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reading Finnegans Wake

It's the sort of book you might have on your shelf for thirty years but never read it through. A book you look at sometimes when reflecting on what it might be to be a great writer. It becomes a kind of touchstone for you. You're

the machine to live

HERE IS a version of a famous aphorism that will be forever associated with Le Corbusier: the house is a machine in which to live. He spoke it in the nineteen twenties, a time of the socialist experiment, the great aftershock, the explosion of the avant-garde, and later he died,

Why pagination matters

Pretty much all word processors in the market present content using a scrolling interface. This is a major difference between writing apps and reading apps. E-readers page their content, writing apps scroll their content. With no exceptions that I am aware of, true pagination is not offered to authors by

Markdown is terrible.

But what else is there? As Joe Armstrong (co-creator of Erlang) put it: "So if I hate markdown what do I like? Pencil and paper is best. Boots instantly." Then he goes on to give his preferred method: "For high quality text, I choose XML markup with