Imaginary Text

Everything I know about sleep apps I learned from Kate Bush.

Yet another reflection on the experience of cycling among cars, inspired by a piece by John Watson on the cycle blog/website The Radavist. This is more about my experience of cycling than my experience of cars and drivers, but there's some of that too.

In which I find myself returning to an early-2000s paradigm of client-server apps instead of the web, because the web today is not the web of yesterday.

Some refections on living and perhaps nearly dying with cats.

My last post on Typst for a bit, I promise. This is an attempt to do a basic tutorial on producing nice PDFs from markdown, using Pandoc and Typst.

More adventures in open-source typesetting with Typst. This time: typesetting an actual book, with open-source tools. Plus: ghosts, dandies, and beheaded queens!

I want to sing a bit of praise for our heatpump. It's two years since we've had it, and I was reflecting today on how much I appreciate its quiet, stable service to our home. People wonder whether these things will do the trick, so here I offer up my experience.

In honour of International Women's Day, a review of Nancy Stock-Allen's excellent biography of type designer Carol Twombly, whose career spanned the whole first period of digital typography.

This coming June, at the DHSI, I'm renewing my course: *Text Processing Techniques and Traditions* -- or, Why the History of Computing Matters to DH. In which we zoom in on the continuities between print culture and modern computing, rather than seeing these as distinct lineages separated by a conceptual break. While re-writing the course, I wrote a short reflection on what it's about.