About this Site
Why did I make this?
I wrote this essay in early 2019 in response to what I saw as an unquestioning embrace of trendy information-literacy pedagogies among fellow teachers and people who write about education. It is the first in a series about surviving in a world bereft of epistemological signposts.
I blog regularly at maxkapur.com, hosted on Blogger, but with this site, I wanted to try building everything from scratch. All the CSS is original and the content is hosted using GitHub Pages. I made a custom script in Python with Beautiful Soup to sanitize Word’s HTML exports.
This work—the text and code—is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. This grants you broad freedom to share and remix this work, as long as you credit me. Some content is included under other forms of public copyright license.
Please email me at max@maxkapur.com if you spot any dead links or mistakes, or just to say hi.
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Update: December 2022
After finishing grad school, I decided to relearn frontend web dev the “right way,”and have worked my way through most of the lessons The Odin Project. I undertook a major rewrite of the CSS for this site, which uses a proper grid layout with sticky positioning. The appearance should now be essentially the same as the original, but with greater consistency across browsers and faster load times.
I think this rewrite will fix a bunch of bugs, but I probably introduced some new ones in the process, so let me know.