Will Styler
Associate Teaching Professor of Linguistics at UC San Diego
Director of UCSD's Computational Social Science Program
Blog Posts
This page exists to contain ongoing writings, which may not merit their own dedicated page, but might still help somebody.
All things presented are my own words, not those of my employer or the University of California, etc.
- April 2025: Notes on running Linux on the GPD Pocket 4
- December 2023: Miscellaneous Linux Fixes
- December 2023: Selected Advice for Setting up a new Mac
- December 2023: Miscellaneous Linux Fixes
- November 2023: Moving from MacOS to Linux: What’s better?
- November 2023: Moving from MacOS to Linux: What’s missing?
- September 2023: How to improve ChatGPT by turning it into an Assassin Droid
- July 2023: Moving to Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite (and the things I had to fix)
- July 2023: How to make a spectrogram into a 3D Printed Physical Object
- Feb. 2023: Using Espanso (and other Snippet Expanders) to type in the International Phonetic Alphabet
- Updated Feb. 2023: Using IPA fonts with MacOS: The Comprehensive Guide
- Updated Feb. 2023: What kinds of jobs can a linguist get?
- Updated Feb. 2023: A Phonetician’s Software Toolkit for MacOS
Archived Blogposts
For nearly 10 years, I ran a language blog called ‘Notes from a
Linguistic Mystic’. Although I shut the (long-dormant) site down in
2017, both in an effort to simplify my online life and because some of
the early posts were very early in my learning, I’ve saved some
of the best, most helpful, and most popular content below, organized by
date.
- Pro-tips for running linguistic and psychological experiments (2017)
- How I lost my dissertation files (despite 7 different backup plans) (2015)
- How to write a dissertation in LaTeX using Markdown (2015)
- Building a Website using Pandoc, Markdown, and Static HTML (2015)
- Transcribe one thing every day that scares you (2015)
- What’s your dissertation about, anyways? (2015)
- The Contour Design Rollermouse Red Review (2015)
- Snake Oil Cryptography Contest Submission (2015)
- Ergonomic Keyboard Mega-Review (2015)
- Dear Mr. Morrow (2015)
- Dear Sra. Hinchey (2015)
- Using the HTK and the Penn Phonetics Lab Forced Aligner on Mac OS X (2014)
- “I sure wish I was driving this road in a city bus”: A meditation on the motorhome (2014)
- Of Google Translate and Rugged Anatomy (2013)
- Tacticool Crenellations (2013)
- Redefining Wellness - The language of Colorado Marijuana dispensary names (2013)
- Keyboard Ergnomics and Kinesis Freestyle Solo Mac Review (2013)
- Contour Design Rollermouse Free 2 and Evoluent Vertical Mouse 4 Reviews (2013)
- GeekDesk Max Adjustable Height Desk Review (2013)
- Coming Full Circle: Articulatory Setting and Point of resonance (2012)
- The R Word and the Euphemism Treadmill (2012)
- Pine Thugs: A useful neologism (2012)
- A Speech Geek’s Review of Dragon Dictate 3 (2012)
- Peer Review and the Web of Trust (2012)
- Same instrument, different acoustical soul (2012)
- FLICK BAD KERNING (2012)
- Doing Terrible things to Speech Recognition Software (2012)
- Converting Unicode IPA to TIPA for LaTeX documents, easily (2012)
- What’s the difference between Schwa (/ə/) and Wedge (/ʌ/)? (2012)
- “In the cloud”, or on somebody else’s computer? (2011)
- Using Festival TTS on OS X (2011)
- Scuse me while I mix up voiced and voiceless-unaspirated stops (2011)
- Unaspirated T’s from the mouth of Babes (2008)
- The Alchemical origin of “Hermetically Sealed” (2007)
- im in mai blog, postin’ bout cats: The Cuteness of Grammatical errors (2007)
- im in ur programmz, codin in ur dialect: LOLCode and Feline Dialectology (2007)
- Your New Phonetic Phriend: The Velar Nasal’ (2007)
- The glottal stop: your new Phonetic Phriend (2007)
- The IPA Translation App: a wonderful impossibility (2007)
- Theta and Eth: Your New Phonetic Friends (2007)
- The Halls of Madness (2006)