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Reload page in style: light

Because holy hell, I've now tried to work it out for Atom, Sublime, my entire Chrome browser, the possibility of writing in Markdown (which I hate), and DW itself. I'm willing to roll my eyes and draft out posts somewhere else, but I'm trying to avoid installing stuff just for DW, and I resent the notion of having a whole new program just for using HTML.

I just want to be able to select some text, smack down that sweet ctrl+i, and have that text be wrapped up in < em > emphasis tags. Is that so hard?

...and I might have text walled a bit in response to someone's question, and that's got me thinking a little bit. I've been trying to write more under my Medium and my twitter accounts, partly because I'm trying to expand my skill set and partly because I would like to actually eventually get paid for some of the work I do and the things I'm good at, and hell, if I'm writing for free anyway, might as well attach it to a name I get paid under so I can actually put it on my CV without flinching or tensing up at the thought of all my identities laid bare at any cursory google search.

Look. My legal name is pretty uncommon; I have to consider that sort of thing if I want to ever get hired again. But at the same time, I'm sick of closets and I've already posted one longform commentary on autism and word use under that byline, so we'll see where my writing winds up.

( more on identities under the cut )

( general updates on what's been up with me )