chrisanthropic

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by chrisanthropic 4y ago
In the past I found it useful to design and layout a pen-and-paper role playing game book and export it as a print-ready PDF i could send to the printer(s). Specifically, it has CMYK support, allowed me to layout images and text side-by-sid
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by chrisanthropic 6y ago
For those interested in these things, here's a music/synesthesia study that I stumbled across last week that sounds pretty cool. https://researchprofiles.herts.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/... >
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by chrisanthropic 6y ago
I've been a fan of the correspondent since they launched: https://thecorrespondent.com/principles Pay what you want, ad-free, paid reporters and staff, and focused on solutions versus sensationalism.
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by chrisanthropic 7y ago
I really enjoyed the graphic novel "Economix: How our economy works (and doesn't work)" by Goodwin & Burr. I found it informative, clear, concise, and funny at times, all uncommon for educational economic text in my exper
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by chrisanthropic 7y ago
In no particular order, here's the ones I've been following: - https://postmarketos.org/ - https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ - https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/ I&#x2
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by chrisanthropic 7y ago
Collective bargaining at it's finest.
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by chrisanthropic 7y ago
I haven't touched the code in a couple of years, but I wrote something combining Jekyll, Pandoc, and custom LaTeX templates for publishing my wife's novels (ebook and print). Someone found it and posted about it here in 2017: htt
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by chrisanthropic 7y ago
While I basically agree, one of the arguments in the episode (as I remember it, it's been a while) is that since we ship it away, we don't see the negative results of our lifestyle choices, making the problems created easier to ig
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by chrisanthropic 7y ago
The first time I really started thinking about this was years ago after watching the recycling episode of "Penn & Teller: Bullshit" where they essentially warn that many recycling programs consist of shipping our waste elsewhe
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by chrisanthropic 8y ago
I'll mention clubhouse.io every chance I get. It's billed as a Project Management software (and it's great at that) but it can be great for documentation because it: - provides hierarchical nesting (Milestones / Epics &#
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by chrisanthropic 9y ago
Automating more Terraform stuff. First, a script that calculates what percentage of your AWS resources (15 different resources for now) are managed by the Terraform code in a given directory, and then creates GitHub style badges for each.
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by chrisanthropic 9y ago
The best Jenkins advice I ever received was from here: https://medium.com/mindera/jenkins-a-la-travis-6c5a8debbb5b On setting up Jenkins Job Builder using a 'seed job'. This setup allows you to add a .jenkins
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by chrisanthropic 9y ago
project management (personal projects, long-term house chores, etc): - https://clubhouse.io/ notes: - https://boostnote.io/ backups: - rclone + google drive
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by chrisanthropic 9y ago
It's completely up to the publisher (or author if self-published) to enable DRM or not via a checkbox in the UI when publishing on Amazon. We've been releasing ours with the same CC license as Cory Doctorow, but honestly very few
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by chrisanthropic 9y ago
Unlike most LaTeX templates I've seen this project was written with a focus on fiction so I didn't touch anything around code blocks. I'd love to add some more templates and a structure to make them easy to switch between eve
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by chrisanthropic 9y ago
That's to do with Github not displaying PDFs very well, but if you download it you can view it fine. Also, that PDF is the Adobe Pre-Flight verification of the 5x8 template. The sample book can be created by cloning the repo and runnin
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by chrisanthropic 9y ago
done, MIT license added.
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by chrisanthropic 9y ago
The repo _does_ include a sample book, but you're right, some screenshots would be nice. I actually created the tool to handle all of my wife's books but I avoided linking to them from the project because I don't want it to l
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by chrisanthropic 9y ago
Thanks for sharing, I'd somehow never heard of softcover before - it looks really nice! (Not the OP, but Open-Publisher is my project).
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by chrisanthropic 9y ago
I wrote a free tool a bit ago that wraps Pandoc/LaTeX/Jekyll and takes Markdown inputs and exports epub, mobi, and print-ready PDFs (5x8 & 6x9 Pdfx-1a compliant), specifically for fiction. You can check out the LaTeX template
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by chrisanthropic 9y ago
Wave accounting / https://waveapps.com
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by chrisanthropic 10y ago
I really enjoyed _A Burglar's Guide to the City_ - https://www.amazon.com/Burglars-Guide-City-Geoff-Manaugh-ebo... The premise of the book is a study of high-profile heists and how the crimes themselves were heavily in
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by chrisanthropic 10y ago
This.
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by chrisanthropic 10y ago
Like I said further down, give mailtrain.org a look. It's self hosted and you can use multiple SMTP providers.
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by chrisanthropic 10y ago
I looked into Sendy for quite a while but I like EmailOctopus' tech stack (and dev speed) better. My personal opinion only of course.
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by chrisanthropic 10y ago
No problem. Honestly, the only reason I didn't go with that is because I work with AWS and wanted to see how they're setting up a 'serverless' newsletter via SES.
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by chrisanthropic 10y ago
I've spent the last few months researching this and the only one I've found that offers that is https://mailtrain.org/ It's self-hosted and from their FAQ: "Amazon SES, SparkPost, SendGrid, Mailgun – you
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by chrisanthropic 10y ago
Great info, thanks, setting up my account now and then I'll update the article. EDIT The article has been updated to include this.
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by chrisanthropic 10y ago
And just in case anyone is feeling frisky all of the sensitive info in the screenshots was removed and replaced.
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Sending mail with AWS SES and Route53(chrisanthropic.com)
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