by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes it is worth the effort to make the output “look good.” Sometimes this pretty printing is a waste and only aggravates those involved.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This past week at work I spent hours and hours pretty printing. We had “done the work” and were trying to make a printout of the work for others. Of course, if others couldn’t read the printout, it was worthless. Let’s just adjust this and that a little bit and it will all be okay. Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hours and hours spent. The result was a prettier printout. Was it worth it? Well, I am sure it was worth it to someone. To me? I am still debating with myself as all that effort to make things 1.23% better was aggravating. I would rather not do it. I mean, my work product was good and its worth was obvious to anyone who cared to strain their neck to see it and…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sigh. No, the pretty printing was worth the effort. I just didn’t want to do it. Surely we had someone around who could do that for me? Nope. It was my job. I know it was my job. I still didn’t like it. Sometimes that is what you do, you pretty print and you move on to the next task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes it is worth the effort to make the output “look good.” Sometimes this pretty printing is a waste and only aggravates those involved. This past week at work I spent hours and hours pretty printing. We had “done the work” and were trying to make a printout of the work for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[386,113,32,12,63,456,67],"tags":[387,225,154,135,183,457,187],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances","category-clarity","category-communication","category-design","category-expectations","category-please","category-work","tag-appearances","tag-clarity","tag-communication","tag-design","tag-expectations","tag-please","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4157,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/4157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}