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February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]
February 9, 2025In April 2005, I registered a domain name. I had a plan, and it was an ambitious one. I had read an O’Reilly book on XML (cover-to-cover) a couple of years beforehand, and it did something to my brain and I thought I could see through time. Weblogs were ascending fast, the web was exciting, … [Read more …] [...]

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Hey folks, what's the best format to supply for a self published ebook these days? My gut says EPUB should work with anything easily enough right? Is there any kind of desirable feature it's lacking? Don't intend any kind of DRM or anything, just something people can easily put on their dedicated book devices from their preferred supplier.

Extra question! Is there anyone out there who would actually want a PDF if any other option at all existed?

Trying to find a reasonably priced audio mixer with a specific set of features and nothing is quite exactly what I want, and have now reached the point of going "Well maybe I could build my own. I mean really ..."

That's when the Thought of Doom enters my mind. I know even as I think it, my descent into madness has begun. The phrase that must never be thought has been thunk. My fate is sealed.

"... how hard could it be?"

I'm not exactly going hard on the job applications, but it's feeling like I'm not getting much response from the ones I put out there. Can't help wondering if it's the fact that my "education" section of anything I submit is pretty much blank.

Half tempted to put an unrelated to the job, but total BS, entry in there just to see if people are filtering on "just have a degree in something" even when stating "or equivalent experience". 🤔