Writing — 22 posts
Self-written, for good or for worse
Since having a notch on my MacBook, I cannot fit all the icons in my menu bar. I’ve tried heaps of apps to make it …
The folks at Astral have released ty, which they define as: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, …
I recently bought the Preonic keyboard, as my two Model 01 were not really portable. The Preonic is a superb keyboard …
Last year, I blogged about the Binepad BNK8, a macropad by Binepad. This week, I received the larger brother, the …
One of the gripes I have with Helix is not having automatic list continuation when writing Markdown. Until last week, …
Recently, the major browsers introduced the capability to go to a webpage highlighting and scrolling to a particular …
Up to today, I’ve been bothered by having local https websites served by Caddy, whose certificates were not …
Lately, I’ve been playing around with helix, a relatively new modal editor. One of the things I was missing was an …
I recently upgraded to a new M1 Pro Macbook Pro and the computer is managed by the company. It means that — for one …
The recent Monterey update (12.2), introduced a bug that drains the battery of my laptop while sleeping. A fix is to …
If you work with Python on macOS and are trying to let your kids play with things like turtle you will encounter errors …
This is totally a note for my future self. Sometimes when working with git I find myself having to create a patch, …
Sometimes, instead of using NeoVim, I do like to use Visual Studio Code (with Vim keybindings). Visual Studio Code is a …
Today I was sifting through the documentation for itertools.count Return a count object whose .next() method returns …
Depends on what you think about this snippet of code:1 let square y = y * y; limit = 100 in [(x, y, z) | y <- …
If you always wanted to automate the tedious process of exporting your collection of papers in Papers to BibTeX …
If you wish to keep an offsite Time Machine backup in a place which you don’t consider safe (for me it’s my …
If you have problems with Illustrator and PSfrag, that’s probably because you can’t have psfrag replace tags …
Well, why would I wanto to do that? Because in general djvu’s take up less space. Anyway, if you have a Mac with …
To add a shortcut for the Menu Item Copy as PDF you have to do the following (with a Mac) go to …
To use Leiden ezproxy with Leiden university you have to do the following. Open with Textedit.app the file …
One of the issues I still had with this blog was that the syntax highlighting for code blocks was static and generated …