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They're Made out of Meat

"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
Sat 10 Oct 2020 01:45:28 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html
The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats - YouTube

A nice 20-minute video on Penrose tiling
Fri 02 Oct 2020 06:06:58 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48sCx-wBs34

math video
xi-editor retrospective | Raph Levien’s blog

Raph Levien's postmortem on his attempt at an high-performance, asynchronous text editor.
Fri 18 Sep 2020 08:33:29 AM MDT - permalink -

- - https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.html

programming
What's up with these 3-cent microcontrollers? - Jay Carlson

Jay Carlson's excellent write up of the very inexpensive Padauk microcontroller's.
Sat 12 Sep 2020 09:31:12 AM MDT - permalink -

- - https://jaycarlson.net/2019/09/06/whats-up-with-these-3-cent-microcontrollers/

electronics
The Secret Ska History of That Weird Levitating Businessman Emoji

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Fri 11 Sep 2020 07:49:08 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://www.newsweek.com/2016/05/06/secret-ska-history-man-business-suit-levitating-emoji-442192.html

emoji fonts
CSS: em, px, pt, cm, in…

An overview of CSS units and when to use each.
Tue 01 Sep 2020 11:34:40 AM MDT - permalink -

- - https://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/units.en.html

css web
How Flash games shaped the video game industry

Flash games are a very important part of game dev history. But despite millions of games available on thousands of websites, I only ever played or will ever play tower defense games.
Thu 23 Jul 2020 10:22:35 AM MDT - permalink -

- - http://www.flashgamehistory.com/

games
Elo Win Probability Calculator

A very useful calculator for determining win/draw/loss probabilities for two players given their ratings.
Wed 15 Jul 2020 02:52:53 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://wismuth.com/elo/calculator.html

chess math
How ‘Trainable’ Is VO2 Max Really? – A Case Study

This is a clear article which argues that the most effective way to train VO2 max is low intensity, high volume training.
Tue 09 Jun 2020 10:10:38 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://simplifaster.com/articles/how-trainable-is-vo2-max/

running
Microtype - Thesis in LaTeX

An overview of microtypography via the Microtype LaTeX package.

I'm not convinced all of the microtyped examples look any better than the naive spacing...
Thu 28 May 2020 05:19:31 PM MDT - permalink -

- - http://www.khirevich.com/latex/microtype/

latex typography
Build your own Command Line with ANSI escape codes

Nice intro to writing basic terminal user interfaces with ANSI escape codes.
Thu 28 May 2020 05:17:52 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/BuildyourownCommandLinewithANSIescapecodes.html

programming
Learning Emacs Key Bindings

On some of the rationale behind Emacs key binding conventions.
Thu 28 May 2020 05:06:18 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://yiufung.net/post/emacs-key-binding-conventions-and-why-you-should-try-it/

emacs text-editor
Consistent terminal colors with 16-ANSI-color Vim themes

I was annoyed recently when a Vim theme I like[1] only used the standard 16 ANSI colors in 256-color terminals (like Apples' Terminal.app which does not support true/24-bit colors). But there are advantages.

https://github.com/bluz71/vim-moonfly-colors
Wed 27 May 2020 11:23:57 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/vim-16-color/

vim
History and effective use of Vim

Joe "begriffs" Nelson's tips on using Vim.
Tue 26 May 2020 08:34:19 AM MDT * - permalink -

- - https://begriffs.com/posts/2019-07-19-history-use-vim.html

text-editor vim
Ken Steen: I probably would not be programming if it weren't for open source software. - Root.cz

Interview with the guy who crated the vifm file manager (25.7.2008)
Mon 25 May 2020 07:51:06 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://www.root.cz/texty/ken-steen/

commandline linux
The musings of bluz71

some nice vim tips

Wed 20 May 2020 10:37:45 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://bluz71.github.io/2017/05/15/vim-tips-tricks.html

text-editor vim
How I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape | Gilles Castel

How to quickly edit SVG figures in Inkscape (using a custom Xlib-based shortcut manager) and insert the results in a LaTeX document. Gilles Castel is a note-taking wizard.
Wed 20 May 2020 02:50:14 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-2/

inkscape latex python vim
How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim | Gilles Castel

Inspiring overview of how to take real-time notes in LaTeX using Vim with the Ultisnips plugin.
Wed 20 May 2020 02:26:44 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/

latex text-editor vim
Treatise on Font Rasterisation

Takes a look at some problems in font rasterization (anti-aliasing, hinting, etc).
Sun 10 May 2020 10:38:16 AM MDT - permalink -

- - https://freddie.witherden.org/pages/font-rasterisation/

graphics
Great LetsRun.com Threads

Some actually good/informative threads on letsrun
Tue 21 Apr 2020 08:59:02 AM MDT - permalink -

- - https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=308471

running

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