Software ⁽¹³⁾

I don't need to be the umpteenth person to tell you, in dramatically vague terms, that cloud computing and software-as-a-service have (*Paul LaFontaine voice*) changed the very society we live in. But every now and then I am reminded that the Big Tech consolidation and…

Let's talk about Homebrew. No, not the beer-making technique that left you befuddled by the appearance of approximately two thousand quirky-named, identically-tasting IPAs at the liquor store. I mean the popular package manager for macOS. Homebrew is a beloved tool of digital preservation educators and…

A couple weeks ago, there was a Forbes article that caught my eye. (No, librarians, it wasn't that twaddle, please don't hurt me) No, it was this one, relating one writer/podcaster's decision to switch to Linux as his everyday operating system after a few too…

A couple of times at NYU, a new student would ask me what kind of laptop I would recommend for courses and professional use in video and digital preservation. Maybe their personal one had just died and they were shopping for something new. Often they'd…

Last fall I wrote about the collaborative technical/scholarly process of making some '90s multimedia CD-ROMs available for a Cinema Studies course on Interactive Cinema. I elided much of the technical process of setting up a legacy operating system environment in an emulator, since my focus…