Tiling managers
Switched to Rectangle on my macbook. It's a "tiling window manager", and I hadn't used one for over six years now, ever since I stopped using a Linux laptop for personal/office use…
Mis-placed optimism
The heady promises of the 90s, w.r.t to the internet, and how it would bring greater openness and understanding, came to nothing, and gave us the dystopian social-media-verse we live in today. But th…
A little robot
Ended up assembling a little robot ("Zivko") this weekend. Doesn't do much, just basic obstacle avoidance and tracking, but looks "cute" enough for my daughter. Finished pro…
Monthly recap (Nov 2021)
Major update * Maui trip * left a day later than planned, because of tests that were needed * warm sum, yummy food and pool time * Tara turned 7! Minor updates * D…
Generally interesting links - Nov 2021
Science and the world * A magic treatment for paralysis? * A self-assembling gel injected at the site of spinal cord injuries in paralysed mice has enabled them to wa…
First bit of computational art
Just a tiny thing right now, but what matters is ... it's quick, relaxing and ... yes, fun. And here's the (short) notebook that made it.…
Advent-of-code 2021
Using Wolfram Mathematica for this is more satisfying than it should be https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/agam.brahmawolfram/Published/AOC%202021.nb It was shockingly easy to do all this. * REPL/N…
Book store browsing
Saw these in the Amazon Books store we stumbled into for half an hour today. "The Dawn of everything" is the most interesting of this bunch, it seems like a legit re-imagining of pre-histor…
The humor in Radical Candor
(From a recent issue of the Economist)…
Random excerpts from "Godzilla, Singular point"
Presented entirely context-free (from episode 11) but even so, hopefully demonstrates that this isn't "just another anime" or "just another monster flick" :-)…
"On Cyberspace"
Warning: From 1995 (25 years ago!) Today the term "cyberspace" sounds silly (perhaps "internet culture" comes closest) but here's a 10-min clip of Neil Postman talking about i…
Notebook requirements
Here's what I want from a paper notebook: * Tomoe River Paper (with an exception for Midori MD) * Grid (i.e. not plain pages, not lined pages) * Page numbers (a new addition) * Size (A5 or A6…