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student post feed the hard way

Posted on February 2, 2013 by ctb — 2 Comments

I decided for the Spring semester to write my course site using Flask, a python micro web framework. By saying it is a micro framework, I’m saying it doesn’t do near as much for you as Ruby on Rails and…

using markdown for all your writing

Posted on December 23, 2011 by ctb — 2 Comments

I’m a big fan of markdown (md), and especially of Fletcher Penney’s branch multimarkdown (mmd). John Gruber invented the project to make it easier to write pieces destined for HTML, such as blog entries. md and its variants essentially provide…

dterm- the popup cli

Posted on May 26, 2011 by ctb — 1 Comment

Yesterday I posted my new workflow for writing with markdown for this blog. Today I’m adding a very nifty tool to that workflow, which enables me to post a finished draft directly from any text editor. Dterm is a cool,…