Notes from Felicia
John Gruber (Markdown’s creator) has some thoughts on Markdown’s success: [T]he biggest reason for Markdown’s continuing success isn’t Markdown itself. It’s the triumph of plain text files, both for system configuration and for the interchange of human-readable (and thus, LLM-readable) prose. Markdown isn’t really a “syntax”. It’s a set of conventions for formatting plain text. [ ]
I built my first AppleTalk LAN, for a community organisation, back in 1991. This organisation had five staff and three Macintoshes: two SEs and a IIci with a Macintosh Portrait Display. Plus a Personal LaserWriter NT. I built the LAN by plugging PhoneNET adapters into all four nodes (ie the three Macs and the LaserWriter) [ ]
Title case rules in English vary wildly and can be roughly divided in to the eight categories following. ALL CAPS THE WATER DAMAGE IS IN HER FAUX-ARMENIAN CATHEDRAL WING Initial caps for everything The Water Damage Is In Her Faux-Armenian Cathedral Wing Initial caps for everything, except non-initial articles, prepositions and conjunctions The Water Damage [ ]
My working life has mostly been in computer technology and software. Mostly as a technical writer but also as a SysAdmin and technology journalist. And, in my time, I’ve lived and worked through four so-called tech booms: The Internet/World-wide Web boom of the late-1990s; The mobile computing and social media boom of the late-2000s (ie, [ ]
You won’t be respected by dint of having Writer as your job title. You might be respected for writing well. More important than the respect of strangers, however, is money. And you were hired to write.
Independent film-making and independent music-making are long-standing and well-respected artistic and commercial endeavours. And, in both fields, ‘independent’ basically means self-funded (NB: the term gets a bit stretched in both fields. It’s perhaps more accurate to describe independent music and film makers as those who either self-fund or self-raise their funding. That is, they either [ ]
The sub-set of Mac OS X users and developer who actively prefer the platform to others = Oscar Wilde . The sub-set of Linux users and developers who actively prefer the platform to others = H G Wells . The metaphor's potential use is in its ability to make evident the often cross-purposes arguments of each community.
I m now sitting in the right-hand lane, waiting with half-a-dozen other cars for the light to change so we can cross or turn onto King William Street. It s about as mundane a setting as you could find in any city on earth. People in cars and on bikes and on footpaths going about their day. Unfortunately, on the footpath to my left, only a lane away, something ugly and stupid is happening. Even…
There are 54 people standing for 11 open seats in the upper house this election and some of them are truly awful. Now, I could vituperate these folk. I could suggest Barbara Pannach and Basil Hille (the two One Nation candidates) are representatives of a paranoid, xenophobic, anti-intellectual, anti-reality, 'I can't handle complexity and want things to be the way I thought they were when I was…
If the temperature today is 0 C, and it will be twice as cold tomorrow, what will the temperature be tomorrow?