I have decided to change the way my home site works. Up until now I
have been writing entries by creating a quasi-XML file containing the
HTML text; I am changing the format to be quasi-RFC-822: a text file
with a short header section at the top. The text is translated to
HTML via the usual hacked-together nest of regexps.
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I have written a short note about using make and sed with Markdown
to maintain a collection of HTML documents. Programmers are forever writing
documentation (proposals, specifications, technical notes, and so on),
and the latest stage in my quest to make writing prose as frictionless
as possible
I have started using Markdown to do this.
Before that I wrote in HTML with some XML mixed in to better handle
sectioning; before that I used Microsoft Word.
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Yes, I have redesigned my archive pages—that is, the ones where all the entries apart from the most recent live, and the index pages for navigating between them. To see the new look you can visit the archive page for this entry. Read more