Links

by Brett Coulstock. March, 2024.

Writing

• Watchmen, COPRA and the Originality Found in Remixing Comics
• The One Hundred Million Dollar Mistake by Terry Rossio.
• Building the Bomb by Terry Rossio.
• FADE IN: From Idea to Final Draft; The Writing of Star Trek: Insurrection (PDF)
• How to write a novel in 2 months by Jeff Vandermeer
• How to write a novel in 30 days by Catherynne M. Valente

Career, Productivity

• Use Your Potions and Scrolls by Jerry Liu.
• Things You're Allowed to Do
• Get your work recognized: write a brag document
• Brag now, remember later: Document your accomplishments
• Your First Business Should Be A Spreadsheet
• Why every academic should have a personal website by Bastian Rieck.
• Learning to Finish Things by “Boris”.

Programming / IT

• Making a Text Adventure Game with the cmd and textwrap Python Modules
• Bob Nystrom - Is There More to Game Architecture than ECS?
• The Grug Brained Developer
• Pennmush Tutorial (PDF File)

Music / Videos

• Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts (youtube)
• Mandy Patinkin - From the Air (Official Video) (youtube)

Markup, Technical Writing, Document Formats

• Australian Government Style Manual
• Semantic Linefeeds.
• Notes on Paper by Voussoir.Net (2023).
• XML Is The Future (Hype Cycles)
• Writing my PhD using groff

HTML

• The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML.
• Writing HTML in HTML by John Ankarström.
• Write HTML Right by Aaron D. Parks.
• Come full circle - back to HTML.
• Word Processing Blues by Tim Bray (2005).
• Custom HTML Tags (18 Things To Know Before Using Them) by Matthew James Taylor.

Humour and Comics

• How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell (The Oatmeal)
• What it's like to make things for the web (The Oatmeal)
• Sorry! And the Nature of Suffering (Existential Comics)
• Socrates Through Time (Existential Comics)
• RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags (Stack Overflow)

Art and Design

• The Art and History of Lettering Comics by Todd Klein.
• The Last Viridian Note by Bruce Sterling.