I've been spending more time in the last year exploring modern web stacks, and have started evangelizing
for
Svelte-Kit, which is a new-ish entry into the often-mystifying world
of web frameworks. As of today, I've migrated this, personal web site from Hugo, which I've been using
the last couple years, to svelte-kit. Let me know if you encounter any broken links, unexpected behavior,
accessibility issues, etc. I figured here I'd give a brief explanation of why svelte-kit, and how I did a
Hugo-Svelte kit migration.
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Scott Enderle is one of the rare people whose
Twitter pages I frequently visit, apropos of nothing, just to read in reverse. A few months ago, I realized he had at some point changed his profile to include the two words “increasingly stealthy.” He had told me he had cancer months earlier, warning that he might occasionally drop out of communication on
a project we were working on. I didn’t then parse out all the other details of the page—that he had replaced his Twitter mugshot with a photo of a tree reaching to the sky, that the last retweet was my friend Johanna introducing a journal issue about “interpretive difficulty”—the problems literary scholars, for all their struggles to make sense, simply
can’t solve. I only knew—and immediately stuffed down the knowledge—that things must have gotten worse.
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This
article in the New Yorker
about the end of genre prompts me to share a theory I've had for a year or so that
models at Spotify, Netflix, etc, are most likely not just removing artificial silos that old media companies imposed
on us, but actively destroying genre without much pushback. I'm curious what you think.
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I've been yammering online about the distinctions between different entities in
the landscape of digital publishing and access, especially for digital scholarship
on text. So I've collected everything I've learned over the last 10 years into
one, handy-to-use, chart on a 10-year-old meme. The big points here are:
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I mentioned
earlier that
I've been doing some work on the old Bookworm project as I see that
there's nothing else that occupies quite the same spot in the world of public-
facing, nonconsumptive text tools.
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