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 ...

Kludge. Jury-rig (or the variant, jerry-rig). Lash-up. Sunshine Engineering (named for Mr. Sunshine, who bodged lots of things together that...

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...

We’re on spring break this week… like I said in the last post , we were supposed to be at the beach, but having to cancel a vacation falls i...

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 ...

While we were cleaning up the house, a Casio wristwatch turned up. Sizzle didn’t claim it, and I had never seen it before. Mason thought he ...

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...

In this adventure, we find that structure isn’t always structure. And sometimes, the structure jumps up and smacks you to get your attention...

In today’s installment of Life of a #techcomm Geek , we return to a subject that draws this geek like a moth to flame: file conversions. Haz...

A couple weeks ago, I noticed my phone was starting to discharge a lot faster than normal. Thinking I had issues with an app not being coope...

… 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...