Three Things Thursday: Vibe Coding, Half-Frame, and Digital Archaeology

One of the simple pleasures of jet lag is getting a couple more hours of work time in the morning. This is both my best work time and when I’m least likely to get interrupted. As I noted yesterday, this is good timing because my to-do list after my summer research leave is pretty intimidating right now (and in the summers, I much prefer to go for a run or a ride in the afternoon even if I’m sleepy than trying to muscle through a couple more hours of work). Of course, I could be using this free time to get a jump on my copy edits for the day, but instead, I’m writing a blog post and thinking about making coffee. It’s 3:30 am! Thing the First Over the last year or so, I’ve been working on an article on the history of North Dakota Quarterly for a short contribution to the Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine. My piece will focus on the first 23 volumes of NDQ (from 1910/11-1933). You can get the drift of this work here. Early on, I used Google Notebook LM to create an index of…