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Peter Conrad

Peter Conrad

Lightweight Markup: AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, and Markdown Compared

A lightweight markup language is a form of markup — text whose formatting appears as inline annotations — designed to be lightweight. While…

Dec 1, 2022

An antique typewriter

Dec 1, 2022

Peter Conrad

The Affair

I was just hanging up the phone when she walked in. I’d been talking to my tail-light guy. Someone had smashed my tail light.

Nov 27, 2022

A picture of a classic film noir detective’s office, but the detective is a dog and there’s a shadow of a cat-like woman on the frosted glass of the door.

Nov 27, 2022

Peter Conrad

The Lazy Way to Update Static HTML

So you have a website. How charmingly antique. I have one too! And you’re using static HTML instead of a CSS—good for you! Much harder to…

Nov 16, 2022

The Lazy Way to Update Static HTML

Nov 16, 2022

Peter Conrad

I Tried Going Linux-Only—Here’s How It Went

I’m pretty comfortable with macOS, Windows, and Linux, switching between them as needed. I mostly use macOS at work, and my personal laptop…

Apr 7, 2022

I Tried Going Linux-Only—Here’s How It Went

Apr 7, 2022

Peter Conrad

3 Pigments You Shouldn’t Use (and One You Should)

If you’ve taken up watercolors, you’re surely familiar with the popular colors of today: the Cadmium Reds and Yellows; Hooker Green, Sap…

Mar 25, 2022

3 Pigments You Shouldn’t Use (and One You Should)

Mar 25, 2022

Peter Conrad

How I Fulfill Your Order

Here at Attempted Not Known, we pride ourselves on personally crafting quality comic/objects. But what actually happens when your order…

Mar 23, 2022

How I Fulfill Your Order

Mar 23, 2022

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Keep Your Notes in Git the Easy Way

If you take a lot of notes, you probably already have a system. Maybe you use Notion or Confluence; maybe you’re bullet journaling; maybe…

Mar 21, 2022

Keep Your Notes in Git the Easy Way

Mar 21, 2022

Peter Conrad

Bringing an Antique Watercolor Kit Back to Life

My dad gave me a bunch of his old art stuff. One item was this antique Winsor and Newton watercolor box, probably from the 1960s. I’ve been…

Mar 19, 2022

Bringing an Antique Watercolor Kit Back to Life

Mar 19, 2022

Peter Conrad

I Played Fortnite Nonviolently—Here’s How It Went

I’ve been playing Fortnite Battle Royale. It’s a video game in which 100 players run around an island shooting each other until only one…

Feb 26, 2022

I Played Fortnite Nonviolently—Here’s How It Went

Feb 26, 2022

Peter Conrad

Markdown Showdown: Two Great Note-Taking Tools

If you aren’t using Markdown to take notes, you’re missing out. Because Markdown uses text symbols to indicate formatting, you don’t have…

Feb 24, 2022

Markdown Showdown: Two Great Note-Taking Tools

Feb 24, 2022

Peter Conrad

Peter Conrad

Peter Conrad is a writer and artist with a penchant for grammar and a knack for the technical. See his latest at patreon.com/stymied or vidriocafe.com

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