I like to write prose and code and talk to people, and below you can find some of the results of those things.
Community Things
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Two Page Tuesday, "Six(ish) readers reading two pages of new work followed by social hour(s)," in other words: a really fucking good time. Usually the first or second Tuesday of the month in either Dorchester (odd-months) or Cambridge (even-months).
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Response, a literary journal I used to put together that I’m going to keep here (a) for visibility and (b) because I’d like to do something again with it… eventually.
Literary Things
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"A Story as You Like It" by Raymond Queneau, Transposed to the Web (currently offline, but you can see the source here and here)
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"All This Will Someday Be Yours", Multitudes, Series 4, with Jules Lattimer
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"Jonathan Gold Sees a Sign That Reads, 'Is There an End to Suffering?'" Levee Magazine, Issue 04
Interview Things
Software and Coding Things
For the most up-to-date things, see the pins and repos over on GitHub. But some things I’m currently excited about:
- asciidocr
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A still in-progress, but more or less functional asciidoc parser and converter. It’s been fun to work on and I’m excited it’s more or less at the point where I can start "dog fooding" it (i.e., using it myself). Writing it felt very "computer science," which, as someone with a pretty heavy humanities background (especially recently), was a fun experience.
- Bart
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I’ve had the idea for a terminal-based "writing app" and have finally gotten around to actually starting to build it (okay, this is technically the second attempt; the first one lives in a private repo that shall likely never be shared).
- Htmlbook to Docx
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So I wrote this novel manuscript in asciidoc that had a lot of (I think necessary) formatting things to do with it, but since there isn’t really a native asciidoc → MS Word workflow (and, as MS Word seems to be what agents and publishers want, which is weird, because the markup is so much more flexible…) I wrote my own, sort of, using the HTMLBook standard, since it’s much easier to parse. Currently working on a Rust rewrite as a part of
asciidocr. - Lightweight Markup to PDF Builder (
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This is a tool I built for myself but I think might be useful to others some day. You can install it from PyPI (
pip install lwm2pdf).