I almost made a terrible blunder.

See https://github.com/slott56/py-web-tool for some background. This is a "Literate Programming" tool. I started fooling around with this kind of thing back in '05 (maybe even earlier.) This is not the blunder. The whole idea of literate programming is not very …

Read this: http://thesweetsetup.com/apps/our-favorite-pro-writing-app-for-mac/

What I have been doing instead of using these sophisticated, integrated writing tools?

I use OmniOutliner. https://www.omnigroup.com/omnioutliner I've used it for years. It does a lot of things. Most notably, I can create multiple columns so that I can …

I'm looking at code (as a man does) and I can't remember if there's a class that does X. There's a lot of code. I wrote almost all of it. And -- maybe it's the gin -- but I just can't recall if there's an X. It seems like there should be …

In looking at Application Lifecycle Management (see "ALM Tools"), I had found that SCons appears to be pretty popular. It's not as famous as all the make variants, or Apache Ant or Apache Maven, but it seems to have a niche in the forest of Build Automation Software.

While it …

For years, I've written documentation using ReStructured Text (RST). It's just one of several "lightweight markup languages ". For others, look at Markdown , StructuredText , Setext , among many others.

I generally use the rst2html utility that comes with Docutils . It works fine for small things.

I just read about the Sphinx documentation …