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2026

• "I made... a bunch of new digital book history/arts projects & a site collecting them!"
• "I made... a zine: 'read censored history, thwart fascists.'"
• Update: I was awarded a monthlong funded fellowship & artist residency at the Penland School of Craft.

2025

• "What is #DHMakes Now?" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Brighter Social Media Skies: Bluesky For Library-Worker (and DH!) Online Community" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Multilingual digital book arts (& an example accepted conference proposal!)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• Update: Conference paper
• "I made... a zine: 'Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts'"
• Update: Grant awarded
• "How to get and/or print you some zines, for free" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Interesting digital humanities data sources" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "I made... a zine: *Queer Book History*"
• Update: I'm an editorial team member on a new, huge scholarly resource: *LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography*
• "Queer letterpress collecting & making" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Zine Bakery: Digital Humanities 2025 Conference Poster" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Resources from 'Brighter social media skies: exploring Bluesky for library-worker online community'" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "On the edge: printing zine margins" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Zine Bakery: borderless DH research, methods training, and scholarly communication via zines" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• Update: Public talk
• "Zine Bakery: borderless DH research, methods training, and scholarly communication via zines" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Pixels, paper, politics: a digital humanist booklab with an intersectional transfeminist frame" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• Update: Conference paper
• "Lasercutter Letterpress: reusable designs for letterpress printing blocks, stickers, & more" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Lasercutter Letterpress: making my own letterpress printing blocks—with lasers! and fire!" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• Update: Article publication
• "Governance docs can do good: a minimally-dry explainer for the DH scholarly org's recent constitution and bylaws updates" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Virtue signal more" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "I made... a zine: 'DIY Web Archiving'"
• "I made... a zine: 'Yes, Virginia, there is ICE here too'"
• "A #mincomp method for data display: CSV to pretty webpage" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "I made... a zine: 'The Good Pets of UVA Library'"

2024

• "I made... a web app aiding letterpress printing when you only have 1xA-Z type"
• "Reframing AI with the Digital Humanities" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Zine Bakery: borderless DH research, methods training, and scholarly communication via zines" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• Update: Conference presentation
• "I made... a zine: Look!! Here’s your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy: a collage mini-zine"
• Update: All Julia Evans Wizard Zines now at Zine Bakery @ Scholars' Lab
• "I made... screw-letterpress prints with the BookBeetle press"
• "(Re)connecting DH on Social Media" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "I made... a zine: Speedweve for Mending (#DHmakes Methodz Zines #1)"
• "Supporting healthy work-chore practices, as a manager" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Some email, Slack, task, and note-taking hacks for academic work, Pt 2: Slack, tasks, meeting notes" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "I'm making... Neon ghost book covers"
• "I'm making... Bluesky follower/following/list management tool using coding"
• "I made... a Provisional Press tabletop letterpress printing press"
• "I made... a Hobonichi-Techno-style notebook using bookbinding methods"
• "Getting through academic work chores, so you can get to better stuff (Pt. 1: Email)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Zine rack design" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "I'm making... a year-long letterpress printing apprenticeship"
• "🧵Data Physicalization Resources" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "What is #DHMakes?" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "The beauty of it" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Indicating zine-making effort? quality? format? type" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "5 things learned making my first complete zine" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Zine Bakery: catalog as dataset research" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "I made... a zine: *Lasercutting! Cheatsheet mini-zine for a Very Specific use case*"
• Update: Job title update
• "I made... took a 4-day letterpress printing intensive"
• "Zine Bakery: research roadmap" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Zine Bakery: topical zine collections" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Digital humanities makerspace research" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• Update: Conference paper
• Update: Conference organizing
• "I made... a new image-based data visualization"
• "I made... a new research project & associated website: ZineBakery.com"
• "Making your command line a tiny bit better" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• Update: Article publication
• "Scraping a webpage's list of linked files using wget" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Resin casting projects" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• Update: Conference workshop teaching
• Update: Invited talk
• Update: Invited talk
• Update: Article publication
• Update: Conference paper
• "Metadata for Zine Collecting" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "I made... a public zine distro! (physical zine distribution space)"

2023

• "DH pedagogies beyond the classroom" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Jekyll content interfaces: a review of tools for friendlier authoring/editing on collaborative Jekyll sites" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Getting started with Bluesky: social media scholarly community" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Themed reading lists as neat card decks! A tutorial and design discussion" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Learning Mastodon (and LinkedIn!?), leaving Twitter" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Lessons From The Lab: Designing Community-Forward Spaces" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "What is a job directing a humanities research center like?" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Career resource roundup for humanities graduate students" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2021

• "Building Community And Generosity In The Context Of Graduate Education" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2020

