At the Half Way Point

Exactly two weeks ago I said I’d be blogging every day until my talk at SBL. Well, that’s two weeks away so I’m at the half way point. I think the blogging has gone well.

Many of the posts have been things I’ve had drafts of for a while. Others have been ideas that haven’t taken long to get down in a post. Attempting to blog every day means I haven’t really worked on posts that represent multiple days much less weeks or months of work.

In the next two weeks I do hope to talk about a few longer-running projects but, that said, I do enjoy getting down an idea or concept that’s just a short post but which has been on my mind for years.

Thanks to the people who have so far engaged with my posts via email and elsewhere. My interactions with you are a huge motivation for me doing this.

at the intersection of computing, linguistics, philology, and learning science

By day I’m an entrepreneur, web technologist and open-source developer but my academic background is in linguistics (along with some classics, comparative philology, and educational statistics) and my main avocation is working on text, annotations, analysis and software relating to historical languages with a particular interest in facilitating better learning.

While my focus has mostly been on Biblical Greek, much of the work is highly relevant to other Hellenistic Greek texts, other dialects of Ancient Greek and, indeed, texts in completely different languages as well.

All code written for this endeavour is open source and text and data is made available under a Creative Commons license to the extent allowed by the sources used.