faster_pussycat
How to communicate
with humans
2019-04-02
– 2022-09-25Voice transcriptions and speech recognition
2019-01-08
– 2022-09-25Jupyter
The least excruciating compromise between ease of 1) doing data science and 2) seeming to laypeople to be doing data science
2017-02-09
– 2022-09-24Tolerating Jupyter’s file format
In order to make your python code accessible, we wrapped it into encoded javascript strings. No need to thank us.
2017-02-09
– 2022-09-24Feed readers
Automated content aggregation for an internet designed to inform you rather than distract you
2016-06-29
– 2022-09-24Markdown editors
2020-05-09
– 2022-09-20Jupyter front end systems
UX design by underfunded committee is how I like my data science experience
2017-02-09
– 2022-09-19Static websites
JAMstack etc
2014-12-29
– 2022-09-11LaTeX mathematics hacks
2014-09-08
– 2022-09-07Soft methodology of science
2012-01-13
– 2022-09-06Terminals
More realistically, terminal emulators, because anyone who owns an actual working VT102 these days is not using it to do work
2018-10-11
– 2022-09-06Learning stuff
Shoving knowledge into my brain
2020-06-16
– 2022-08-30Managing people
Making piece with the fact that I cannot do everything myself
2020-07-19
– 2022-08-30Project management
With special attention to speculative and innovative projects
2021-03-23
– 2022-08-28Special LaTeX symbols
2020-02-11
– 2022-08-11Practical LaTeX fonts and character sets
2020-02-11
– 2022-08-11Quarto
Swiss army knife for hand-whittling scientific reports, slides and blogs
2022-05-01
– 2022-08-10Tensorboard
2020-10-23
– 2022-08-10Tracking experiments in machine learning
2020-10-23
– 2022-08-08Time management
The psychology of getting stuff done
2017-06-18
– 2022-08-08Quantified self
Instrumentation and analytics for body and soul.
2022-01-11
– 2022-08-07Code editors
The best thing since punchcards
2014-11-11
– 2022-08-07Academic 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
– 2022-08-07Mathematics without LaTeX
2019-11-19
– 2022-08-06Trapped beliefs
Thinking now what made sense then
2022-04-09
– 2022-08-06Spreadsheetalikes
2014-10-15
– 2022-08-02Zotero
The adequate citation tool
2019-12-01
– 2022-08-01Markdown
An itemised list of the esoteric difficulties involved in bullet points
2019-07-17
– 2022-07-30Data dashboards and ML demos
On assuring the client that you are doing something data-sciency because it looks like in the movies
2020-03-12
– 2022-07-28Scenius
2020-01-26
– 2022-07-28Teamwork
2020-01-26
– 2022-07-28Diversity in teams
Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale
2020-05-27
– 2022-07-28Performance indicators, Measurement, analytics
Street fighting statistics
2014-09-22
– 2022-07-09Science communication
On making people feel they are smart enough to teach themselves, or failing that, that they are smart enough to fund YOU to teach yourself
2021-06-02
– 2022-07-05VS Code / VS Codium
Egg-laying wool milk code editor
2018-01-25
– 2022-07-01Taking notes
Notes on notes on notes
2020-02-17
– 2022-06-29Algorithmic mechanism design
Computational complexity and fairness results for markets and games
2014-09-22
– 2022-06-29Soft incentive mechanism design
Markets, cakes, karma, and reverse game theory, applied to humans
2014-09-22
– 2022-06-29Workhacks
How to succeed in business (with or without trying)
2020-07-19
– 2022-06-14Attention management tips for web browsing
2017-04-20
– 2022-06-08Terminal session management and multiplexing
2020-06-11
– 2022-06-06Hydra for tracking machine learning experiments
2021-10-20
– 2022-06-03LaTeX
…and ΤeΧ, and ConTeXt and XeTeX and TeXleMeElmo
2014-09-08
– 2022-05-30VS Code online and networked
2018-01-25
– 2022-05-25Spatial data in R
2021-03-21
– 2022-05-24VS Code for python
A quite good python IDE
2021-08-10
– 2022-05-19Jupyter UI wrangling
What happens inside those notebook cells doesnt stay inside tgose notebook cells
2017-02-09
– 2022-05-13Email
Doing email better, or better, not doing email at all
2015-01-13
– 2022-05-10Email hosts
Who handles my mail? And what do they do with it?
