A little over three weeks ago I announced this year’s theme (“Small Gods”). Last week on April 1 I announced the starting lineup of small gods I was going to write about.
At this point it looks like an April Fools joke, but it wasn’t mine, on purpose. I think perhaps it was the universe playing a prank on me.
I’ve posted many times about the diagrams I create mechanically from the data of the Echelon Reference Series. My first few releases were more than ten years ago. Every single diagram was laid out manually.
Yes, this was horribly tedious.
For more than eight years I’ve wanted to automate conversion of the mechanical diagrams from DOT to TikZ format. A few days ago I was reading some of my LaTeX documentation regarding TikZ and thought I saw a way…
I did.
I now have all the pieces I need to start this transformation. This bit of work has my full attention right now. I’m changing the focus of the 2025 A-Z Blog Challenge.