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on the craft of writing and rewriting.
Write what you wish others had written.
Answer your questions, then document the answer for others.
It all started with an obstinate printer, and an early adopter desperate to leave Vista behind for the promised land of Windows 7. The printer, naturally enough, didn’t want to play along. Google held…
Copying is the best way to start.
Get your fingers and mind moving, and the words will start flowing.
There are two easiest ways to start running: Set out from the top of a hill, or take a dog for a run. The former sets you up for success; on a hill, one foot in front of another quickly builds enough …
The best way to write? Rewrite.
The trick to writing is writing the same idea over and again.
Intros are the hardest thing to write. It's rare for me to overthink a random paragraph halfway through an article, beyond keeping an eye on rhythm and repetition. Conclusions are easy enough to write…
Write in Markdown. Use HTML for everything else.
Sometimes simple isn't easier.
Four characters versus 18. That's the difference between adding double asterisks around text to make it bold with Markdown with two asterisks versus adding HTML's <strong>strong tags</strong&…
How to find out what people Google, and answer their questions.
Ask Google what they asked.
It all started when I googled markdown. I typed it in, and Google started trying to guess what I was looking for. Markdown cheat sheet, perhaps, or Markdown table? Those were the things most people se…
Ephemeral, or Enduring
Here today, gone tomorrow. Hidden today, valuable a hundred tomorrows from now.
52 years after van Gogh put brush to canvas, New York’s MoMA gave the painter its highest acclaim as it acquired his magnum opus The Starry Night. “Through his art and the tragic story of his life he …
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