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Great advice here! I especially like the idea of 50 minute meetings. I’ve been lightly enforcing a rule of my own too: “no agenda, no attenda”

Ironically the article is barely readable on an iPhone…

On the topic of copy editing you raise: I wrote a book in DocBook for Manning in 2010. DocBook is XML, so I structured it with opening / end tags on their own line, content in the …

I wonder if Fitzgibbon fits this pattern? Fitz being “the bastard son of…” and Gibbon, like ape? Or perhaps Gibbon has another meaning?

The "Writing" section here has huge "draw the rest of the owl" vibes. (I say this as an accomplished author of 10 tech books.) Yes, it's worth optimising for your productivity. It'…

This is weasel wording but with actions. I’d expect better from Apple

I have written a few tech books: https://ryanbigg.com/books Off these, I’ve made $65,000USD. That’s over 13 years. None of these books have sold anywhere near as close to the Unico…

What an excellent resource! (And yes Outlook is a pain and supports so very little!) We've tried building email templates for notifications for our apps where I work, and it has ty…

I sometimes use it for moving code blocks around, especially between files or from scratch pad to a file.

Ah took a moment to load the second time round but it got there. Regular iPhone user here, but based down under.

Your personal site is so minimal, that it doesn’t even load on my phone. Is the URL right? (Also, that would be a good domain name for myself ;)

It feels like there’s 20 years of history missing between 2000 and 2019. What cool stories are hidden in those two decades? :)

This is pretty incredible work! (Action web service was an attempt to make Rails generate SOAP APIs as that was the style du jour at the time. Fortunately, JSON came along!)

Absolutely! When I wrote for Manning, a print book that sold for $45 netted me a huge $4.50 — 90/10 split. Ebooks were 50/50. Guess the print guys all gotta take their cut.

Been writing tech books now for over a decade, got about 8-10 under the belt depending on if you count 2nd and 3rd editions as new books. Definitely not writing them for the money …

I’ve done some work on something “less serious” in Ruby: https://github.com/radar/mtg I view it as a wide project full of little interlinked code katas. I’ve thought about the card…