Tales from FAR Manor

A future project—I plan to start on it in earnest early next year—is requiring a specific set of “reset reason codes.” The codes, and their ...

Image source: openclipart.org Last time I had to deal with an API, it was pulling a vendor’s documentation into our own system. Now, I have...

A couple weeks ago, I finally decided to start pulling in all the notes I’d saved up from Evernote and Google Keep into Logseq. I started wi...

Some 15 years ago, I was enjoying Journler . The thing I really liked about it back then was, it could post an entry straight to Blogger. Of...

Image source: openclipart.org A couple weeks ago, I got an email from a product manager: Can you convert these API documents to our format? ...

One of the advantages of having a DITA-based workflow for technical writing is for translation. During the acquisition binge that ended with...

It’s been a while since I did one of these, and this one goes in deep. We’ve been using DITA at work for a year or two now, but rarely is ...

Kahuna, my late-2013 iMac, has been really laggy as of late. Running EtreCheck suggested the hard drive might be failing, although it gave n...

One of the advantages of using a text-based markup grammer for documentation—these days, often XHTML or some other XML, but could be Markdow...

… is out. This is a quick bug-fix release, the PageUp and PageDown keys should now work properly (on Macs, use Fn-up-arrow and Fn-down-arr...

The series rolls to an end… In Part 1 , we had a look at Markdown and the five or six formatting symbols that cover 97% of written fictio...

The series rolls on… In Part 1 , we had a look at Markdown and the five or six formatting symbols that cover 97% of written fiction. Part ...

The series rolls on… In Part 1 , we had a look at Markdown and the five or six formatting symbols that cover 97% of written fiction. Part ...

The series rolls on… In Part 1 , we had a look at Markdown and the five or six formatting symbols that cover 97% of written fiction. Last ...

Last week, I showed you a brief introduction to Markdown . I only hinted at why you might want to use Markdown instead of comfortable old bo...

I’ve said this before, but for people who want to make a living (or even beer money) writing fiction, the best writing advice out there is s...

I didn't get this posted Tuesday. Oh well. The two biggest components in this release are compatibility enhancements: Tines now c...

“ I’m a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can ...