Thank you, Andy.

On 10/12/2020 11:05 AM, Andrew Russell wrote:

Dave’s recent essay, “Noticing history - a personal view” is published in the most recent edition of TUGboat - https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb41-2/tb128walden-noticing.pdf (issue ToC is here: https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb41-2/).

The first url above has been arranged to take you to the essay. The link to the essay from the TOC doesn't get you there because much of the content of issues of the journal is for members-only until the next issue (three times a year) is published; after that issues are completely open access. On the other hand, the presentations from the conference, whether in the proceedings issue or not, are publicly available at
https://www.youtube.com/c/TeXUsersGroup/playlists?view=50&shelf_id=2

Naturally are lot of the presentations are about TeX or LaTeX or another TeX-derived system. However, others are of more general interest; see the entire list at:
http://tug.org/tug2020/program.html
For instance, see the presentation of the person who invented Pandoc which I can imagine might be of use in some computing history publishing situations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9uZJFO54iM&list=PLLt9mKFAx-FaG0NA6akvvujgIdCus-Ct
The following was a favorite for me:
youtube.com/watch?v=7Cm2AcQiUuk
(it's history even if not computing history).

If you have comments on the essay (either supporting my argument or arguing against it), I would love to see them -- either sent to this list or to me at my email address. I am thinking about how to improve the essay in a revised version -- to make it more compelling for practitioners.

Dave