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Very short post! I have updated the project page for my PhD project on this website; hope you enjoy!
One of my PhD student colleagues suggested we have a workshop for the FITLab Reading Group1 on the ways we take notes as researchers as that’s the crux of his PhD project, and we both agreed it would be useful for new PhD students and research officers, assistants, and interns. It’s definitely on the FITLab Reading Group agenda, amongst other proposals for internal (social) research training.
This is our reading group for researchers in HCI at Swansea University (I’m a co-organiser for the group). I recently redesigned and updated the website (and got the subdomain sorted); I’m pretty happy with it! ↩
Quick technical blog post; I have been trying to work out how to automatically format LaTeX source to insert line breaks at 80 columns (I have an example of what I mean on a sourcehut paste, transforming source.tex into formatted.tex). I knew you could do this using Emacs and Vim, but didn’t know how to do this in VS Code (which is the editor I use to author LaTeX documents).
A quick update! I have launched a discussion / mailing list for my PhD project for updates about the project, and for discussion amongst folks interested in the work I am undertaking. Many thanks to the wonderful folks at Geeks for Social Change (GFSC) for hosting this!
Recently I’ve done lots of life admin and sysadmin work. On the latter part, I’ve started hosting some cloud tools that are useful for my PhD work, these include: HedgeDoc (collaborative note-taking), Vikunja (planning / Kanban board), Rallly (for time polls), and Miniflux (feed reader). I really care about free and open-source software (as I’ve discussed briefly previously), and have committed to using FOSS in my PhD work and personal life except where absolutely unavoidable. Also, much of the impetus in hosting my own infrastructure comes from Elmar mc.fly Lecher’s “Run your own fucking infrastructure - 2024 edition” talk1 at EMF 2024 (unfortunately not recorded). This has culminated in me having a very sysadmin-focussed mindset lately.
I’m a long time user of Taguette1 (missing reference) (free + open source software for computer-assisted qualitative data analysis), using both the “desktop” and self-hosted versions. I find NVivo to have far more functionality than I actually need, and I have a general distaste for proprietary software, making Taguette ideal! During my master’s project, I needed to install Taguette on a Linux machine (my laptop running Manjaro) and found the documentation to do so less than ideal. I ended up using Docker, and I replicate the instructions here in case they are of use to anybody! This is a paraphrased version of the instructions I originally had in the appendices of my master’s dissertation.
Does two years of on/off usage count as “long time”? ↩
I am writing to a number of organisations supporting transgender people across Wales and inviting them (or representatives) to be part of what I’m calling a “PhD advisory network” — in essence a group of stakeholders who I can query about current gaps in knowledge, and seek specialist advice for conducting my PhD (“Towards an understanding of transgender digital poverty in Wales”). I reproduce this email below so that the invitation can reach a larger audience.
Shwmae pawb! Welcome to my website (and the first blog post on it)!