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Whatever happened to Reverse Polish Notation (RPN)? Progress! That’s what!

Here’s a little challenge for the software developers.

People who aren’t from Australia will be unfamiliar with the place of the Kangaroo in a great Australian ritual. This is an attempt to explain a small piece of the Australian culture.

I have been noticing an odd phenomenon when I am in the zone…

War-story about a word processor

In this article, I describe three separate issues with the handling of Sections and Headings in modern typesetting tools. I propose a dull but important change to markup languages to deal with these issues. This proposal is not particularly innovative, but just better engineered. Then I mention a new problem that I only just noticed, and propose an innovative new feature that would be way cool.

I find it quite amusing when we find that we have internalised such obscure rules without ever realising that they existed.

With Brainsnorkel experimenting with Writely, I thought it was about time that I evaluated Ecto as I promised a month ago. I am going to talk almost exclusively about the user-experience rather than the features of the tool. Why? Because that’s the reason I am giving it the thumbs-down after only the briefest trials. It […]

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A magic trick for C programmers to try,