Notes for the week of July 26, 2021 Pronouncing non-English names for English speakers Steve M. Carroll has a handy collection of tips for pronouncing non-English names, with a specific focus on pronouncing those names with sounds we have in English. Some of the commenters on Hacker News have tips of their own, …

Backlinks 2021-07-26 Luke Edwards wrote up his experience creating a cross-platform desktop app using Svelte and a Desktop Web toolkit called Tauri, which is built in Rust and uses the platform’s web renderer instead of bundling its own, as Electron does.

Backlinks 2021-07-26 Luke Edwards wrote up his experience creating a cross-platform desktop app using Svelte and a Desktop Web toolkit called Tauri, which is built in Rust and uses the platform’s web renderer instead of bundling its own, as Electron does. 2021-04-05 Lots of love for Svelte and Tailwind. …

Notes for the week of July 19, 2021 This week in The Dragon of DC I made a tweak to the end of episode 3 (“Arcmagius”), changing the speaking style of the mysterious dragon. This came as a result of being unhappy with how she sounded in episode 5. Speaking of episode 5: It went live on July 23rd! …

Status update As of June 2021, the first draft is done! I’m starting on the editing process. I’m writing a book! Are you? I’ve written or co-written five books already, and I’m working on a new book to help technical people with the publishing of their own books. I’m mostly thinking of …

The Dragon of DC (affiliate link, thanks for clicking!) is a Kindle Vella serial, with the story written in episodes. The first five episodes are the “series premiere”. Here’s what the series is about: With magic unleashed in the world, “politics as usual” is truly over in DC. Senator …

Notes for the week of July 12, 2021 Chrome extension for Excalidraw Luke Murray is making a chrome extension that lets you draw on any page using Excalidraw. It will persist your changes locally. GitHub Copilot links In AI news, GitHub Copilot made a big, and controversial, splash in recent days. Here is a collection …

Backlinks 2021-07-12 In AI news, GitHub Copilot made a big, and controversial, splash in recent days. Here is a collection of interesting initial links about it:

Backlinks 2021-07-12 Politics: CNN’s John Avlon has a concise recap of the evidence that there was no significant voter fraud in the 2020 election, a lie that Trump persists with today. 2021-07-12 David Frum has a Politics twitter thread about how the government has required medical claims to be truthful …

Notes for the week of July 5, 2021 1dollarscan Andy Matuschak was lamenting the lack of good typesetting in ebooks, wanting the high-quality formatting you can get from PDFs. Michael Woods linked over to 1DollarScan which can scan your books for you ($1 per 100 pages). Eng Management for the Rest of Us and Widakk …