gain? What are the ethics or politics? Is it best to ask …
Speaking of ‘Speaking in Code’ (Part 2)
As noon approached, lunch beckoned and the discussion became atomic, situational, one-on-one. Folks began following each other on Twitter, gathering their thoughts, etc., and just then I heard fellow historian …
On Being Stuck
In the digital sphere, people like to wax poetic about experimentation and play. We like to encourage failure and serendipity and downtime. These are all good things. But sometimes when …
Speaking of ‘Speaking in Code’ (Part 1)
In early November I had the opportunity to participate in the Speaking in Code conference at the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, a summit on the …
Learn Bootstrap Part 3: Customize Bootstrap and Add a Header
For this lesson, we will generate our own customized version of Bootstrap with modified colors, styles, etc., add it to our WordPress theme, and then incorporate Bootstrap into the site’s header.
Learn Bootstrap Part 2: Adding Bootstrap to WordPress
This post is the second in a series of lessons on using the Bootstrap web framework to develop a WordPress theme. In this lesson, we will take the first step toward incorporating Bootstrap into WordPress.
Learn Bootstrap Part 1: Getting Acquainted with Bootstrap
This is the first in a series of posts that will serve as a mini-course in using the Bootstrap web framework to eventually build a custom WordPress theme. What is …
All That is Digital Melts into Code
The world of DH is one in which lofty dreams and visions of the digital transforming the social are frequently confronted by the challenges of coding, the limitations of the real, and the contradictions--perhaps fallacies--of modernity and modernization. This analogy lends caution to DH undertakings ignorant of the realities of implementation. But this also means that all that is within the world of DH is easily collapsed onto the realm of "coding". Meaning that despite the realities of coding and implementation of DH projects, there is an assumed teleological link between project and coding. Without going into counterexamples of where this link breaks down, allow me to instead provide a brief clarification of the concept of 'coding' that I think underlies some of this confusion.
Linking Outside the Box (Linked Data for the Uninitiated, Part 2)
My last post, “Linked Data for the Uninitiated,” was designed to introduce the concept of Linked Data, a philosophy that constructs information to be readable and useful for both machines …
