Chill Jazz, again and again.

I almost done redesigning the site using a simpler theme, hopefully as responsive as the previsous one (Even). This time, I started with Ezhil and I’ve modified it extensively to meet my needs. It only remains to manage old posts with TOML header (to be converted to YAML header) and fix pre block.

The second edition of Modern C, by Jens Gustedt, is finally out. Together with with Ben Klemens’s 21st Century C, this is a must have if you’re interested in a modern take on C.

As of today, I’m moving forward with learning Chez Scheme. If Racket moves toward non-Scheme syntax, there could be considerable opportunities for Chez to grow its community. — Exploring Scheme implementations.

How to write web applications with Racket. #racket

How to write a game in Haskell from scratch. #haskell

Warp is a high-performance HTTP server library written in Haskell, a purely functional programming language. #haskell

Apparently, the Python version of Lectures in Quantitative Economics with Python got a “little upgrade” (1558 pp. compared to 638 pp. in 2015). #python

While I’m really impressed with the Eisvogel template for my Org->PDF toolchain—the rendered listings remember me of the Nord theme that I use in my terminal and under Emacs or Vim), I’m also investigating other alternatives. Here are is a nice candidate: arabica, but that may well be too much for what I need. And I learned that there already was some attempt at generating pretty HTML book via Pandoc/Jekyll before Hadley Wickham Advanced R.

Customizing pandoc to generate beautiful pdfs from markdown.