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+# MOOC: Reproducible Research
+
+# 22/03/2024
+
+I started this MOOC a few days ago (18/03) and this is my first day tackling
+any of the practical exercises.
+I've been using VCS for many years, mostly github and a bit of self-hosted git, 
+and rarely collaboratively. 
+You *can* teach an old dog new tricks, and it's interesting to get some new 
+perspectives on otherwise familiar tools.
+
+## Thoughts/Musings
+
+- Some of the exercises in module 1 are posed quite ambiguously;
+- I'm looking forward to getting to the part about org-mode;
+  - I've been meaning to cultivate a proper note-taking system/personal 
+    knowledge-base for a couple of years, since I first became aware of 
+    Obsidian.
+- I really didn't know that scholars were using using XML (well, TEI) to make
+  linguistic/historical/literary annotations, but, well, that makes sense.
+
+## Interesting links
+
+- [Sustainable Authorship in Plain Text using Pandoc and Markdown](https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/sustainable-authorship-in-plain-text-using-pandoc-and-markdown)
+
+I genuinely had no idea about Pandoc prior to this MOOC, and converting from
+markdown to PDF is pretty cool.
+Despite years working with markdown for READMEs and documentation, I didn't know
+that one can add a YAML metadata block to the top of a markdown file.
+I recently learnt about markdown footnotes, but I didn't know you could cite
+entries in a .bib file.
+Typora supports shorthand links, e.g. `<https://fun-mooc.fr/>`; I wonder whether
+other platforms do too; let's give it a try: <https://fun-mooc.fr/>
+
+- [The Measure of All Things](https://www.amazon.fr/Measure-All-Things-Seven-Year-Transformed/dp/0743216768)
+
+Who would've thought that a book about white dudes on ships (presumably 
+measuring stuff) would be held in such high esteem?
+
+- [Maintaining a laboratory notebook](https://colinpurrington.com/tips/lab-notebooks/)
+
+Colin Purrington's guide is pretty rad.
+Probably a bit too hard-science to be of relevance to my work, but you never
+know.
+If I can incorporate even 25% of the rigour that's described there into my own 
+practice, I'll be in a much better place than I have been to-date.
+
+- [Transcribing medieval manuscripts with TEI](https://andrewdunning.ca/transcribing-medieval-manuscripts-tei)
+
+(See above.)
+Chances are I'll never (need to) use TEI, but I'm into it.
+
+## Some software I wasn't previously aware of
+
+### Pandoc
+
+Markdown to PDF? To HTML? With metadata-awareness? Yes please.
+
+One issue... Pandoc doesn't appear to like display-math blocks containing
+nested environments, e.g.
+
+```markdown
+$$
+\begin{align}
+e^{i\pi} = -1
+\end{align}
+$$
+```
+
+GitHub doesn't appear to have a problem with that sort of action.
+What about GitLab?..
+
+$$
+\begin{align}
+e^{i\pi} = -1
+\end{align}
+$$
+
+### DocFetcher
+
+Not sure I'll use it, but then again there have been various times when I've had
+to resort to trying `find` or `locate` at the (Mac) command line, and it's been
+painful.
+
+### ExifTool
+
+Perhaps I *should* be adding metadata to my images and audio files.
+Worth remembering that, in addition to EXIF, 
+[XMP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform) exists.