This made me rethink of how necessary we need coding or programming to learn in DH? Sometimes DH students have misconception that they always need coding to work in DH field. The other more important element to work in DH is "the ideas" of what you actually what to build, transform and create. Computational tools or even coding skills will come after that.

There is still a criticism in DH as DH is an emerged new field which not a lot of people know what it is, people tend to contemplate what DH students learn and do. As a DH student, I am still not really sure with little knowledge I know about DH at this moment but I feel like it is going to be fantastic as we try to build up something by using computational tools for humanities.

It is fascinating to consider this phrase critically that digital humanists learn and combine different insights from many fields in order to discover or build something new using computational tools. That is why he says it is not about reading only but reading/researching in order to build new things. This also relates to the concept of yack and hack.

this concept probably can be applied to any fields like the quote "actions speak louder than words" but I think it also depends how productive and efficient of yacking you try to work on. Yacking is also important in the sense that It gives us understandings and fundamentals to further work on hacking.

Another emphasis on how theory does matter in digital humanities projects and work.

Interesting point! Those skills are not interpretations as they need to be provided with large data/information to function and generalize ideas which all commanded/built by humans.

Totally as I feel like digital humanities was developed based on the theory or the study of humanities disciplines, human behaviors, cultures and values along with the utilization of technology/computational tools to create or invent new things. Theory and humanities cannot be separated.