About
When I was younger I wanted to be a poet. While I was in college I realized that this was impractical, and so I decided to pursue a Ph.D. in medieval English literature.footnote 1
In graduate school I found myself interested in textual criticism, especially in the transmission of texts and their material contexts. Around the same time, I became aware of the work of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium and other work in the production of digital editions of early texts. I loved teaching and learning with others, but the grind of the rest of the degree got to me. I distracted myself from my scholarly work by playing with technology. And so when I realized that I was unlikely to finish — let alone start — a dissertation, and even if I did, I was unlikely to beat out 300+ other candidates for the frighteningly few tenure-track positions that were out there, I decided a career transition was in order.
I’ve been building things on the web for a while. I started out at some fantastic design agencies in Chicago, and then I found my way to Facebook, Chegg, Transform, and dbt Labs. Throughout I’ve been obsessed with building accessible, usable things and fostering a welcoming, inclusive culture. These days I spend most of my time in a text editor and writing code for Netflix.
When I’m not working, you’ll find me with my family, hiking, climbing, cross-country skiing, baking, and reading. I enjoy soccer a lot, too — Minnesota Aurora (I’m a community owner!), Minnesota United, and Werder Bremen are my teams. I’m also probably too online.
Colophon
The site colors are inspired by the Towneley manuscript.
Everything is powered by web standards, along with Eleventy, Markdown, Nunjucks, and Pagefind. The site is hosted by Netlify.
All of the content and site logic exists on GitHub; feel free to file an issue if something is broken or incorrect. You’re even welcome to submit a PR if you’re feeling especially helpful.
I didn’t use any LLMs while constructing this site or what I’ve written on it. You’re welcome to quote, contend with, or remix anything on here but I’d appreciate a citation — and please let me know what you’re doing with it!
Fonts in Use
Webfonts are served using Adobe Fonts. I have far too many fonts I love; right now I’m using these:
- Minion 3 for body copy and the favicon; this is an update to an old favorite, with the added bonus that it has an actual yogh (Ȝ, ȝ);
- Gintronic for code and a few other things; and
- Piel Script for my name, hiding in the background of most pages.
Elsewhere
You can find me lurking — and sometimes contributing to The Discourse™ — all over the internet, including but not limited to: