As predicted earlier, real life has consumed 100% of my energy for the last month or so, so I haven't made any progress on RefineScript/The Straightstone System/curingbarn.com/ManuscriptForge. I have, however, listened to some podcasts that I think are relevant to anyone else in my situation*, so I think I'll start a series of reviews. "When Communities Attack!" was presented … [Read more...] about Podcast Review: "When Communities Attack!"
Matt Unger in the New York Times
Papa's Diary Project got a nice write up in today's New York Times. I especially like that it's filed under "Urban Studies | Transcribing". … [Read more...] about Matt Unger in the New York Times
Name Update: Renan System pro and con
I've been referring to the software as the "Renan System" for the past few months. The connection to Julia Brumfield's community works well, and Google returns essentially nothing for it. The name is both generic and unique, so I registered renansystem.com. There's just one problem: nobody can pronounce it. The unincorporated community of Renan, Virginia is pronounced /REE … [Read more...] about Name Update: Renan System pro and con
Progress Report: Printing
I just spent about two weeks doing what's known in software engineering as a "spike investigation." This is somewhat unusual, so it's worth explaining: Say you have a feature you'd like to implement. It's not absolutely essential, but it would rank high in the priority queue if its cost were reasonably low. A spike investigation is the commitment of a little effort to … [Read more...] about Progress Report: Printing
Money: Projected Costs
What are the costs involved making FromThePage a going concern? I see these five classes of costs: DNS Initial hosting bills Marginal hosting fees associated with disk usage, cpu usage, or bandwidth served Labor by people with skills neither Sara nor I possess Labor by people with skills that Sara or I do possess, but do not have time or energy to spend I can … [Read more...] about Money: Projected Costs