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The home page of William Jeffrey Rankin: writer, software product designer, and information technologist.

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Thu Dec 5 2024: Running Hua as a Scheduled Task (or Cron Job) article added.
Sat Nov 23 2024: Added Hua Error Handling Enhancements article.
Thu Oct 31 2024: Added The Horror of Mistvale Hall ~ Colophon article.
Thu Oct 24 2024: Enabled commenting on /blog through Disqus.
Mon Oct 21 2024: Content updates to the My Books page.
Mon Oct 14 2024: Added article on Hua Pandoc integration.
Thu Sep 26 2024: Added article on Hua Article Mode.
Thu Sep 19 2024: Article on Hua Error Status Codes added.
Sat Aug 31 2024: Added Data File Generator for aa (astronomical almanac) blog entry.
Sat July 13 2024: Added Minimal Mutt Config Files article.
Thu July 4 2024: Article on Hua Paging Labels added.
Fri June 28 2024: Halloween countdown script added.
Sat June 1 2024: OpenDocument Standard Manuscript Format Template blog entry.
Sat Apr 6 2024: Added Hua Feature Completion blog entry.
Tue Mar 26 2024: New version of Hua released with paging support.
Fri Mar 15 2024: The Indiegogo campaign for my book, The Horror of Mistvale Hall, begins today!
Sun Feb 11 2024: New version of Hua released with support for per-article meta-information.
Thu Feb 1 2024: Added Generating Running Statistics blog entry.
Tue Dec 26 2023: Added Hua Enhancements blog entry.
Sun Nov 19 2023: Added Cygwin's Apache as a Service on Windows blog entry.
Fri Sep 22 2023: Hieroglyphics Highlights blog entry.
Wed May 17 2023: Added Installing svnserve on Cygwin blog entry.
Fri Dec 9 2022: Added The Story of the Old Stone Church (A Ghost Story for Christmas).
Sun Nov 27 2022: Windows Uptime Using Powershell blog article.
Sat Nov 12 2022: Old Farmer's Almanac Sun/Planetary Rise and Set Times blog article.
Thu Nov 10 2022: Integrating Hua's Markdown Support blog article.
Wed Nov 9 2022: Hua now supports Markdown using the MarkdownToHTML PowerShell module.
Mon Oct 31 2022: New version of Hua released. This version supports master tag lists.
Sat Sep 17 2022: New versions (Bash and PowerShell) of the NWS Radar Image Compositing script added.
Fri Aug 5 2022: PowerShell version of NWS Radar Image Compositing script added.
Wed July 13 2022: Planetary Rise and Set Time scripts updated with additional output formats.
Thu June 23 2022: Planetary Rise and Set Times Using aa
Thu June 16 2022: aa - Astronomical Almanac - Compiled for Cygwin
Wed June 8 2022: New version of NWS Radar Image Compositing script added.
Mon Nov 8 2021: October 2021 Stories list added.
Sun May 9 2021: Added my Commonplace Book to the My Books page.
Thu 14 Jan 2021: A new version of Hua (revision 15) released. It now outputs a single-page listing of all article titles with links.
Thu Dec 24 2020: Release of Carnacki's Christmas Conundrum, a Christmas-themed Carnacki story.
Sat Dec 12 2020: Transition from jeffrankin.net to wjrankin.com. Update your bookmarks!
Fri Mar 27 2020: Weather Tools (added PowerShell version of radar image compositing script)
Thu Aug 29 2019: Product Design & UX Cheat Sheets added.
Tue Aug 27 2019: Hua (PowerShell static content generator/blog engine) added.
Wed Jun 27 2018: Weather Tools (update to radar.sh script)
Sun May 27 2018: Thoughts on Star Trek
Sat May 19 2018: Self-referential design (aka why usability testing is important)
Mon May 7 2018: How do you know what to build? How do you know it's right?
Sun Mar 18 2018: Weather Tools added.
Fri Dec 1 2017: The LFS201 Course & LFCS Exam
Mon Jul 17 2017: Changing a design while it's being tested: good idea?

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