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Writer and education-technology critic; publishes Hack Education and wrote Teaching Machines.
10 things
BywordSoftware
For writing articles for my website, I compose in Byword, which is a Markdown text editor. (I like it because it syncs between my Apple devices.
Her Uses This interview, on the writing and publishing tools behind Hack Education.
2019-10-15·usesthis.com ↗
JekyllSoftware
I've run all my sites on Jekyll and GitHub Pages for a while now. I have found it easier to manage than WordPress (particularly as I know next to nothing about databases),
Her Uses This interview, on the writing and publishing tools behind Hack Education.
2019-10-15·usesthis.com ↗
ScrivenerSoftware Literature & Latte
For my book, I've used Scrivener to store all my research notes. I don't actually write in Scrivener; but it's been really useful to help me organize this big writing project.
Her Uses This interview, on the writing and publishing tools behind Hack Education.
2019-10-15·usesthis.com ↗
Pilot Gel Ink Retractive Roller BallOther Pilot
I used to have a special fountain pen, but printer cartridges and fountain pen cartridges are annoying and expensive, and so these days I stick with the ol' Pilot Gel Ink Retractive Roller Ball pen. Blue ink. It's got to be blue ink.
Her Uses This interview, on the writing and publishing tools behind Hack Education.
2019-10-15·usesthis.com ↗
Sublime TextSoftware Sublime HQ
I export HTML from Byword into Sublime Text. My website runs on Jekyll and I use the GitHub desktop tool to commit files to my site.
Her Uses This interview, on the writing and publishing tools behind Hack Education.
2019-10-15·usesthis.com ↗
DuckDuckGoService
DuckDuckGo is my default search engine. Firefox is my default browser.
Her Uses This interview, on the writing and publishing tools behind Hack Education.
2019-10-15·usesthis.com ↗
FirefoxSoftware Mozilla
DuckDuckGo is my default search engine. Firefox is my default browser.
Her Uses This interview, on the writing and publishing tools behind Hack Education.
2019-10-15·usesthis.com ↗
MacBook AirHardware Apple
I use a MacBook Air that's four or five years old. (My god, I hope it never breaks because the new MacBooks suck.)
Her Uses This interview, on the writing and publishing tools behind Hack Education.
2019-10-15·usesthis.com ↗
HP OfficeJetHardware HP
I prefer to edit my writing on paper than on a screen, so I do print out longer essays and chapters and make changes by hand. I have an HP OfficeJet printer.
Her Uses This interview, on the writing and publishing tools behind Hack Education.
2019-10-15·usesthis.com ↗
Microsoft WordSoftware Microsoft
When I'm writing articles etc that need to be shared with an editor, I typically write in Microsoft Word. I hate all word processing software, and anyone who insists that Google Docs is so much better than Word is a liar.
Her Uses This interview, on the writing and publishing tools behind Hack Education.
2019-10-15·usesthis.com ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.