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Zack Batist @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

It's almost as if OSF was never truly aligned with researchers' needs and values 🧐

Screenshot of OSF's explanation for why they're stopping to host content. The content in the screenshot is about prevalence of researchers' use of private, un-shared content.

Zack Batist @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

Just created a little script that makes inline code blocks copy-able, and also identifies their language using border colour. github.com/zackbatist/CITF-Postdoc/…

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Zack Batist @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

Aside from sidebar elements that help visitors bounce around the pages, I think my personal site is pretty great even with css turned off #cssnakedday2026 zackbatist.info css-naked-day.org

Screenshot from my personal website, bereft of css, to celebrate naked css day!

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Zack Batist @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

Holy hell, the pretentiousness of this attempt at gatekeeping is beyond belief!

Screenshot of a landing page for a password protected Classics, Archaeology and Ancient History jobs wiki, with a highlighted portion that reads:

The password is the first phrase commented upon by Austin in his Little Red Oxford commentary on the sixth book.

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Zack Batist @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

[onpoli] @electricarchaeo Time to pull out my aptly-named instructional textbook about Hawaiian basket-weaving... (includes guides for making other nice things too, like decorations and headgear)

Picture of a book about basket weaving using palm fronds, titled "What are fronds for?"

Two-page spread depicting part of an instructional guide on how to weave baskets using palm fronds

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Zack Batist @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

Gonna test some DEs over the next few days. Maybe I'll post some of my thoughts here too.

Screenshot of my downloads folder with a bunch of linux ISOs

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Zack Batist @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

@jonny if only be become more aligned with nature

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Zack Batist @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025

Extremely unsatisfied with the new iOS. And little things like this make me wonder what they were thinking releasing such an unstable update

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Zack Batist @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025

So I'm using a CLI-based qualitative data analysis system (it's great! qualitative-coding.readthedocs.io) that I integrate it into my VSCode workspace. I happened to start experimenting with copilot last week and today when I started qualitative coding […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

Screenshot of a text file where I list qualitative codes applied to a parallel document. The codes I added manually are followed by a bunch of suggested text that present somewhat related concepts as the first codes.

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Zack Batist @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2025

My mom is reading a Jodi Picoult novel about romance among archaeologists (honestly, not far off from twitter.com/tinyarchae), and she sent me some really great descriptions of digital fieldwork methods

Screenshot of text from the novel The Book of Two Ways:

I touch the tip of the digital pencil to the iPad screen and watch a black line materialize. When it's too thick, I can redo it with the touch of a button. I enlarge the photographs to the point of graininess, and begin to etch pixel by pixel.

Screenshot of text from the novel The Book of Two Ways:

I lean forward again, moving closer to the virtual rock wall. "Epigraphy must take half the time."

"You have no idea," Wyatt replies. He tugs the goggles off me and hands me an iPad. "Alberto makes a flattened ortho image based off the high-def 3D image and sends it here. Then I can trace the hieroglyphs like it's a coloring book. You can manipulate the color and change the contrast if the stone itself is busy, like limestone, and you need to tell what's aspect of the stone and what's part of the carving."

"Then after he traces everything, I can put it back into the 3D image of the site," Alberto adds.

"It means we can get a final drawing even within one part of a given field season.

Screenshot of text from the novel The Book of Two Ways:

"You'll be making a paleography of the hieroglyphs near the burial shaft. They've been blocked by debris until now," Wyatt tells me. He turns to Alberto, who is setting up his camera equipment. "She's got Joe's iPad; can you send her the photographs?"

"Already done," Alberto says, his voice clipped.

I wonder again why he was so friendly when we first met, and now is formal and stiff.

Wyatt is already opening up the iPad and scrolling through photographs from different angles of the wall of the tomb in front of me. He unclips the Apple pencil and traces one of the hieroglyphs, just like he...

Screenshot of text from the novel The Book of Two Ways:

We are standing at the top of the shaft, drowned out by the noise of the generator as Alberto moves around the burial chamber by himself taking photographs of the coffin from multiple angles. Omar, the inspector, trusts him enough to be there alone. His light source is a battery pack that flashes every time he takes a picture, and with each snap, the photograph instantly appears on the iPad that Wyatt holds.

I glare down the dark shaft. There's another burst of light, and a photo blinks onto the iPad screen.

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Zack Batist @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2024

some of the books I read in 2024 (I gave several others to friends too)

two stacks of books: a series of short stories by Thomas Ligotti, Our Share of Night, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, The Story of the Lost Child, Crook Manifesto, Harlem Shuffle, The Storyteller, Frankenstein, Beloved, Bullshit Jobs, Perdido Street Station, Dust.

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