Dave Lonning, Documentation Wrangler
Mar 14, 2018•28 min
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Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com
Dave Lonning — world-traveler, world-builder — joins the show to talk about writing documentation for Omni apps — and about how the tools and formats have changed over the years.
He also talks about moving, after college, to Japan — where he taught English and later worked on video game localization. He was there in 2011 when a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit.
Dave’s hobbies include role-playing games — running and creating — and painting miniatures. And, most importantly, he’s a cat person who’s learned to love the office canids.
You can find Dave @zroundbls on Twitter.
Some other people, places, and things mentioned:
- Apple Help format
- Apple Help Viewer
- OmniOutliner
- Python
- WebView
- EPUB
- iBooks
- MultiMarkdown
- OmniGraffle
- OmniFocus
- OmniPlan
- OmniGraphSketcher
- The bus to work
- Documentation at support.omnigroup.com
- Apple-II-compatible Laser 128
- Performa 405
- Silo
- Macalaster College
- Japan
- The Last Samurai
- All your base are belong to us
- PCs
- 2011 Japanese Earthquake
- William Van Hecke
- Seattle
- Interbay
- Caffe Appassionato
- Role-playing games (RPGs)
- Dungeons & Dragons (D&D)
- Pathfinder
- Painting miniatures
- Cat
- Made-up languages
- The Rocketeer
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