Why is it so normalized to make snarky side comments about LaTeX?
Actually I wanted to write about something different today and had a post already prepared. But then I came across yet another instance of people making negative comments about LaTeX (for apparently no...
View ArticleHow to maintain Twitter with little effort as an academic: The Ninja’s “How...
Academic Twitter can be an important tool for networking, we get it. But I’ve talked to more and more colleagues who have given up on Twitter because they felt that they couldn’t make it work and also...
View ArticleThe Right Mindset for Learning Challenging New Skills
In today’s post, I wanted to pick up again on a topic I had adressed previously in The most important book to read if you want to learn Digital Humanities, Computer Science, Maths, Programming or...
View ArticleHow to use Deliberate Practice to reach your Peak [Book Review]
Have you heard of the concept of “deliberate practice”? It’s a method for rapid skill aquisition through practicing in a certain way. The concept is discussed in detail in a highly recommened book:...
View ArticleThe 33 most effective productivity hacks I’ve come across in 10 years
Most productivity advice is essentially always the same. If you’re new to self-help, you will be familiar with the most important concepts after reading this post. It will sum up the best advice I have...
View ArticleThe LaTeX Newbie’s Guide to Using Overleaf for Conference Paper Submissions
Conference paper submissions in LaTeX are becoming increasingly popular in fields outside the technical disciplines (which have embraced them a long time ago already). Be that the Digital Humanities or...
View ArticleHow to write (Ancient) Greek in LaTeX
Because I’m a classicist by training, I have been wanting to broach the topic of how to typeset Ancient Greek in LaTeX for a long time. So today comes a short post on the topic. There are a number of...
View ArticleA shamelessly short intro to XML for DH beginners (includes TEI)
As some of you might know, I have been promising to provide an intro to XML for a long time.read more A shamelessly short intro to XML for DH beginners (includes TEI)
View ArticleWhy I stopped my Twitter bots
As some of you might know, I have written about my Twitter bots on this blog a number of times. Now I decided to shut them all down and wanted to give at least a short explanation of why that was....
View ArticleTraining my own Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model on Transkribus Lite
Today’s post is just a short essay describing my experiences with Transkribus Lite and creating my first custom Transkribus modelread more Training my own Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model on...
View ArticleFirst ever LaTeX Ninja workshop at Harvard: “Beyond TEI: Digital Editions...
It’s been awfully quiet on this blog but actually, there’s lots of Ninja activity going on right now: I’m excited to announce that I will give the first ever official LaTeX Ninja workshop, in person at...
View ArticleFailing just hard enough to learn [Learning & Teaching / Riding higher waves...
This post is another reflection on the relationship between teaching and self-directed learning. It focuses on how to find a balance with making learning too hard or not hard enough. Thus the title:...
View ArticleEnough reledmac to be dangerous: Scholarly Editing with LaTeX & XSLT
Today’s post is my long-awaited take on typesetting scholarly editons using the reledmac package. Not only does it introduce theread more Enough reledmac to be dangerous: Scholarly Editing with LaTeX...
View ArticleA Primer on Version Control and Why You Need It
Today’s post is a quick introduction to version control as a concept and version control systems. It explains what they are and why you should be using them. I was just sending one of my best old-timey...
View ArticleWhat you really need to know about Digital Scholarly Editing
Today’s post is a short introduction to digital scholarly editing. I will explain some basic principles (so mostly theory) and point you to a few resources you will need to get started in a more...
View ArticleWhat’s the deal with modelling in Digital Humanities?
Modelling is central to the Digital Humanities. Even so much that some claim it is what unites the DH as a field or discipline! But what is modelling? What do we mean by it anyway? This post will...
View ArticleData Feminism as a Challenge for Digital Humanities?
During the annual conference of the DHd Association, the Empowerment Working Group organized a workshop on the topic of Data Feminism in the Digital Humanities (organized by Luise Borek, Nora Probst...
View ArticleHow to create a ground truth data set for computer vision using Humanities data
Today’s blog post is a teaser for a video class called Computer Vision for Digital Humanities (funded by CLARIAH-AT with the support of BMBWF). The self-learning resource (video lessons plus Jupyter...
View ArticleWhat do we mean by ‘materiality’ in the context of rare book digitization?
Everybody is talking about “materiality” but what does that even mean? It’s actually kind of hard to understand the materialityread more What do we mean by ‘materiality’ in the context of rare book...
View ArticleWhy Do We Need to Digitize the Materiality of Pre-Modern Books?
Understanding the material aspects of historical books is crucial. Unlike modern books, copies from the same print run of historicalread more Why Do We Need to Digitize the Materiality of Pre-Modern...
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