News
8/1/2026 10:56 tylax: A bi-directional converter between Typst and LaTeX.: Aims to be more thorough than the conversions that can be achieved with Pandoc. Also has experimental TikZ -> CeTZ graphics conversion.
3/1/2026 10:12 Two Nights Playing With Fire At Patrick Mahomes’ And Travis Kelce’s Steakhouse: I have no plans to visit Kansas City, and even if I did I wouldn’t go to this restaurant, so this review holds no direct relevance for me. However, it’s fun to read.
02/01/2026 13:15 My bstackmfact patch for dwm: My first dwm patch: updates and combines the bottomstack patch and the stackmfact patch.
31/12/2025 7:52 I Am An AI Hater: “I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.” I’m with him.
24/11/2025 9:46 How Black music brought me closer to Judaism: “You could put a record on the stereo and feel righteous about reproducing the human species to it.”
18/11/2025 11:55 Disney lost Roger Rabbit: Interesting and informative article by Cory Doctorow about the use of Termination in copyright law and related issues and history.
18/11/2025 11:18 Simplifying Julia Package Integration with Extensions: There aren’t many tutorials about making package extensions, so this is welcome.
16/11/2025 20:46 Typst and other LaTeX competitors: My article about Typst in the latest edition of Linux Magazine is now available.
5/11/2025 13:22/08/2022 07:32 Practical Julia in Russian: I recently learned that my Julia book will be translated into Russian for distribution in the Kazakhstan / Georgia region.
4/11/2025 09:28 Julia 1.12 brings progress on standalone binaries and more: My article about Julia 1.12 appeared today in LWN. This free link is a favor to my readers. Please consider subscribing to this fine publication.
1/11/2025 13:08 Klein bottles and nuclear fusion: Some old math finds an unexpected application.
1/11/2025 10:10 Typst: How to create accessible PDFs from the start
26/10/2025 13:54 Responses: I agree with Jeremy Keith that websites commenting on other websites is far better than “social media”, and am sad about what could have been.
24/10/2025 14:32 Typst 0.14: Now accessible: Version 0.14 of Typst already shows impressive progress over the previous release, which I reviewed last month.
22/10/2025 11:48 Emmy Noether Can’t Get a Break
20/10/2025 11:23 Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music: Sean Carroll talks to Dmitri Tymoczko about his mathematical descriptions of music. I first encountered Tymoczko and his intriguing scholarship when I reported on the 2016 AAAS conference for Ars Technica.
10/10/2025 18:30 Julia 1.12: New Features and Updates: A useful explanation of a few of the new features in Julia v1.12.
8/10/2025 13:48 Coattails: Don’t say “AI” — say what you mean, if you indeed know what you mean. But this article has more than that: the author has noticed an interesting development in terminology.
8/10/2025 13:05 I didn’t bring my son to a museum to look at screens: Hear, hear. My thoughts as well when visiting so many museums.
5/10/2025 13:41 Why I Choose Email Over Messaging: I’m with him.
