glyn / is on Nostr

Husband, father, grandfather, follower of Jesus, but very much a work in progress.

Retired software developer, ex-visiting lecturer, IETF editor. Likes repairability. BTW I use arch.

Hobbies: reading, blogging, running, sailing.

Delighted to live in Winchester, UK. Involved in a local church.

Last Notes

2024-10-09 08:40:19

Sent a suggestion on the Grauniad app to enable me to mark all articles read and also suppress read articles. This would stop me having to scroll through the same stuff multiple times. I wonder if other online newspapers offer these features?
#guardian

2024-10-09 08:40:19

2024-10-08 11:09:14

I recently found that a blog post of mine had a broken link to a Mastodon thread because the owner of the post I linked to chooses to expire their posts.
In future, I should:
* Summarise the thread in the blog post for posterity, reflection, and ease of reading.
* When it seems essential, link to my own Mastodon post(s), since these don't expire.
This feels like a corollary of POSSE. Anyone got further thoughts on this?
#POSSE #blogging

2024-10-03 07:37:20

Scientists map the connectome of a fly's brain, consisting of 130,000 cells and 50 million connections.
"The wiring diagram was made by slicing up a fly brain [...], photographing each of the 7,000 slices and digitally putting them altogether. Then the Princeton team applied artificial intelligence to extract the shapes and connections of all the neurons. But the AI wasn’t perfect – the researchers still had to fix over three million mistakes by hand."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0lw0nxw71po
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/242/331/768/192/037/original/d5211dbe1774fd70.webp

2024-09-07 17:56:37

As a non-US English speaker, when I use Duolingo to learn Spanish, I have to do two translations. E.g. Para hacer cola -> To Queue -> To stand in line. Good job I worked for American companies and am used to US English.
#Duolingo

2024-09-03 09:11:48

New blog post: Formatting maths using Typst
https://underlap.org/typst
#Mathematics #Typst #TexLatex #LaTeX