Open Paren Episode 3: Miriam Posner

03/24/16 • 39 min

We chat about what “digital humanities” means, some thought-provoking projects and articles, the limitations of metadata in describing diverse experiences and how to build interfaces that grapple with these limitations, useful tools to learn if you want to do DH work, and more.

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Episode 2: Francis Kayiwa

Telecommuting via robot; how Francis got into system administration (and library school) by way of a Kenyan computer club and his dormmates' advice; late '90s computer science curricula and why things are better now; why Docker is the new hotness (and containerization can make your life than virtual machines do); learning from your social circle; documentation as hospitality; what Francis' favorite operating system is and why (spoiler alert: it's the one that makes him swear the least); and administering lots of servers at once with an Ansible playbook.

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Episode 4: Whitni Watkins

We talk about ending up in programming without a CS degree, informal learning and hidden prerequisites, using programming in your life, Code Club, teaching yourself and others to code, and Whitni's unbelievably freaking cool app that uses echolocation to help you evaluate whether your library spaces are acoustically well-suited to their functions.