Marp: A Markdown Presentation App That Simplifies Your Tech Talks

In today\’s fast-paced tech world, giving effective presentations is crucial for conveying complex ideas and engaging audiences. While Markdown has emerged as a popular lightweight markup language for creating rich text documents, its use in creating dynamic, interactive, and visually appealing presentations can be challenging. This is where Marp comes into the picture – an … Read more

Code-athon, Code marathon or Hackthon: Is it good?

In the ever-evolving landscape of tech-driven workplaces, companies are increasingly adopting unique approaches to foster innovation, collaboration, and rapid problem-solving. One such approach gaining popularity is the code-athon, code marathon or hackathon — a structured event where teams come together in the office for a concentrated burst of coding, creativity, and camaraderie. In some companies, … Read more

Prioritizing Tasks – Time Management

Tasks

One of the important aspects of time management is to prioritize the tasks in hand. This is more of a daily routine one has to perform at the start of the day’s work. However, for some prioritizing might be confusing or difficult. That’s where the Priority Quadrant comes to the rescue. The Priority Quadrant, also … Read more

Kroki – Diagrams from textual descriptions!

diagramming

There are a lot of tools that enable rendering of diagrams using text descriptions. The popular ones include Mermaid – A diagramming and charting tool that uses Markdown-inspired text definitions. Supports drawing of Flowchart, Sequence Diagram, Graphs, Class Diagrams, ER Diagrams and much more Graphviz – A graph visualisation software to represent structural information as … Read more

Stunning Presentations with Asciidoctor and RevealJS

In the previous post, we quickly saw the power of Asciidoctor, how it could enhance the documentation, writing and many other features. One of the other great features is its ability to create stunning HTML presentations along with another utility called RevealJS Below is the sample presentation that is an asciidoctor markup file. = Stunning … Read more

Asciidoctor – A Writer’s Swiss Army Knife

There are a lot of tools that are used by authors and writers when they write their content. However, some of the tools have a steep learning curve are expensive get hard to maintain especially when there are more assets like images, diagrams and videos exporting to other formats suitable for web, ebook might require … Read more

Sleep and Be Productive

In the episode Night Terrors of The Star Trek: The Next Generation, the ship Enterprise and its crew go in search of missing science vessel USS Brattain in an uncharted binary star system and gets caught in a spatial phenomenon called The Tyken’s Rift – a massive rupture in space into which energy is absorbed. … Read more