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Josh Beckman

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Hello, friends. I'm Josh Beckman. I make things - mostly software, mostly for others. This is where I keep years of writing, notes, and reading highlights, as a [knowledge garden](/about-this-site) built in the open. [I write](/blog) about s...

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Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)graces of the Parenthesis

by The Public Domain Review on publicdomainreview.orgArticle

Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham praised them as “figures of tolerable disorder” (if used not too often “nor too thick”). For Philip Sidney, they were simply indispensable. Florence Hazrat introduces us to the uncontested early modern king of brackets and to his romance…

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I have a lot of project stuff on my plate. My wife and I are writing a book. I’m rigging a dragon so…

on foldingfittedsheets.tumblr.comArticle

I have a lot of project stuff on my plate. My wife and I are writing a book. I’m rigging a dragon so I can add to my portfolio, I’m making Wizards and Wagons. But last night my brain was like: You should write that one rom com. I was like, “uh, aren’t we already a little tied up? Also we already…

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Amalgaverse Second Mission: The Delivery, Part 1.5 – Dunsel

by Joseph Mallozzi on josephmallozzi.comArticle

Over Robespierre’s protests, Jack orders everyone to fall back to the bay. You’re abandoning ship. Once there, you’re about to board the puddle jumper, when you hear something from out in the corridor. You throw a look to the open airlock. The ship’s battered utility robot peeks in, ducks out, then…

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Building a MyST authoring environment to identify things that MyST core could improve

on chrisholdgraf.comArticle

Something that has bugged me for a long time is that [MyST](https://mystmd.org) doesn't have a lot of support for *authors* to write MyST documents more effectively. MyST documents have a ton of rich metadata inside them, but it has mostly been used for making the *reader* experience more…

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