• "When They Came Down: Participating in crowdsourced documentation of racist statue removals" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Year of Book Blogging: thinking through a bookish project as potentially scary, just, and/or good" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "#GenerousThinking: A month of daily thinking toward a more generous academia" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "A digital humanist can have a little bread, as a treat" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Software licensing as feminist & queer digital humanities practice" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2019

• "Celebrating The Scholars' Lab Year of Blogging" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Digital humanities job talks: some case studies" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Personal guidelines for DH journal and conference reviewing" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "How We Talk and Write about DH Jobs" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Running a collaborative blog: A glossary for GitHub & Jekyll" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "A digital humanities management charter (part 1)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Archiving DH, Part 4: Solutions (co-written with Ammon Shepherd and Lauren Work)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "What about blogging keeps me blogging?" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "DH Archiving: Data Policies for Small DH Projects" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "20% Time: Why we make self-initiated research & development part of the job" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "ScholarsLab.org website relaunch!" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "A Moderate Proposal: Healthier Systems for Running Online Digital Humanities Communities" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "DH Dissertation to Director: Notes connecting my student and staff experiences" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Automating Webpage & Tweet Screencaptures" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "DH archiving on the Scholars' Lab Blog" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2018

• "Notes: Workflows to consider before opening a DH lab (Purdue version)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Notes: Wise resource investments for a DH initiative (Purdue version)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Notes: Planning a DH lab's physical location (Purdue version)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Notes: A mission statement for digital humanities (Purdue version)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Notes: DH initiative scope & practice (Purdue version)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Notes: DH initiative working with existing IT expertise (Purdue version)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Notes: DH hiring ads & HR policy (Purdue version)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Designing a digital humanities initiative at Purdue: all my notes" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "I/O: Reading & writing as a digital humanist" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Inclusive tech hiring for a digital humanities community tech engagement role" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Starter kit for considering a DH dissertation" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2017

• "Making a pneumatic tube messaging system" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Inclusive tech hiring for a digital humanities research developer role" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "DH Job Talk (for my new role!): Scholars' Lab Managing Director" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "New role: Scholars' Lab Managing Director" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "DH 2017 Long Paper & Panel Acceptances" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Theming Jekyll: Customizing the look of your GitHub Pages-hosted, Jekyll-generated website" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Buying digital humanities hardware (a proposal for an archival DH 3D scanner and 3D printer)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2016

• "Designing a Digital Humanities Initiative: Background & Campus DH Survey" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Meta-DH, or Designing and Building a DH Initiative" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Teaching with Omeka (DH consultation notes)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "A Digital Humanities What, Why, & How (DLF eResearch Network Talk)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Infinite Ulysses in the New York Times and other recent DH activity" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "How the Digital Humanities uses Slack to support and build a geographically dispersed intellectual community" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "The Digital Humanities Slack & Community Design" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Digital Humanities Dissertation Defense Talk" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Digital Humanities Dissertation Defense Advice" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Infinite Ulysses beta closes for 1.0 work" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Lunar dust & tapioca pudding (touring Purdue Archives' aerospace collections)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Building a static website with Jekyll and GitHub Pages" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Talking social web annotation at the Folger Digital Futures panel" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Making it public (a Knight Foundation News Challenge proposal)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Better tech via annotation (using Hypothesis to improve your technical documentation, code, and tutorials)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Peer review for my Programming Historian lesson on Jekyll+GitHub Pages website creation" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Service +/- collaboration for digital humanities in the library (a DH job talk)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Digital Humanities Annotates (#DHannotates)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Educase Podcast Interview on Digital Humanities Dissertations" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Digital Dissertations in an Increasingly Welcoming Landscape" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "The Filter Problem at the CODEX Literary Hackathon" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "The future of a thing is a return to its values" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2015

• "Introducing Static Sites for Digital Humanities Projects (why & what are Jekyll, GitHub, etc.?)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "ACH Executive Council" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Invited Speaking" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "A small sample of cool digital humanities info visualization projects & tools" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Digital dissertation defended!" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2014

• "Evaluating Non-Traditional Digital Humanities Dissertations" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Infinite Ulysses Technical Update: Summer 2014" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "User-testing a digital edition: Getting the feedback you need" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Getting Digital Humanities Done: Schedule, Software, Etc. for a Digital Dissertation" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Designing Digital Editions: Inclusivity vs. the Literary Canon" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Infinite Ulysses: Spring 2014 Tech Update" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Affinity of ideas: Using an affinity wall to map out my digital dissertation" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Dissertation Quick Video!" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "My Digital Dissertation: Public Humanities, Participatory Design, and Infinite Ulysses" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Notes from an Islandora Installation (aka Islandora Digital Edition Brain Dump)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Choosing the best format for your scholarship: digital dissertation edition" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Designing a digital scholarly article" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Tutorial: Omeka+Imagemagick Happiness with MAMP Pro 3" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Digital Professionalism for Graduate Students: How to Use Twitter, Blogging, and the Rest of the Web as an Academic" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2013

