Nellie McKessoninHederis AppHow I Built a Custom Tool to Automate a Comic Book Publisher’s Ebook Creation — and Save Them…We worked together to build a solution that they could start using quickly and dramatically cut down their conversion costs and timeAug 13Aug 13
Nellie McKessonInstall Ruby with RVM on an M3 Pro MacAfter spending an hour or so reading through StackOverflow and GitHub issues about this, here’s a quick walkthrough of how I got RVM up and…Nov 8, 2023Nov 8, 2023
Nellie McKessoninHederis AppSingle Source Publishing and InDesign are Incongruous — Here’s Why Hederis Now Exports IDML“Single source publishing” means, at its simplest, creating all of your output formats from the same text source file (here are a couple…May 24, 2023May 24, 2023
Nellie McKessoninHederis AppProduction and the Supply ChainBrief Thoughts About the BISG Supply Chain SurveySep 15, 2022Sep 15, 2022
Nellie McKessoninHederis AppAutomated Publishing Workflows, ExplainedWherein I attempt to demystify XML workflows, “single-source,” “digital first,” etc., in the context of book publishingFeb 5, 20212Feb 5, 20212
Nellie McKessonCartoonists+Classics: On Isolation and the Companionship of Great BooksA short essay on the impact that three classic books had on my lifeMar 5, 2019Mar 5, 2019
Nellie McKessonBuilding a Slack Bot with Node.js to Query Channel HistoryI use Slack and emoji reactions for task management, and I built a bot to fill in the gaps. Here’s the code.Feb 4, 20161Feb 4, 20161
