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Aug 10 2022

[Review] The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Cruel and usual punishment doled out by a loving Father is one way to raise some angry kids and end the world.

Aug 01 2022

URL Checker for broken links and statuses

A common task for documenation maintenance is to scour the pages for broken links.

Jul 31 2022

[Review] Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

In a fight against interdimensional beings, the oppressed form a resistance against a monster invasion. Will their homebrew folk magic be enough to overcome temptation?

Jul 27 2022

[Review] Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Where cultists become infected with alien spores, time travelers work with American investigators, and TVs prophesize about aliens.

Jul 01 2022

Tabula Rasa Writers

What does it mean to be creative? Is creativity about being full of ideas? Whos' ideas?
Jun 19 2022

[Review] Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

As people raise robotic animals, a cat-and-mouse game of android hunting only helps the corporation manufacture them stronger.

May 23 2022

[Review] Gathering of Waters by Bernice L. McFadden

The novel is a multigenerational story of black families surviving on the cusp of 20th century Mississippi.

Apr 08 2022

[Review] The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

A river sifting and winding backwards, into the history and the unglamourous cruft of cancer treatment. This non-fiction novel chronicles a journey on how we’ve developed cancer medicine.

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Older Posts

Mar 15 2022

[WIP] Fifty Fifty-Word Fictions

Currently a work in progress. The goal is to reach fifty 50-word prompts. 13/50 done.

Mar 14 2022

Use a matrix to show the value of a technical writer

Technical writing ain’t sexy. You don’t produce numbers to brag about, and words are cheap. The work itself is like being forced to eat vegetables.

Feb 09 2022

How to create an online textbook

This guide is meant to be an easy and hands-off experience with publishing a textbook to the web, for free. It will let you practice sustainable authorship, expose you to static site generators, try Git as a collaborative tool, and understand why cloud computing is popular.
Jan 18 2022

How to edit if you are an "underwriter"

Your creative writing prose goes too fast. Unlike many writers, who pour out words of senseless generosity, your style is terse. You're an underwriter. But why?
Jan 17 2022

[Review] The Lure of the Basilisk by Lawrence Watt-Evans

Featuring a non-human protagonist, the imposing Garth has a simple wish: to be remembered well.

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