deanebarker

I've only ever used a free version? I've never paid for it. I think it's free for personal projects? Or at least it was...

Edit: I see it's $495 now. I don't think it was priced when I used it, but it's been 4-5 years.

This is what I have done for a couple of books I wrote in Markdown (https://deanebarker.net/books/).

Convert to HTML, then use Prince (https://www.princexml.com/) to style and convert to PDF.

This is really lovely. It makes me happy that you invested time into building this for other people.

+1 for "How Big Things Get Done." Great book.

"Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea" is the story of a shipwreck discovery that has always enthralled me. I've read it three times, and I'm so inspired about all the challenges they solved along the way.

(Note: the hero of the story went a little crazy in recent years. Hid from the law for a long time, and I think he just died... but still, the book itself is amazing.)

I don't disagree. I think I make that point throughout the site. I don't like the identity of it.

So... it's a static site generator? I've looked through the site, but I'm having trouble putting it in context. Sounds like it takes data and turns it into a static website. Is that right?

10,000 words about the idea of "thought leadership" and what that might mean.

Call me an idiot, but nowhere on the home page does it say it's for JavaScript. The code samples looked like JS, but I don't know every language, so I wasn't sure. It's not until I got into the docs and saw "npm" was a sure we were talking about JS...

Incidentally, "Domain Driven Design" was written around a theoretical logistics/shipping platform. That book didn't make it seem "non-glamorous." Everything is exciting to someone.

I use this constantly. Every single day. I have hundreds of scripts that run in it. It's just wildly valuable and useful.

This is correct. It's a wrapper around web components, kind of like Lit (which they credit in the acknowledgements).

Web components are cool, but the spec is bare. This means, a lot of rote work gets custom implemented. There are a lot of frameworks popping up, trying to "standardize" this.

Hyphen appears to one of these.

> I especially despised the end a line with two or more invisible characters to insert a line break.

I love Markdown, but I also hate this. The only benefit is that is discourages people from messing with line breaks.

>A single canonical reference

https://commonmark.org/

It went to read-only status before going down, so I assume it's a planned maintenance event.

Before I read your book, I thought, "I know all about search!"

After I read it...

"...I knew NOTHING about search."

No book has ever knocked me off my pedestal so brutally and so thoroughly.

Agreed. I use both apps simultaneously (I have them both open right now).

Admittedly, Teams uses a lot more RAM, but I have a lot of RAM. I would never know this unless I checked it.

Seconded. Great, great book.

>Now there's an opportunity for a startup. Make the process paperless.

There's some precedent: the enterprise content management company Documentum was started as "DocPharma" -- a software system specifically design to shepherd the documentation required to get drugs approved by the FDA. After they saturated that market, they generalized it beyond the original purpose.

Question: at what point does "specializing" in one or the other make you not a "full stack" developer anymore?

I can technically do about everything on the web, I'm just really bad at front-end, and really good at back-end, which is where I do most of my work. Am I "full stack"?

How good to you have to be in...well, everything, to call yourself "full stack"?

No, it's been around for about a week now.

I'm not a prepper, but I have some supplies. I think it's pretty responsible to have a 30-day supply of water and preservable food in the house.

Rice, beans, water, propane stove. Nothing major, but I could shelter in place for a month or so, if I had to.

I wish I had avoided debt better. In my 30s, I had enough money and credit to do stupid things, and I was still pretty materialistic, so everything looked good.

My 40s were sobering.

Got debt-free by about 48.

Now 50.

I thought the same thing. I'm not sure if NW is entirely unbiased anymore.

Learn how to cook from simple ingredients. I probably cut my food spending by 65% by learning how to make some simple things.

This is exactly what I was thinking. I read that page, and at the end, I thought "...so HTML then?"

I saw an intranet once that took this to the extreme. If a page went 30 days past expiration, it would only show a preview, then say something like:

"Only Bob Jones knows the rest of this story. Call him at x1234 to ask him about it."

Yeah, I think you want a dedicated RSS client.

>Well, LastPass is zero-knowledge

How about 1Password?