Old times good times: A Brief Timeline of the History of Blogging. Although I came late to the party (around 2006), I remember all those emerging blogs from the 2000s, I mean, before the advent of social networks. Then came Twitter, Blogger and Tumblr.

Want some training or refresh your TeX memory? https://texnique.xyz

Well, I finally updated my config for Doom Emacs, which now relies on straight to manage all packages. The first upgrade was quite buggy, but once I figured out I could just delete my current .emacs.d and start from scratch again, I got a working install in a few minutes. Beware that the process of downloading and configuring all packages is quite long. You will also likely need to update your autoloads, e.g., doom refresh -f. Also, if you have a problem rebuilding the pdf-tools viewer, eval this before running pdf-tools-install: (setenv "PKG_CONFIG_PATH" "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/Cellar/libffi/3.2.1/lib/pkgconfig"). #emacs

Live in your terminal, they said. Let’s start with ASCIIGenome and VisiData.

pastel: A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. (Not yet merged into Homebrew core.)

Variational Bayesian phylogenetic inference. #bioinformatics

Best Practices for Using Functional Programming in Python. #python

Monads for functional programming (PDF, 31 pp.).

Yesterday, I noticed a nice tweet by John Cook through one of his many accounts:

Objects are data with functions. Closures are functions with data.

— Computer Science (@CompSciFact) August 27, 2019

Here is a more detailed version of the above: Function vs Object.

A clean and minimalist theme for Jekyll: moving. It might provide a very nice template for GH pages.