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Apply for the 2027-2028 Graduate Fellowship In Digital Humanities

Applications are now open for the 2027-2028 Digital Humanities Fellowship. Find More Details Below. The application deadline for fellowships to be held during the 2027-2028 academic year is February 15th, 2027. More details on how to apply at the end of this page. If you’re interested in learning more about…

Optimizing Git Diff for Prose

I wrote my dissertation in markdown and used Git for version control and pandoc for document conversion. It was… okay. Honestly, it was pretty annoying. One of my key frustrations with this approach was that Git’s default line-based diff is not ideal for natural language text where lines can contain…

I Had the Dream!

I had a dream last weekend about running (or flying) up and down inside a brick pagoda — probably the one at Guoqing Monastery, in Tiantai. Once I woke up, I quickly jotted down some fleeting memories before they disappeared. It has been my personal superstition (or fun fact) that…

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