TheGiterary's author is Josh Rhoades, a programmer, from Alaska. He believes in better living through computer science principals and Penny[Penny Arcade comics.comics][pa]. He uses Vim, SSH,[Vim][vim], [SSH][openssh], [git][git], and an aging Macbook Pro.

[git]: http://git-scm.org [vim]: http://vim.org [openssh]: http://openssh.com [pa]: http://penny-arcade.com

Giterary began atop a mountain, when someone said “We should write a book.” Despite investigating many alternatives, no software solution solved this particular problem in a way that made sense. And thus a project was born.

The bulk of Giterary was created in the span of about 6 months, starting summer 2012. It was inspired initially by the Wigit codebase for its minimal solution and its few required dependencies.

If you’re interested, an article exists for Giterary on its [[CONVENTIONS|programming decisions and conventions]]conventions]], plus licensing information, if that interests you. Thanks go to: * Mike Rutledge, beta tester * Katy Laurance, beta reader * My parents, for asking good questions * John Gruber and the contributors to [Markdown][dfmarkdown] * Michael Fortin and the contributors to [PHP Markdown][phpmarkdown] * John Fraser and the maintainers at [Showdown][showdown] * Christian Bach and the contributors at [Tablesorter][tablesorter] * Remko Tronçon for his work on [Wigit][wigit] * Whoever added the “—-follow” tag to git log And everyone who had to listen to me go on about this, and were disappointed that I wasn’t actually writing a book. (yet) [dfmarkdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ [phpmarkdown]: http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/ [showdown]: https://github.com/coreyti/showdown [tablesorter]: http://tablesorter.com/docs/ [wigit]: http://el-tramo.be/software/wigit/ ~authorbias