Don't Reinvent the Wheel
In a post last week I talked about roads and stagecoaches, and how work on scholarly infrastructure can often be...
Martin Fenner
Build Roads not Stagecoaches
I attended the Open Knowledge Festival this week and I had a blast. For three days (I also attended the...
Literate Blogging
Literate programming is a methodology that combines a programming language with a documentation language, thereby making programs more robust, more portable, more easily maintained, and arguably more fun to write than programs that are written only...
Continuous Publishing
Earlier this week Björn Brembs wrote in a blog post (What Is The Difference Between Text, Data And Code?): To...
Are static Websites the Future or the Past?
Last week I had a little discussion on Twitter about a great blog post by Zach Holman: Only 90s Web...
Six Misunderstandings about Scholarly Markdown
In this post I want to talk about some of the misunderstandings I frequently encounter when discussing markdown as a format for authoring scholarly documents. Scholars will always use Microsoft Word Microsoft Word is of course...