Software

Selected Rants, Raves, and Writings by Dylan Kinnett

2015-10-14 When ‘It Just Works’ Doesn’t Work: Downloads, updates, logins, alerts, updates, logins, downloads… when do we ever get to just do what we came to do?
2014-07-22 Authenticity Versus Expectation: There are probably some of you who would say that “clichés are clichés for a reason”, and to you I would say “cry me a river!” and I would add that the clichés may be useful, or comfortable, but cliché has no place in poetry, because it isn’t artful.
2014-05-19 Git and the Writer: Image the power of your editors and beta readers to commit changes for your review through a freely distributed application where each participant can enact changes without the knowledge of others doing the same.
2013-09-11 Leaving Microsoft Word Behind: I have amassed a collection of files: .doc files, .docx files, .rtf files, .html files, but I set out to convert them all to plain text files.
2013-08-06 Scrivener, Git and Version Control for Writers: Scrivener projects are laid out as application bundles with the .scriv extension, and, as it turns out, are amenable to Git version control.
2013-08-02 Useful Features of Version Control Software: Version control for writers, and why it’s useful.
2013-07-30 Version Control for Writers: Authors, editors, literary scholars, archivists: all eventually have to do work with multiple versions of a text.
2012-10-30 Generative Writing Cut-Up Tools: DadaDodo is a program that analyses texts for word probabilities, and then generates random sentences based on that. Sometimes these sentences are nonsense; but sometimes they cut right through to the heart of the matter, and reveal hidden meanings.
2012-07-15 How I Do My Word Processing: I am both a “computer person” and a writer. You might be interested to know: how do I combine the two? Here are some thoughts on how I do my word processing, most of the time.
2011-05-21 Scriptwriting Software: I sampled the various software apps that are designed to help a writer to produce a stage play