[{"content":"Below is a curated list of RSS1 feeds. In general, appending index.xml to the end of most URLs2 will return the corresponding feed.\nArticles\nEverything\nWhy are there footnotes?\nreally simple syndication; if you\u0026rsquo;re on this page you probably already know what that is :)\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nuniversal resource locator; website addresses are a version of this\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n","permalink":"https://extralongdivision.com/rss/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eBelow is a curated list of RSS\u003csup id=\"fnref:1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#fn:1\" class=\"footnote-ref\" role=\"doc-noteref\"\u003e1\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/sup\u003e feeds. In general, appending \u003ccode\u003eindex.xml\u003c/code\u003e to the end of most URLs\u003csup id=\"fnref:2\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#fn:2\" class=\"footnote-ref\" role=\"doc-noteref\"\u003e2\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/sup\u003e will return the corresponding feed.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\nhttps://extralongdivision.com/articles/index.xml\"\u003eArticles\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\nhttps://extralongdivision.com/index.xml\"\u003eEverything\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/articles/please-define-your-jargon/\"\u003eWhy are there footnotes?\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"footnotes\" role=\"doc-endnotes\"\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"fn:1\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ereally simple syndication; if you\u0026rsquo;re on this page you probably already know what that is :)\u0026#160;\u003ca href=\"#fnref:1\" class=\"footnote-backref\" role=\"doc-backlink\"\u003e\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"fn:2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003euniversal resource locator; website addresses are a version of this\u0026#160;\u003ca href=\"#fnref:2\" class=\"footnote-backref\" role=\"doc-backlink\"\u003e\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e","title":"RSS"},{"content":"AI1 is ruining writing.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t mean how AI slop is polluting the internet. I don\u0026rsquo;t mean how our reliance on them is degrading our skills. I mean flesh and blood writers avoiding certain patterns to duck AI-use accusations. The most common one: the em dash.\nThe New York Times defended the em dash better than me. My gripe is the unexpected burden AI has put on humans — proving they are human.\nWe all despise reCAPTCHA, but generative AI and LLMs2 are a different beast. Job candidates are holding up a hand in front of their face in zoom calls. Students run their essays through AI detection algorithms before submission.\nBut I have no one to convince. Even if it is a GPT3-ism, IDGAF4 . I will continue to use my beloved em dash until data centers cause the heat death of humanity.\nWhy are there footnotes?\nartificial intelligence\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nlarge language models; Chat-GPT, Gemini, Perplexity, etc. are examples\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nChat-GPT\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI don\u0026rsquo;t give a f*ck\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n","permalink":"https://extralongdivision.com/articles/idgaf-im-still-using-the-emdash/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAI\u003csup id=\"fnref:1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#fn:1\" class=\"footnote-ref\" role=\"doc-noteref\"\u003e1\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/sup\u003e is ruining writing.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026rsquo;t mean how AI slop is polluting the internet. I don\u0026rsquo;t mean \u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-ai-ruining-our-skills-early-results-are-in-and-theyre-not-good/\"\u003ehow our reliance on them is degrading our skills\u003c/a\u003e. I mean flesh and blood writers avoiding certain patterns to duck AI-use accusations. The most common one: the em dash.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/magazine/chatgpt-dash-hyphen-writing-communication.html\"\u003eThe New York Times defended the em dash better than me\u003c/a\u003e. My gripe is the unexpected burden AI has put on humans — proving they are human.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"IDGAF I'm Still using the Em Dash"},{"content":"Split. If you\u0026rsquo;re a dancer, you probably thought of someone, hips to the ground, with their legs parallel to each other. If you\u0026rsquo;re a runner, you might have thought of your pace at each mile in a marathon. If you\u0026rsquo;re a bowler, you might have thought of the dreaded 7-10 split.\nSame word. Different meanings.\nLanguage is like that. Its imprecision can leave things ambiguous. Artists can use this to great effect in novels, poems, plays, etc.\nTechnical Writing Cannot be Ambiuous This is rarely intentional, but ambiguity manifests when we assume jargon we use everyday is obvious. Engineers are notorious for this. I.e, this post about making a chrome extension uses the term \u0026ldquo;MV3\u0026rdquo;1 four times but never defines it.\nThe meaning of MV3 is obvious in a post about chrome extensions.\nYou may know exactly what MV3 means, but an article titled \u0026ldquo;5 mistakes I made building an AI chrome extension\u0026rdquo; will attract beginners with little domain space knowledge. If everyone assumes the reader knows what MV3 means, how will a novice ever learn the definition?\nJust Google it.\nLet me remind you that search engines personalize your results. Searching \u0026ldquo;MV3\u0026rdquo; on a seasoned developer\u0026rsquo;s machine may return docs on migrating a service worker. Someone else may get the 2004 St. Louis Cardinals.\nContext makes MV3\u0026rsquo;s meaning clear.\nThe author controls the article\u0026rsquo;s context, but they do not control the readers\u0026rsquo; context. When I wrote \u0026ldquo;split\u0026rdquo; as the first word of this post, I had no idea how you would perceive it. I do not know if you are a dancer or a bowler or a runner. I have no idea what experiences you have when you read my writing.\nI can, however, reduce any ambiguity by defining all the jargon I use. There\u0026rsquo;s a way to do this without being cumbersome.\nFootnotes Write your post as you normally would, then, for any acronym, add a footnote. Your writing tools likely have built in support.\nSeasoned web developers didn\u0026rsquo;t need to read the footnote to know what MV3 meant. Everyone else has already scrolled down, read the definition, and continued reading. Footnotes are friction-less to knowledge area experts and immensely helpful to everyone else.\nDo us all a favor — please define your jargon.\nGoogle Manifest Version 3\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n","permalink":"https://extralongdivision.com/articles/please-define-your-jargon/","summary":"\u003ch2 id=\"split\"\u003eSplit.\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026rsquo;re a dancer, you probably thought of someone, hips to the ground, with their legs parallel to each other. If you\u0026rsquo;re a runner, you might have thought of your pace at each mile in a marathon. If you\u0026rsquo;re a bowler, you might have thought of the dreaded 7-10 split.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSame word. Different meanings.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLanguage is like that. Its imprecision can leave things ambiguous. Artists can use this to great effect in novels, poems, plays, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Please Define Your Jargon"}]