Cigarettes After Sex, Cigarettes After Sex.

Early in the morning, I decided to reformat my old notes from various formats (RST, MD, TXT) to Org. It took me more than two hours to make things look like they weren’t writtent in 2005 on Linux!

Very happy to see than Tony Rossini is going to have a new homepage. #emacs #rstats

Robust Arithmetic in Computational Geometry.

Static Sites with Hugo, Tachyons, and Netlify.

Lisp people: What’s your go-to language for when you want to write a quick script. I for one do most of my scripting stuff using Bash, sed/awk, and Python. However, it looks like some folks tend to rely on Clojure, various flavours of Scheme, CL, or even Perl 6 (but why?).

Tutorial on vega-lite and Haskell. #haskell

Handouts with exercises on scientific computing using Python, feat. some introduction to BioPython. #python

TIL about https://dotfiles.github.io, the unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub.

The good things in a community site come from people more than technology; it’s mainly in the prevention of bad things that technology comes into play. Technology certainly can enhance discussion. Nested comments do, for example. But I’d rather use a site with primitive features and smart, nice users than a more advanced one whose users were idiots or trolls. — Paul Graham, What I’ve learned from Hacker News