It feels strange to write about such seemingly trivial matters at a time when horrific strife around the globe is being live-streamed to us all day. But writing itself is an escape.
I cannot remember when I first encountered the concept of a now page, but it appealed to me almost immediately. And yet, it took me years to finally set one up.
I have wanted to write for quite some time. There have been many ups and downs in life over the last couple of years or so that I feel I should document in some form.
If you are familiar with R Notebooks, you will know that the HTML output is re-generated every time you save the .Rmd file. I tried looking for a similar solution for non-notebook .
As a professional science writer, I don’t get to play around with code very much at $DAYJOB. But, for a while now, I have been writing nearly all of my articles in Markdown using pandoc to produce PDF, HTML and <sigh> DOCX files as outputs.