Just wrapped up the last live workshop of the NEH AI+DH learning community workshop series @melstanfill.bsky.social and I have been running this summer. The suggested readings, exercises, and recaps of the live workshops are available here: anastasiasalter.net/NEH_AI_DH/

For contrast, last time the bow was comically large.

It's been a long week, please enjoy the comically small bow my tiny dog was wearing when I picked her up from grooming.

Playing with Fable to get a sense of the capabilities before my workshop next week and it is a lot of fun for adding totally unnecessary features to my website that spark joy. Handles existing messy code impressively well.

We're twelve days from the @eliterature.bsky.social ELO (un)supervised 2026 online conference, hosted by @ucftandt.bsky.social - browse the schedule in your time zone and register now at: anastasiasalter.net/ELO2026/ - the conference is free with ELO membership!

We are excited to have the awesome @eliterature.bsky.social Electronic Literature Organization Vol 5 editorial team visiting UCF CHDR for their retreat & sharing some insights around AI and creativity today!

We are excited to share the program for our fully online @eliterature.bsky.social ELO 2026 Conference, coming up this July! Check it out and consider registering to join us if you haven't - it is free for all ELO members! stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/comb...

This is fascinating, might be fun to have students take a look at to explore representation across different fields.

Khan's "vision" for education coming right out of Wall-e...

For some reason, my 4.5 pound dog was intimidated by these observers of our walk. #birdscrolling

This generator of personal attacks hit particularly hard for me as someone who wants to believe students still get my pop culture references 🫠

About to give a talk on authorship, low-code tools, and agentic AI futures. I went a little extra with the slides so I've shared them here: anastasiasalter.net/AuthorFuncti...

For your #birdscrolling break, this cardinal took glamour shots in our birdbath.

When I'm showing folks agentic AI I usually demo Perplexity's Comet, which similarly can manage most tasks in Canvas directly - also, unsurprisingly, marketed towards students, with only a little more subtlety. (2/5)

I've spent too much time today grumbling about the Einstein "AI Homework Agent" that's making the rounds even though this is just rebranded, banal AI agent stuff. Most of this is already simple to do without buying someone's specific course plagiarism agent. (1/5)

Please enjoy the additional irritated owl photos that I would normally not have been allowed close enough to take.

My afternoon took a turn when I came across this barred owl. Took it to the local rescue, he had enough energy to be indignant so fingers crossed.

The first day of classes is upon us, and I'm excited to be teaching a new version of my Critical Making course with an emphasis on thinking about voice and intention through multimodal expressions. Initial syllabus here, but the exercises will be updated as I go: anastasiasalter.net/CriticalMaki...

As the book exhibit at #MLA26 is wrapping up this morning, consider dropping by to check out the new Replay series from @uchicagopress.bsky.social with my book on Undertale and @n-w-f.bsky.social on Animal Crossing.

Thanks everyone who joined us for Distant Coding at #MLA26! I've updated the resources page with a transcript of the workshop as well as some of the examples we created together during the session, please enjoy the millennial nostalgia 🤩 See it all at: anastasiasalter.net/DistantCoding/

The submissions portal for our next @eliterature.bsky.social conference, which will be fully online including performances and a hypertext electronic literature exhibition, is now open at stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/ - please submit an abstract by January 15th to join us!

We're excited to be hosting the next fully-online #ELO2026 @eliterature.bsky.social conference at UCF. As before, we're committed to a low-cost event with an open access archive of recordings and a virtual exhibition open to all. CFP up now: projects.cah.ucf.edu/elo2026/ #dhmakes

One of the lovely things about Florida.

Getting really tired of this robots in space maintenance screen today. Maybe concentrating our infrastructure to rely heavily on a single cloud computing provider was not a great plan...

My new book Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope? is out today from the @uchicagopress.bsky.social Replay series, which is dedicated to short, personal takes on games. I hope it invites readers to visit (or revisit) the Underground and befriend some fabulous monsters. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The first copies of my next book, a short reflection on the lasting impact of indie game Undertale, have arrived at @uchicagopress.bsky.social and are in good company with @n-w-f.bsky.social's upcoming book on Animal Crossing. Find both at: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...

Great moments in interface design. Why do we even have that button?

First week of fall semester is wrapped, and my floofy kitty and I are on the same page.

First day of our fall contracts. I get tired of thinking this is going to be the worst year of my career in higher education, but here we are again. Seemed like a good night for a theme park.

Taking some time with the pollinators this morning with the first day of fall contracts looming over the week.