Science; Sociology and institution design for
Scientist, research thyself
2020-05-17
– 2020-08-06
Visual Studio Code for prose
for pros
2020-06-12
– 2020-08-01
Time management
Akrasia, gamification, hyperbolic discounting, quantified self and voluntary blackmail
2017-06-18
– 2020-07-25
Taking notes
Notes on notes on notes
2020-02-17
– 2020-07-23
Organising a music collection
Also guessing missing metadata
2020-01-03
– 2020-07-21
Recommended workplace habits
2020-07-19
Citation management
On PDFcocking
2014-09-08
– 2020-07-14
Playing music on the computer
Continuing difficulty thereof
2014-11-26
– 2020-07-08
LaΤeΧ
…and ΤeΧ, and ConTeXt and XeTeX and TeXleMeElmo
2014-09-08
– 2020-07-06
Web API automation
2020-06-04
– 2020-07-03
Low code development
2020-07-03
Visual Studio Code/ VS Codium
Egg-laying wool milk text editor
2018-01-25
– 2020-07-03
Feed readers/content aggregators
2016-06-29
– 2020-07-03
Task launchers
2017-04-10
– 2020-07-02
Teamwork
2020-01-26
– 2020-07-02
Spreadsheetalikes
2014-10-15
– 2020-06-29
Research discovery
Has someone answered that question you have not worked out how to ask yet?
2019-01-22
– 2020-06-26
Terminal session management and multiplexing
2020-06-11
– 2020-06-25
Nootropics
The struggle to find a drug that makes you so fast that you save more time taking it than you lose reading about it
2017-08-07
– 2020-06-23
Zotero
The adequate citation tool
2019-12-01
– 2020-06-23
How to communicate
with humans
2019-04-02
– 2020-06-19
Learning stuff, HOWTO
Shoving skills into my brain
2020-06-16
Code editors
The best thing since punchcards
2014-11-11
– 2020-06-14
Soft methodology of science
2012-01-13
– 2020-06-11
Terminals
More realistically, terminal emulators, because anyone who is owns an actual working VT102 these days is not using it to do work
2018-10-11
– 2020-06-11
Jupyter
The least excruciating compromise between 1) irreproducible science, and 2) spooking your luddite colleagues
2017-02-09
– 2020-06-08
Journalism, normative
2020-01-26
– 2020-06-07
Science, history and philosophy thereof
2017-07-08
– 2020-06-05
Academic reading workflow
The continuing ascendancy of using piles of dead tree products for understanding cutting edge digital informatics
2016-04-11
– 2020-06-05
Productivity schemes
If you can tell me why this placeholder post from 2014 is still consistently in my top 10 most popular posts I would be grateful
2014-10-09
– 2020-06-05
Browse the internet for me
Introducing modern automation to the ancient crafts of serfing the web and tilling the clickfarm
2016-06-17
– 2020-06-04
The simplest thing
Minimum viable whatever, worse is better, PC-losering, Burkean engineering
2020-02-03
– 2020-06-03
Data dashboards
On assuring the client that you are doing something data-sciency via clickable widgets
2020-03-12
– 2020-06-02
Diversity, cultivating
2020-05-27
Plain-text blogging
2014-12-29
– 2020-05-25
Mathematics without LaΤeΧ
2019-11-19
– 2020-05-25
Incentive mechanism design
Markets, cakes, karma, and games
2014-09-22
– 2020-05-24
Academic blogging workflow
Minimising the friction of advertising my thoughts in order to maximise the chance each thought gets advertised. Not covered: maximising quality of thoughts
2020-05-22
Digital scientific workbooks
Literate coding for reality
2014-11-17
– 2020-05-20
Academic writing workflow
Cranking the paper mill in the 21st century
2014-10-04
– 2020-05-18
Voice transcriptions
2019-01-08
– 2020-05-16
Presentations
Slide decks and other stylised academic dominance displays
2015-06-01
– 2020-05-12
Markdown editors
2020-05-09
Clipboard managers
Remembering two things at once
2018-08-09
– 2020-04-30
VS Code as LaΤeΧ editor
2019-11-11
– 2020-04-29
Web browser hacks
Castor oil for your webshits
2017-04-20
– 2020-04-27
Email clients
2020-04-21
– 2020-04-22
Email
Doing email better, or better, not doing email at all
2015-01-13
– 2020-04-21
Academic publishing
2015-07-07
– 2020-04-16
Browser graphics
2015-11-20
– 2020-04-06
Organising a photo collection
2020-01-03
– 2020-03-29
Ergonomic work
2020-03-27
LaΤeΧ symbols, fonts and character sets
2020-02-11
– 2020-03-20
Plotting for the web
2015-11-20
– 2020-03-19
Visualising data
2016-07-04
– 2020-03-19
Tool discovery
Settling upon an adequate gizmo to identify other adequate gizmos
2020-02-19
– 2020-03-12
Faking being on social media
and other parts of the internet too boring to countenance
2016-07-21
– 2020-03-11
Diagramming and visualising graphical models
my need for this is conditionally dependent upon my deadline, given the subject matter
2018-03-29
– 2020-02-26
Yak shaving
2020-02-13
Teaching
How-to
2020-02-11
– 2020-02-12
Teaching Statistics
With a side order of communicating statistics
2020-02-12
LaΤeΧ Installation
2019-11-19
– 2020-02-10
knitr/RMarkdown
2020-02-02
Media metadata management and editing
2014-11-27
– 2020-01-03
Wikis
plus also CMSs
2020-01-03
– 2020-01-02
Shells
That alternative to GUIs by which you replace clicking-on-the-wrong-thing errors with typing-the-wrong-thing errors
2014-10-03
– 2020-01-01
Editors for LaΤeΧ
2019-11-19
– 2019-12-29
Esoteric language zoo
2019-12-27
Scalable vector graphics
“SVG” to its friends
2019-12-23
Markdown
An itemised list of the esoteric difficulties of bullet points
2019-07-17
– 2019-12-07
Fish shell
A command line shell that does not think that the problem is you
2019-03-30
– 2019-11-19
Maths hacks
2016-08-18
– 2019-11-13
Webhooks
2019-11-05
Diagrams
Of the kind I need, a practical guide to the creation thereof
2015-03-02
– 2019-10-17
Build tools for data science
2016-07-27
– 2019-06-18
Travel hacks
2019-05-18
3d data
A grab bag of point clouds, volumetric data and photogrammetry
2019-02-15
Meditation
Socially-mandated zoning out
2016-01-05
– 2019-01-22
Interactive visualisation
2015-03-22
– 2019-01-07
Atom
A text editor I seemed to be using
2017-06-19
– 2018-11-06
Flashcards
Spaced repetition systems
2015-01-02
– 2017-04-01
Visualising spatial data
2016-07-04