2020-12-30
– 2022-05-10knitr/RMarkdown etc
2020-02-02
– 2022-04-30Blogroll
The internet of essays
2008-11-02
– 2022-04-22VS Code as LaTeX editor
2019-11-11
– 2022-04-21Webmail systems
2022-04-18Email clients
2020-04-21
– 2022-04-18Blogdown
Plus other RMarkdown-derived scholarly blogging systems
2020-08-26
– 2022-04-17The blogosphere
Now with added newsletter-o-sphere
2014-12-29
– 2022-04-17Tracking my website traffic
Optimising scarce attention into the shopping cart widget
2021-01-30
– 2022-04-16Typesetting algorithms in LaTeX
Pseudocode
2014-09-08
– 2022-04-08Plotting for the web
2015-11-20
– 2022-04-05Visual Studio Code for prose
for pros
2020-06-12
– 2022-04-05Playing music on the computer
Continuing difficulty thereof
2014-11-26
– 2022-04-04Doing complicated things the obvious way
and not researching alternatives when the obvious way turns out to be wrong
2022-04-04
– 2022-04-04Digital scientific workbooks
Literate coding for reality
2014-11-17
– 2022-03-31Academic writing workflow
Cranking the paper mill in the 21st century
2014-10-04
– 2022-03-10Configuring machine learning experiments
2021-10-20
– 2022-03-09Science; Sociology and institution design for
Scientist, falsify thyself
2020-05-17
– 2022-03-06Fish shell
A command line shell that does not think that the problem is you
2019-03-30
– 2022-03-04Akrasia
Description to come later
2017-06-18
– 2022-02-25Visualising probabilistic graphical models
Also related models, such as Neural nets
2018-03-29
– 2022-02-18Diversity in society
Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic
2017-02-19
– 2022-02-13Academic reading workflow
The continuing ascendancy of using piles of dead tree products for understanding cutting edge digital informatics
2016-04-11
– 2022-02-13Academic publishing
2015-07-07
– 2022-02-11Teaching
How-to
2020-02-11
– 2022-02-05Outsourcing, applied
2021-02-27
– 2022-02-05Visualising geospatial data
Geographic information systems, or, as we in the trade refer to them, “maps”
2016-07-04
– 2022-02-02Teaching mathematics and statistics
2020-02-12
– 2022-01-27E-readers
Very expensive paper substitute that breaks if I drop it
2016-04-11
– 2022-01-20Presentations
Slide decks and other stylised academic dominance displays
2015-06-01
– 2022-01-09Email clients on linux
The constant low-level grind of a long term co-dependent relationship
2020-04-21
– 2022-01-08Diversity as an end in itself
On a rich an vibrant ecosystem of culture and thought
2021-12-13Confidential internet search engines
2021-08-02
– 2021-11-17Diagrams
Of the kind I need, a practical guide to the creation thereof
2015-03-02
– 2021-11-11Nootropics
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
– 2021-11-08Presentation tools
2015-06-01
– 2021-10-26Firefox
2017-04-20
– 2021-10-14Research discovery
Has someone answered that question I have not worked out how to ask yet?
2019-01-22
– 2021-10-13Maths hacks
2016-08-18
– 2021-09-08Web browser hacks
Castor oil for your webs—ts
2017-04-20
– 2021-08-13Image search
2021-08-02Organising a photo collection
2020-01-03
– 2021-08-02Science
History, sociology and philosophy thereof
2017-07-08
– 2021-07-21Organising a music collection
Also guessing missing metadata
2020-01-03
– 2021-06-14The simplest thing
Minimum viable whatever, worse is better, PC-losering, Postel chaos, Burkean engineering
2020-02-03
– 2021-04-27LaTeX Installation
2019-11-19
– 2021-04-19Editors for LaTeX
2019-11-19
– 2021-04-19BibLaTeX
Also BibTeX if you must
2020-09-29
– 2021-03-18Shells
That alternative to GUIs by which you replace clicking-on-the-wrong-thing errors with typing-the-wrong-thing errors
2014-10-03
– 2021-03-05pandoc
An itemised list of the esoteric difficulties involved in bullet points
2019-07-17
– 2021-03-03Office software
A short note to remind myself how to communicate with people who are compelled to use word processors
2021-02-12Browse the internet for me
Introducing modern automation to the ancient crafts of serfing the web and tilling the clickfarm
2016-06-17
– 2021-01-07Tracking experiments in science
2020-10-23
– 2020-11-06Chromium browsers
2017-04-20
– 2020-11-03Clipboard managers
Remembering two things at once
2018-08-09
– 2020-09-21Citation management
On PDFcocking
2014-09-08
– 2020-07-14Web API automation
2020-06-04
– 2020-07-03Low code development
2020-07-03Task launchers
2017-04-10
– 2020-07-02Productivity 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
– 2020-06-05Browser graphics
2015-11-20
– 2020-04-06Ergonomic work
2020-03-27Visualising data
Philosophy and psychology of good plots
2016-07-04
– 2020-03-19Tool discovery
Settling upon an adequate gizmo to identify other adequate gizmos
2020-02-19
– 2020-03-12Faking being on social media
and other parts of the internet too boring to countenance
2016-07-21
– 2020-03-11Yak shaving
2020-02-13Media metadata management and editing
2014-11-27
– 2020-01-03Wikis
plus also CMSs
2020-01-03
– 2020-01-02Esoteric language zoo
2019-12-27Scalable vector graphics
“SVG” to its friends
2019-12-23Webhooks
2019-11-05Build tools for data science
2016-07-27
– 2019-06-18Travel hacks
2019-05-183d data
A grab bag of point clouds, volumetric data and photogrammetry
2019-02-15Meditation
Socially-mandated zoning out
2016-01-05
– 2019-01-22Atom
A text editor I seemed to be using
2017-06-19
– 2018-11-06Flashcards
Spaced repetition systems
2015-01-02
– 2017-04-01 