#writing (69 links)
- Don’t let AI kill the author economist.com
- What AI has in common with dogs economist.com
Back when dog technology was first being developed, it was far from obvious that it was safe for people—who were literally inviting wolves into their caves. They had to train them not to eat babies. Thousands of years later, dogs still sometimes escape and go rogue. But overall, people are happy with how things have worked out. (It did not end so well for the Neanderthals.)
Great analogy.
- RIP Claude randsinrepose.com
- How to spot AI writing economist.com
Large language models like long words and em-dashes—or do they?
- Text as Music jeravalue.com
Paste or write anything below. Each sentence is highlighted by its length so you can see the rhythm of your prose — a wall of one colour is monotony; a healthy mix is music.
- Guide to Punctuation - University of Sussex sussex.ac.uk
More general than the title suggests.
For the sugggested re-reading order:
* Thousand Autumns * Cloud Atlas * Utopia Avenue * Black Swan Green * Ghostwritten * Number9Dream * The Bone Clocks * Slade House
- Make better documents. - Anil Dash anildash.com
We almost never actually teach people how to use the ordinary tools of business communication in more effective ways. So, I'm gathering some advice that I regularly share with people, in hopes that this helps you get your messages across more effectively.
- How To Write Stuff No One Else Can thewritetoroam.com
Round robin letters allow relationships to survive the distances and distractions of modern life. They are the friendship equivalent of a mid-ranking CIA official visiting Beijing for talks: they can pave the way for a proper meeting.
- The World’s Writing Systems worldswritingsystems.org
- Is the Latest Daredevil Shake-Up a Sign Marvel TV Will Be ‘Born Again’ — Again? | Rotten Tomatoes editorial.rottentomatoes.com
- Blog post formats for teams usethehumanvoice.com
- The Disappearing Acts of Haruki Murakami thenation.com
His readers might recognize his signature touches—affectless narration, illogical plot turns, strangely dispassionate sexual encounters, all brought to life via a suite of signifiers with an unarticulated personal meaning, such as the many references to music, baseball, cats, cooking, and so on—but they belong to Murakami. (That said, the English novelist David Mitchell’s Number9Dream comes thrillingly close to Murakami, maybe the most successful work of literary fan fiction ever published.)
- Diátaxis Framework diataxis.fr
The Diátaxis framework aims to solve the problem of structure in technical documentation. It adopts a systematic approach to understanding the needs of documentation users in their cycle of interaction with a product.
- The Breeders: Pod Album Review | Pitchfork pitchfork.com
Always worth revisiting.
- FAQs: why we don’t have them - Government Digital Service gds.blog.gov.uk
Old-ish but gold-ish.
- Tips for writing good weeknotes – gilest.org gilest.org
- Readability Guidelines readabilityguidelines.co.uk
- Get started | Learning Synths learningsynths.ableton.com
- How Watership Down was written 1843magazine.com
- HE GAVE US HIS WORLD washingtonpost.com
- What Writers Can Learn From 'Goodnight Moon' opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
- HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT IN 4 EASY STEPS aaronbleyaert.tumblr.com
<blockquote>I basically now have both the simplest and most sophisticated multi-language ebook production and distribution setup on the planet.</blockquote>
Beautiful, if you like this sort of thing.
- Marginalia | Parallel Transport kartikprabhu.com
<blockquote>I write margin notes while reading books. They help me keep my thoughts on record and within context. But how do I do that on a website or an ebook?</blockquote>
- SublimeWritingStyle github.com
Highlight "weasel words" and passive voice as you write in Sublime Text.
- Draft. Write Better. draftin.com
<blockquote>Easy version control and collaboration to improve your writing.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Write better with a simple markdown editor, version control and easy collaboration tools.</blockquote>
- Thoreau 2.0 - XOXO Conference Talk static.pinboard.in
<blockquote>I've come to believe that it's time for us to take a stand, and refuse to cooperate with this apparatus of secrecy. We've already seen Lavabit, in an act of great moral courage, throw away ten years of hard work rather than acquiesce to blanket monitoring of its users. But the fact that Ladar Levinson wasn't even able to give the reasons for shutting his project down, that we had to infer them from his silence, demonstrates the problem.</blockquote>
- Neil Gaiman’s Advice to Aspiring Writers brainpickings.org
- Lacuna Books lacunabooks.com
Lacuna Books is an application designed specially for writing books, research papers, and technical writings. It helps you manage content more effectively and produces beautiful digital books.
- Publish What You Learn | Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
The collaboration on apps like GitHub should be exactly what happens on blog posts. The readers posting comments should read the entire article, and should offer constructive, polite criticism and suggestions, without any unnecessary negativity.
- inessential.com: Pub Rules inessential.com
I’d love to run, edit, and write for a publication bigger than just me and my blog. I don’t have time, so I won’t, at least not any time soon. But if I were to run a publication, I’d have a few rules.
- SUPERINTEND superintend.typepad.com
- schacon/git-scribe - GitHub github.com
basically the best way to write an ebook
- Commonplace book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
Such books were essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces were used by readers, writers, students, and humanists as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they had learned. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests.
- Code Quarterly codequarterly.com
We believe there’s a niche waiting to be filled by someone publishing well-written technical pieces longer than the average blog article but shorter than books and making them available in a variety of formats. We are aiming at depth more than absolute timeliness; there are already plenty of outlets for the latest tech buzz.
- Home | Yahoo! Style Guide styleguide.yahoo.com
- maetl . code is not inevitable maetl.net
"The distinction between good code and crap code is essentially literary. Good code emerges from an intuitive ability to separate structure from intention – to compose minimalist flows of well formed cues that balance direct statements of logic with modular flexibility. Holistic, pattern based thinking is important, treating the locality of a single statement in the context of its position in a larger system, and also understanding that this position is fluid, and may change as the system changes and grows." This is great.
- Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store (robinsloan.com) robinsloan.com
Finally had a chance to read this. Very good; an Instapaper classic.