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February 2026

Here’s a bit of what I’ve been up to lately (specifically, I’m writing this on 2026-02-19).

PhD & Professional Stuff

participating in a Library Publishing Collective webinar on Developing AI Policies for Publications
being a guest at the Open Education Network’s Tea Time on peer review models
participating in an Open Education Association webinar on OER & Title II Accessibility Compliance: Separating Myths from Facts
reading lots from my teaching & instructional design reading list
participating in a Faculty Learning Community on Universal Design for Learning
collaboratively facilitating a Faculty Learning Community on “Ethical Frameworks for AI”
- This is part of what’s spurred me to add an /ai page to this site.
- I’m still very keen on avoiding “ethics-washing” regarding these technologies. This means I frequently bring up already-extent consequences of commercial AI, such as what we know from the NAACP’s Stop Dirty Data Centers campaign or the error-prone rollout of AI-generated alerts in health care.

Fun & Personal Stuff

reading Moby-Dick along with people on Bsky
adding resources to my new Shaarli-based bookmarks page
watching The West Wing for the first time
appreciating Focumon as a pomodoro timer that also lets you perceive growth through the growth of your little pixel art monster buddies, rather than just starting anew every day
slowly building a modified “Daily Pages” practice
- Specifically, I’m doing an adapted version of “Morning Pages” where I aim to journal at least 500 to 750 words throughout the day. (I rarely am able to journal first thing in the morning, which is my understanding of the the canonical Morning Pages practice.)

Right About `/Now`

This page is inspired by Derek Sivers’s /now page.

As of June 2024, I’ve adopted Derek Kedziora’s very clever dynamic now page approach. This approach uses Jekyll’s post category features to display the most recent post as the top content on this page (above the “Right About /Now” heading) and create the below links to past updates.

And as of January 2026, I further adapted Derek Kedziora’s Liquid code after realizing that on my site, this page was displaying the content of the oldest Now post rather than the newest.

Here’s that relevant Liquid code, as of 2026-01-31:

{% assign now_posts = site.categories.now %}
{{ now_posts.last.content }}

The Long `/Now`

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