Five years, five updates. Sounds about right.

A few quick updates, in the interest in posting more than once a year:

  • I’ve been managing other writers for almost four years now, so I should probably change my byline to reflect that. I’m still writing and working on tool/architecture stuff. But at some point, I should write down some snappy articles with management tips and tricks. Maybe some stuff on synergy and paradigm shifts.
  • My byline also mentioned being a FrameMaker nerd. I’ve barely used FrameMaker in the last five years, except to get stuff out of it. Aside from a few things still lingering in *.fm files, most of my company uses DITA, and some of use Markdown and Jekyll. But the eventual plan is to move everything to MadCap Flare. So maybe I’ll write about that more later. For now, strike FrameMaker from the byline.
  • I’ve been doing some programming lately, mostly in the quest to get a bunch of DITA converted over to Flare. Whenever I’ve run into a conversion or production program that required custom code, I’ve always said “I’m not a programmer” and then spent months trying to get developer time to fix it. I think it’s time I change that to “I’m not a very good programmer” and work on improving that. As of late, that’s involved a lot of Python, so you may see some posts on that.

Of course, I’m saying all of this, and I may not post again until 2024 because I’m so busy. But, stay tuned.