Content curation! How do you cope with evolutionary documents? When do you clean up old wiki pages?
Today’s update is about my switch to curation/edit mode on my website, rather than blogging, for the next few weeks. Clean up is something we all stall on doing, but for me, the time to tidy is now. … More Content Curation!
A brief intro to the repo of examples associated with this blog. … More Glorified Plumbing – The Repo!
A follow-up on my last post about semantic line breaks, or semantic linefeeds. … More More on Semantic Linebreaks/Linefeeds.
Last night GitBooks completely garbled my paragraphs because I’d added new lines in the middle of my paragraphs. Something that I always do, but last night it went very wrong. … More Semantic Line Breaks
A teaser of upcoming technical posts on my blog. … More Upcoming Technical Content
What you see is what you get. A Helpful Tool There is a helpful type of text editing tool known as a WYSIWYG editor. They have been around so long that most of us don’t know that we used to do things in other ways. Microsoft Word is a great example. You type in text, … More WYSIWYG? An Apology.
The post discusses various text-to-diagram tools like WebSequence Diagram, PlantUML, and WaveDrom, and introduces a newcomer, Mermaid. The author embraces Mermaid due to its automation capability, integration with GitHub, and support for block diagrams, expressing intent to use it for future architecture diagrams. The constant evaluation of tools to fill specific needs is emphasized. … More Mermaid – another text to diagram tool
The author took a break and returned feeling relaxed, but faced a new challenge. In a startup without established infrastructure, they set up a workspace and various digital tools. They discussed the importance of storage solutions for efficient collaboration, and the need for a project management system. They sought suggestions for a low-cost project tracking solution. … More Back from a break…
I am creating a glossary to accompany my blog. I am also starting the internal dictionary within the company Wiki. While working on the layout, I decided to see if ChatGPT could help me. I still haven’t a final format, but I thought I’d share my journey with you. … More I am making a glossary, just for you
Ever since 2006, I have wanted to take a sabbatical. I wanted to take some time away from working on schedule-driven projects for my employer and do something for me instead. Why have I only wanted one since 2006? That’s a tale steeped in office politics and tech start-up financial drama. What I wanted to do during my sabbatical has varied, but it has always been more about writing (fact or fiction) or travelling than coding. The travel would have been a tour of India, to catch up with friends I met in Silicon Valley who have returned home. Fictional writing would have been purely for me, a complete shift away from work. Now I finally have the opportunity to take a sabbatical I have decided to try to write a book. … More How’s my sabbatical treating me?
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