Digital History Hacks (2005-08)

There is now a GitHub source code repository for all of the code from Digital History Hacks .

When I began this blog, I had the idea that it would be an integral part of my critical and reflective technical practice. For the past thr...

(Crossposted to Cliopatria & Digital History Hacks) In December 2004, I bought a copy of Joe Martin's Tabletop Machining to see wha...

By hooking a computer up to a machine that can add, remove, cut or fuse material, it is possible to turn a digital representation into a phy...

[Crossposted to Cliopatria & Digital History Hacks] The Stock Market Skirt is a robot of sorts. Created a number of years ago by Toron...

This week I found myself in a somewhat unfamiliar situation. Along with Randy Shifflett and Fabio Lopez-Lazaro , I was asked to represent ...

In Seven Nights , Borges has an essay where he describes the process by which he first read the Divine Comedy : They were very handy books, ...