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 “It is, I came to realize, the very user-friendliness of the bakery that may account in part for the confusion the people baking feel about themselves as bakers. In all forms of work, from sculpting to serving meals, people identify with tasks which challenge them, tasks which are difficult. But in this flexible workplace, with its polyglot workers coming and going irregularly,…




 
 The Blue Nile - “Tomorrow Morning” 
 
 
 
 





 
 Fugazi - “Full Disclosure” 
 
 
 
 





 
 Eurythmics - “I Saved the World Today” 
 
 
 
 


This informal post explores three things I spend time thinking about and investigating when creating product docs: 
 
 What the product is supposed to do 
 What the product suggests you should do 
 What the product allows you to do 
 




 
 What the product is supposed to do 
 
 This is the category of behavior associated with problems the…

 TL;DR: If you want to customize your tables and you don’t want to start with Pandoc’s default reference.docx template, you need to create your own new table style, name it Table , and modify that style to do whatever you want tables to do. 
 I’m helping automate a documentation process at work, and the last step involves converting a Markdown file to .docx. The team…




 
 The Roches - “The Train” 
 
 Can’t we have a party? 
 
 
 





 
 Joni Mitchell - “Other People’s Parties” 
 
 Speaking of parties. That acoustic riff! 
 
 
 





 
 Magnolia Electric Co. - “North Star” 
 
 
 You…
2025-11-15 update: I migrated this blog to Hugo and use Cloudflare for hosting, so this process is out of date. But I’ll leave it up for posterity. 
 I want to kickstart an extracurricular writing habit. I also want to write down the process I use to update this site from my iPad, so I can look it up after the writing habit has gone dormant and I need to remember how it all works. This…
Here’s a link to a Spotify playlist with a bunch of songs I like: Spin Cycle . 
 I think I’ll keep adding to this. I want an evergreen playlist with ten thousand great pop songs. 
 If you want an implementation of this idea by someone with much more interesting taste, check out Ben Watt’s Spin Cycle playlist. I love to discover music by learning what other people are…