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2026

24 Mar: Git sparse checkout

I sometimes find myself wanting to work on a project involving data or code from Github. Many such repositories are quite small and easy to work with, containing mostly text files. Occasionally, howev.. (more)

2023

08 Jun: Teaching ‘Language and the Computer’

Last semester I taught an introductory Natural Language Processing (NLP) course at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. I wrote a thread about it on Twitter (now X) but here is a slightly expa.. (more)

2017

23 May: Backing Up with Git and the Cloud

My next post was intended to be about streamlining a workflow by using various LaTeX authoring tools and a bibliography manager, but last week my Mac died. It is an older computer admittedly (from 201.. (more)

24 Apr: Using Git for Linguistics

Recently, I started to explore using Git to maintain and organize my data. This includes both the primary data I work from as a linguist and the various kinds of data I produce in the form of written .. (more)

05 Mar: Linguistic Tools (Mac/PC)

When I started my PhD program in Linguistics (language documentation and description), I had some experience with linguistic analysis, but not to the degree that I had to learn in order to complete my.. (more)