Half-Precision Floating-Point, Visualized.

Back to reading some RSS feeds thanks to newsboat. This is the third text-based app I use daily for processing incoming news: For mail, I settled on Neomutt, and for IRC that’s irssi.

I haven’t updated my Emacs config since July. Same for my dot files, which appear to be stabilized after several months of tricking zsh, vim, emacs & Co. Finally, I wrote no blog post the last two months. I must be busy with something else, I yet have to know with what.

  Agnes Obel, Aventine.

Hexagonal Grids.

The Tectonic Typesetting System. #tex

Coherent PDF Command Line Tools Community Release.

EDA (Exploratory Data Analysis): Stata program that automates the generation of exploratory data analysis reports. #stata

My Writing & Coding Workflow.

Most people today don’t know what the command line is, much less why they would want to bother with it. As computing pioneer Alan Kay said in a 2017 interview, “Because people don’t understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that ‘Guitar Hero’ is the same as a real guitar.” — Command Line Interface Guidelines