Welcome to my new blog! My first computer. A TRS-80 Color Computer. I still have it in my garage. Hi there! It’s been a while. I’m almost not even sure how to write these things any more, after doing it daily for like a decade or so, it seems weird starting again. But it’s time - it seems long-form writing is making a...
We need an HTML Document standard I’ve recently been messing with Markdown (to my utter chagrin) with the idea of using it to update my resume and blog. I was simply astounded by how much recreation of solved problems is going on in that space. I prefer JavaScript/Node so I’ve played with UnifiedJS (remark/rehype), MarkdownIt, MarkedJS, and...
The Hypertext HTML Document Editor Introducing the Hypertext HTML Document Editor World Wide Web: Phase 2 Hypertext is a new rich-text editor for creating documents using HTML instead of using an 18 year old text format or complex word processor files. It's an app created using web technologies for creating actual documents, not websites, web...
My simple blog generator: Hypertext Blogmaker So in addition to the Hypertext HTML Document editor PWA app I made, I also created a quick NodeJS static blog generator which works with the docs that Hypertext spits out. You can grab it from Github here. Here's a quick intro on how to use it, first grab it from the repo, either with git or...
Hypertext Demo Video I whipped up a quick introduction video which shows the features and functionality of the Hypertext Document Editor. As I said in the video, it's a basic run through - I'll create something fancier, as well as actual documentation - soon. If you have any questions/comments, let me know! -Russ
Why is Markdown so popular? Notable's Markdown Editor... The left is somehow better than the right. I truly loathe Markdown. Truly. But given the widespread use of Markdown, it might seem strange that I have such aversion to it. If you somehow really like it, or are so used to it by now, you might be tempted to think I'm the oddball....
About my father This is a long, personal story about how I discovered five years ago at age 45 that my dad wasn't my biological father, who he was, who I am and the effect it has had on my life and mental health. It helped a lot to write it, hopefully it might be of interest for someone to read it. My family and I By 2017, I had suspected...
The decades long quagmire of encapsulated HTML This is part of a series of posts I'm writing about creating an HTML Document format: We need an HTML Document standard The Hypertext HTML Document Editor My simple blog generator: Hypertext Blogmaker So my first thought when I started down the path of creating...
Twitter and the rebirth of the long form weblog Long form writing contained in blogs served as static web pages seems to be making a comeback. In addition to consumer sites like Substack, which are making it easy for people to build both a following and an income from their writing, the latest trend among techies is a simple...
H2G2 is still relevant The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy isn’t just a humorous sci-fi novel, it’s a roadmap to the future and has been my go-to book for 30+ years. The entire series is a gold mine of predictions, analysis, and commentary about every facet of society from tech to religion, quantum physics to philosophy, genetics,...
Information Ochlocracy DALL-E generated image of "information ochlocracy" I decided to play with ChatGPT: Write an essay of at least 500 words about "information ochlocracy". Information ochlocracy, also known as "information anarchy," is a term that refers to the overwhelming and often conflicting information that...
I'm selling my name... For Sale... rb.io So I've been out of work for a while, so to raise cash I've been selling all the extra stuff I have. It's amazing how much money one can spend on tech gadgets, only for the prices to drop to literally 10% of what you spent on them! I tell my son all the time that it would have been nice if I had...
My job search "Impressionist painting of someone looking for a job." So I've been ramping up my search for a job in what is without a doubt the worst tech job market in a decade. If you haven't seen https://layoffs.fyi it's pretty bad out there! I've been applying to Senior Technical Product Manager positions, but my experience with...
DevRel Portfolio Large screen kiosk screen from Nokia Research Center's 25th anniversary. Below are links to some of my work as a Technical Evangelist, Marketing Technologies Manager and blogger. Resume Online portfolio deck with images. Blog posts Work Articles by Russell Beattie on Amazon Developer...
How I saved Super Bowl 50 for Amazon CBS Sports Super Bowl 50 Streaming Ad Since today is the Super Bowl, I figured it would be a good moment to reminisce about something that happened a few years ago when I was working at Amazon. Part I: The oops It all started because someone at Amazon forgot to return an email. It was December...
LLMs and the Future of Human Computer Interaction Create a modernist image which expresses the idea of information mechanization. This is a pretty exciting moment in tech. Like clockwork, every decade or so since the broad adoption of electricity there’s been a new technical innovation that completely upends society once it becomes...
Quick thoughts on Mark Twain's Travelogues My favorite Twain quote... I've been inspired to jot this down because I've been reading Mark Twain's travelogues, which are truly a revelation to me. Yes, Twain is Twain, but having never read anything beyond Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn before, I really didn't have any idea of what an incredible...