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2020-10-13 09:30 #

Before I get into the strategy, I want to congratulate the Notes team for making what may be the only Apple app that has been unambiguously improving over the past few years. While it still shows evidence of the limited and ugly app it started out as, Notes is now one of the best note-taking apps on iOS, with features that nicely balance simplicity and power. — What is Notes good for?

2020-10-12 20:26 #

I started updating my stata-sk notes and I’m now using jupyter instead of ESS to process Stata code (because I couldn’t compile the project with my old setup). Looks great so far. I will write a full blog post once I get some time.

2020-10-12 20:24 #

Now I get this annoying message regarding battery status on my Macbook (only 331 cycles out of the 1000 expected for this model).

2020-10-12 20:20 #

The new platform is a winner. Everything is clean, quick, and configurable. When I ps uaxww, I’m not hogging ‘gigs’ of RAM just to have things up and running. There’s no black magic that derails me at every turn. In short, my sanity has been long restored. — Bye-bye, Apple

2020-10-12 19:38 #

The “Widescreen Tall” layout in Amethyst is that it works pretty well for everything related to plotting!

2020-10-11 19:04 #

OMG. One of the last goodies of the new version of kitty (0.19).

2020-10-09 18:54 #

Fortran has ruled scientific computing, but Julia emerged for large-scale numerical work. — The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language

2020-10-09 18:53 #
2020-10-09 18:46 #

Python LSP under Emacs: up to 700 Mo (three files opened, less than 20 files in the project). WTF? Switching back to Anaconda: 2 process, 20-30 Mo each. #emacs

2020-10-08 15:28 #