Org Mode LMS and Content Modularity

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:47:57 +1000

I came across this blog post - https://outputerror.com/posts/prepping-courses-with-org-mode/ - in Sacha Chua’s 14 September 2026 emacs news and I found it quite interesting.

The author, Rick Wysocki, talks about the idea of component content modularity from technical writing. I had not come across this term before. It applies the software engineering principles of reuse and DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) to writing. The idea being that if your writing is in small, modular reusable components it is easy to pull together different combinations of the content for different purposes (e.g. a first lesson on a topic as well as an end of semester summary lesson). It also means that you can update content in the original component source, and that flows through to all of the places that it is used.

John McPhee

Sat, 16 May 2026 16:33:46 +1000

I have recently been reading several books by John McPhee which I have been really enjoying. Recently my reading has either tended towards either technical non-fiction works or fiction that is easy to read - sci-fi and thrillers. John McPhee’s writing is non-fiction, but meticulously crafted in a way that delights in its use of the english language. The facts and observations of non-fiction are seamlessly integrated into the writing. It is information dense, but does not seem that way.

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Org Mode LMS and Content Modularity

John McPhee