News
25/4/2026 11:8 Giac.jl: “A Julia wrapper for the Giac computer algebra system.”
25/4/2026 11:6 UpSetPlot.jl: These “are a data visualization method for showing set data with more than three intersecting sets. UpSet plots tend to perform better than Venn diagrams for larger numbers of sets and when it is desirable to also show contextual information about the set intersections.”
21/04/2026 16:11 Compiling dwmblocks-async on Debian Linux
8/4/2026 7:36 Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that outsmarts even smart headphones: Clever design for penetrating noise-canceling algorithms. It will save some bicyclists from injury, but has the unfortunate side-effect of also allowing more of the morons who wear these headphones on the street to reproduce.
7/4/2026 7:5 Classical MCDM Methods and Their Operators on Grey Numbers Through Operator Overloading: “by leveraging operator overloading and multiple dispatch features of Julia programming language.”
25/3/2026 9:24 From PopOS to Debian: Where I discover that modern Debian Linux just works.
24/03/2026 07:59 OITOOLS: The All-in-One Tool Package for Optical Interferometry: “OITOOLS is a Julia package for optical interferometry, developed by Prof. Fabien Baron (Georgia State University) and collaborators.”
19/3/2026 19:23 Wielandt: Two surprising (to me, at least) theorems that endow the gamma function with a kind of uniqueness.
16/03/2026 09:06 Too Many Bad Articles About Emmy Noether: They seem to crop up monthly.
6/3/2026 11:44 JSXGraph.jl: [wip] Julia bridge to JSXGraph for interactive plots: “This package aims to help generate JSXGraph code from Julia code that can then be plugged in a statically served website”. From the FAQ: “Shouldn’t you just write Javascript? ¶ Probably.”
6/3/2026 8:14 Image manipulation with convolution using Julia: A nice tutorial, mainly concerned with providing an introductory taste of Julia, but teaching the basics of image convolutions.
5/3/2026 13:32 Was Christianity necessary for the invention of science?: I seem to hear the odd claim that somehow Christianity was necessary for science more and more often. So I welcome this demolishing of that idea, appearing in one of the Web’s best destinations for developments in the history of science.
4/3/2026 12:42 Pi Calculating Programs: Gabriel Konar-Steenberg has a hobby: writing interesting computer programs to calculate π. His Julia “code golfed” version runs faster than its C and assembly translation, prompting his comment that “Julia’s pairing of high-level syntax with serious performance makes it an ideal language in which to experiment with things like this.” He takes you through his devising of the algorithm in a talk at the 2025 JuliaCon.
2/3/2026 10:18 My Doctors Almost Got a Heart Attack When They Saw My Cholesterol: The LDL number may not mean what you or your doctor thinks. Interesting connection to probability theory.
26/2/2026 19:31 The Annoying Usefulness of Emacs: I’m a [Neo]Vim person. And this fantastic video is a good reason not to stick my toe into the other pond. Those are dangerous waters.
24/2/2026 19:30 Giant Steps: Check out this interesting note on John Cook’s site about Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”, and be sure to watch the excellent video that he links to.
19/2/2026 8:40 Ray Tracing in Makie: From Research Data to Photorealistic Renders: “We’re excited to announce RayMakie and Hikari, a physically-based GPU ray tracing pipeline integrated directly into Makie. Any Makie scene can now be rendered with photorealistic path tracing: just swap out the backend and get global illumination, volumetric media, spectral rendering, and physically-based materials, all running on the GPU.”
12/2/2026 12:31 Release pandoc 3.9: A new release of Pandoc has appeared. It has many valuable updates and fixes, and one big new feature: you can now use Pandoc within a web browser, thanks to WASM compilation.
30/1/2026 15:24 JETLS.jl: I have not tried this (I’m pretty happy with treesitter and haven’t bothered with language servers) but it’s an experimental language server for Julia. Instructions are provided to use with a handful of popular editors, including Vim and Neovim. Some Julia programmers on Discourse report good experiences.
