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2025
The Sirens’ Call: Do I have your attention
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes (Penguin, 2025) exposes the attention economy. "The platfor...
Searches: A glimpse into and a warning of the singularity
A glimpse into and a warning of the singularity
README driven development
Many software projects suffer from a common problem: they have little or no documentation. How do you promote a project when no one knows what it does? I re...
Convert Word documents to Markdown
Many developers write their documentation with a program like Microsoft Word. Word is widely available and easy to use. All you need to do is start writing....
2024
Industry subject matter knowledge and tools skills
An exploration of current tech writing industry standards and tools.
W3schools HTML tutorial write-up
My thoughts on the W3school’s HTML tutorial.