Editor![Two-frame cartoon. Frame 1: Bespectacled editor sits with curly-haired editor at a table in a café. She says, "It can be so frustrating to work with [industry-standard software] sometimes!" A man in glasses sips coffee at the next table. Frame 2: The man turns around and says, "I couldn’t help overhearing. Why don’t you just use [open-source alternative that lacks the functionality you need for your work, offers no support, and is fundamentally incompatible with your clients’ workflow]? I switched five years ago and haven’t looked back."](https://i0.wp.com/ivacheung.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-08-Open_source.png?ssl=1 "\"Libre\" means free, as in free mattress!")
I despise Microsoft and Adobe as much as the next person, but the next time a non-editor tells me to switch to LibreOffice, I’m sending them to this feature comparison and asking them to search for “track changes.”
Category: Editors
Confirmation
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Fibliography
Holiday
Copilot is my god
Dedicated to Jen Anderson. Click through to enlarge!
Out of sorts, part 2
Modern haunting
(Technically the November cartoon, but I wanted to catch the tail end of spooky season.) Bonus panel!
Out of sorts, part 1
New edition
Erin Brenner has put together an amazing resource for editors adjusting to the new edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (including the electric yellow rectangle on the web version).
Microsoft Read Aloud
(It occurs to me that this cartoon might make zero sense if you didn’t grow up watching the Electric Company.)