Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Death to typewriters

... some of the technical (CSS, JavaScript, Closure) details in Medium’s typography and typesetting. Note: we use LESS, so you will see some light LESS features (mostly variables).

Storytelling is a buzzword with lots of different interp... the internet is killing stories, or it’s the best thin... them since the printing press.


Stories have been around as long as we have, helping us ...

LibreShot.com (former freepix.eu) is a project that cont... photos for private and commercial use. All photos and th... made by me and you can use my photos without attribution... really appreciate a link to Libreshot 🙂

KISSING-CRUST (n.)
As loaves of bread expand in the oven as they're cooked, ...
LONGINQUITY (n.)
Derived from the Latin word for distance, longinquity is ...

Are some fonts more believable than others? A curious ex... documentary filmmaker Errol Morris suggests as much. Aft... approximately 45,000 unsuspecting readers on nytimes.com... that subjects were more likely to believe a statement wh... in Baskervi

Discourse - Connecting Ideas in Writing
The Kibbitzer pages below focus on students' problems wi ...

Are there certain typefaces that compel a belief that th... are written in are true?

How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn ...
in Books, Writing | July 1st, 2014 Leave a Comment
JK-Rowlings-Phoenix-Plot-Outline
At the height of the Harry Potter novels’ popularity, ...

Check which famous writer you write like with this stati... tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style ... with those of the famous writers.
Any text in English will do: your latest blog post, jour ...

When writing the abstracts for journal articles, most sc... similar advice: keep it short, dry, and simple. But a ne... 1 million abstracts finds that many of these tips backfi... abstracts cited less than their long, flowery, and jargo...

What really matters is:–
1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite cl ...
2. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vagu ...
3. Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. ...
... t when you want to talk about something r

While many people can write functional code (pretty, ugl... wasteful), very few can write quality prose – prose th... understood the same way by different people, while at th... possess the typical properties desired in prose (eleganc... cultural se

The "Rare Book Room" site has been constructed as an edu ...
Over the last decade, a company called "Octavo" digitall ...
This site contains all of the books (about 400) that hav ...