About

A self portrait photograph of the author. My, is he dashing.

Hi, my name is Paul Knight, and this is my site.

I live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area. I get paid to turn tea into code.

I love listening to music, pretending I'm a photographer, and doing nothing during summer afternoons.

Diplowhat?

A diplograph is a machine that produces two copies of text at the same time, like a machine that's both a typewriter and braille embosser in one.

See, Ava and I used to share this site and—actually the name doesn't make any sense, now that I think about it.

Colophon

I write with OmmWriter and Scrivener. I edit photos with Aperture and Photoshop, though I've used Lightroom in the past. I develop with TextMate and Xcode.

Diplograph is generated with a custom engine I call White Ink, written in Ruby. Content is written in White Cloth, a markup format based on the rdiscount Markdown implementation. HTML and CSS are generated with Haml and Sass. Some support is provided by Typography Helper, based on Typogrify. Image metadata is read with ExifTool. Equations are typeset with XeTeX and rasterized through Apple's CoreGraphics.

The design is constantly evolving.

One day I will write a proper post about how White Ink works, and possibly even clean it up for public release.

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