• "A Speculative Experiment, Useful Here and Now?: Tagging the Digital Edition" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Infinite Ulysses: Usability Personas and Site Content Ideas" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Copyleft, IP Rights, and Digital Humanities Dissertations" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Values" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Get Your Data into Gephi: A Quick and Basic Tutorial" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• ""Suppose there's some connection": Visualizing Character Interactions in Ulysses for Bloomsday 2013" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Bitcurator: Digital Forensics in the Archive" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Thinking Through Making: More Precedents for Scholarly Experimentation as Critical Work" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Digital dissertation deliverables (and how to complete them!)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "#OWOT a Week: Introducing Serendip-o-matic, a Tool for Digital Humanities Discovery and Delight" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Cat GIFs & Mrkgnao: Ulysses, Reddit, and What Digital Editions Can Learn from Online Communities" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Digital Disputations: A Tech Review of Digital Editing and Commentary Projects" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• ""Exquisite handicraft" or "book ghouls"? Grangerizing and Book Materiality" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Infinite Ulysses: Project Precedents and Caveats" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Experimental Editions: Digital Editions as Methodological Prototypes" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Infinite Ulysses: Planned Features for a Participatory Edition" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Infinite Ulysses: What if we build a digital edition and everyone shows up?" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "O rocks, again: More Info Visualization of James Joyce's Ulysses (Bloomsday 2013 Project)" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• ""Electronic Literature after Flash": Weirding Credible Digital Platforms to Tell Stories" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Building for the Great Conversation: Participatory Digital Design & the Urgency of the Public Humanities" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "My Digital Humanities Dissertation: Building Code, Design, and Games for Textual Knowledge and Participation" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Monograph Writing Isn't the Only Scholarly Act: Chronicle Interview on Digital Dissertations" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

2012

• "Info Dump: Humanities Ph.D. Exams Advice" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• "Recovering Teena Rochfort-Smith: Complex Edition Prototype, Female Victorian Editor" by Amanda Wyatt Visconti

Posts from November 11, 2012 and earlier are preserved locally rather than published here, because their age increases the probability I no longer agree with their content. Contact me if you need them for research or citation purposes; I retain local preservation copies.

• Living Editions: What Seminars Can Teach Us About Building Digital Editions (November 6, 2012)
• Book Ghouls: Grangerizing as Book Hacking's Black Sheep (November 5, 2012)
• Testing DH Sites: More on Use, Usability, and Usefulness (November 3, 2012)
• DH User Testing: What’s Been Done? (Adding to a Growing List of Resources) (November 2, 2012)
• The Amateur in the Archive: Toward a Wider Audience for Your DH Project (November 1, 2012)
• DH Evaluation: A Four-Part Series on User Testing Your DH Work (October 31, 2012)
• Quick and Dirty DH User Testing (October 31, 2012)
• Five Tips for Getting Started on a Digital Humanities Dissertation (October 22, 2012)
• The beauty of DH: We're all continually n00bs at something (October 7, 2012)
• View DHQ: Getting Started with Gephi for DH Vis (Part II of II) (July 11, 2012)
• View DHQ: Visualizing Data from Digital Humanities Quarterly (Part I of II) (July 11, 2012)
• O rocks! Tell it to us in plain images (A THATCamp/Bloomsday Visualization) (June 26, 2012)
• What’s Up with Digital Editing Tools? (Summer Conference Edition) (June 14, 2012)
• Mapping the Flow of Knowledge with "View DHQ": ACH Microgrant Award (April 19, 2012)
• “How Can You Love a Work If You Don't Know It?”: Six Lessons on Digital Editing from Team MARKUP (April 19, 2012)
• Useful prosthetics, pretty metaphors? (and more on DH tools) (April 12, 2012)
• Ulysses the Video Game and Anachronistic Linati Schema! (February 20, 2012)
• Think Like an Editor: Five Disciplinary Approaches to Editing Pedagogy (Society for Textual Scholarship Panel Abstract) (February 17, 2012)
• THATCamp Games: The DH and Games Unconference (February 11, 2012)
• Hack Books: Hack What? (January 27, 2012)

2011

• Digital Dos Passos (January 12, 2011)

2010

• Bringing ARGs into the Classroom (October 16, 2010)

2009

• Online Archives: The Deena Larsen Collection and Omeka (December 2, 2009)