Embedding ain't easy, but its alright

I write a lot of blog posts which contain code snippets. Like most people, I have done this using a fenced codeblock in markdown which is fine for short blocks of code. The problem occours when I am embedding code from another repository; often there will be tweaks or bug fixes, and keeping the code in the blog post in sync with the code in the other repo is annoying and manual....

September 14, 2022 · 3 min

Writing Conference Talks

I saw an interesting question on twitter today: Hey, people who talk at things: How long does it take you to put a new talk together? I need like 50 hours over at least a couple of months to make something I don’t hate. I’m trying to get that down (maybe by not doing pictures?) but wondering what’s normal for everyone else. Source I don’t know how long it takes me to write a talk - as it is usually spread over many weeks/months, worked on as and when I have inspiration....

May 15, 2018 · 3 min