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Originally Posted by jcsalomon
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Yes, that's the site. Good detective work.
I did PM HarryT with the URL soon after that post.
It's been almost a year since I purchased the domain, wanted to keep it under wraps until I finished the CSS + backend + everything else before "publicly announcing".
Planned on doing that within a month... then got carried away with big conversion jobs, new clients coming in, [...].
I definitely have to kick my butt into gear and whip the site into shape.
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Side Note: I've still been doing massive amounts of research (and the usual in-depth posts on MobileRead... I've done 300 more in the last year!).
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Some very interesting technical talks have happened within the last year:
ebookcraft 2019 +
their other talks:
- Building Ebooks that Last
- I've already referenced this in a few posts. One of the best talks I've seen discussing the long-term maintenance needed for ebooks + why readers return books (typos are >50%, followed by bad/broken code).
- Long story short: KISS.
- Pagination in the Browser
- Some of the current tools to split HTML into pages, and the newer CSS3 pagination stuff + the advantages/disadvantages to the different methods.
- Accessibility is always good talks to listen to.
LibreOffice had a conference in 2019. There was a bunch of good talks there.
- Online: Copy/Paste
- Discussed the horrifying nature of copying/pasting rich text between browsers/OSes, and the completely inconsistent usage of Javascript and everything else that causes hell.
- I assume a lot of this also hits Google Docs (and online Microsoft Office too), so you can see how incompatibilities sneak in when trading between them.
LibreOffice's QA Blog is always great to check on every month. They give a few more "human-readable" summaries discussing some of the bugfixes/upcoming changes.
One of the things I'm most excited to still research is my
Does Tool Exist to Spellcheck/Grammarcheck by Category? topic. It's still tough to get actual technical information on grammarchecking... there's just so much marketing fluff out there that drowns out any sort of
real information/comparisons on the topic.
Past month I've been cleaning up a Physics book in LaTeX for proper typesetting (and learned a hell of a lot in the process about Maths alignment, better ways to maintain code, cleaning up messes, etc.).
So yeah... plan on compiling a lot of the summaries and info and posting as blog posts.