As noted in Finished Moving: Lessons Learned link rot is real.
Links vanish.
I've got 23 ancient (2004 to 2006, ancient) posts with clearly broken links. These are easy to identify because the service vanished years ago.
The tricky part is figuring out of there's any content worth preserving. In …
more ...Moved everything from blogger.com to "here" (https://slott56.github.io).
What did I learn?
Back in the early '00's (up to …
I've been an on-and-off user of LaTeX since the very, very beginning. Back in the dark days when the one laser printer that could render the images was in a closely-guarded secret location to prevent everyone from using it and exhausting the (expensive) toner cartridges.
A consequence of this is …
more ...I'm a big fan of plain-text tools. Source Code. ReStructuredText. LaTeX.
I'm not a big fan of proprietary file formats and document formats that are difficult or impossible to decode. JSON and XML rock. .XLS files are painful and difficult to work with.
UML Diagrams are a particularly odious problem …
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