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Presentation Tools 2015-06-01 – 2021-07-31

Spatial data in R 2021-03-21 – 2021-07-29

VS Code / VS Codium Egg-laying wool milk code editor 2018-01-25 – 2021-07-27

Digital scientific workbooks Literate coding for reality 2014-11-17 – 2021-07-27

Email clients on linux The constant low-level grind of a long term co-dependent relationship 2020-04-21 – 2021-07-26

Email hosts Who handles my mail? 2020-12-30 – 2021-07-25

Code editors The best thing since punchcards 2014-11-11 – 2021-07-22

Science History, sociology and philosophy thereof 2017-07-08 – 2021-07-21

Tolerating 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 – 2021-07-19

Email clients 2020-04-21 – 2021-07-17

Jupyter front end systems UX design by underfunded committee is how I like my data science experience 2017-02-09 – 2021-07-16

How to communicate with humans 2019-04-02 – 2021-07-08

Blogdown Plus other RMarkdown-derived scholarly blogging systems 2020-08-26 – 2021-07-08

Learning stuff, HOWTO Shoving stuff into my brain 2020-06-16 – 2021-07-06

Visualising geospatial data Geographic information systems 2016-07-04 – 2021-07-05

Blogroll The internet of essays 2008-11-02 – 2021-07-02

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 – 2021-06-30

Teaching How-to 2020-02-11 – 2021-06-21

Jupyter The least excruciating compromise between ease of 1) doing data science and 2) seeming to laypeople to be doing data science 2017-02-09 – 2021-06-18

Jupyter UI wrangling What happens inside those notebook cells 2017-02-09 – 2021-06-18

Organising a music collection Also guessing missing metadata 2020-01-03 – 2021-06-14

Fish shell A command line shell that does not think that the problem is you 2019-03-30 – 2021-06-10

Science 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

LaTeX …and ΤeΧ, and ConTeXt and XeTeX and TeXleMeElmo 2014-09-08 – 2021-05-11

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 – 2021-05-08

Diversity, oddness and multiculturalism in humans On clone wars 2020-05-27 – 2021-05-03

The simplest thing Minimum viable whatever, worse is better, PC-losering, Postel chaos, Burkean engineering 2020-02-03 – 2021-04-27

Feed readers Automated content aggregation for an internet designed to inform you rather than distract you 2016-06-29 – 2021-04-24

Web browser hacks Castor oil for your webs—ts 2017-04-20 – 2021-04-22

LaTeX Installation 2019-11-19 – 2021-04-19

Editors for LaTeX 2019-11-19 – 2021-04-19

Tracking my website traffic Optimising scarce attention into the shopping cart widget 2021-01-30 – 2021-04-19

Static sites 2014-12-29 – 2021-04-19

LaTeX symbols, fonts and character sets 2020-02-11 – 2021-04-13

Firefox 2017-04-20 – 2021-04-07

Science; Sociology and institution design for Scientist, falsify thyself 2020-05-17 – 2021-03-30

BibLaTeX Also BibTeX if you must 2020-09-29 – 2021-03-18

Diagrams Of the kind I need, a practical guide to the creation thereof 2015-03-02 – 2021-03-16

Diagramming and visualising graphical models My need for this is conditionally dependent upon my deadline, given the subject matter 2018-03-29 – 2021-03-15

Academic reading workflow The continuing ascendancy of using piles of dead tree products for understanding cutting edge digital informatics 2016-04-11 – 2021-03-12

Shells That alternative to GUIs by which you replace clicking-on-the-wrong-thing errors with typing-the-wrong-thing errors 2014-10-03 – 2021-03-05

Markdown An itemised list of the esoteric difficulties of bullet points 2019-07-17 – 2021-03-03

knitr/RMarkdown 2020-02-02 – 2021-03-03

Terminal session management and multiplexing 2020-06-11 – 2021-03-01

Presentations Slide decks and other stylised academic dominance displays 2015-06-01 – 2021-02-25

Office software A short note to remind myself how to communicate with people who are compelled to use word processors 2021-02-12

E-readers and other over-engineered paper emulators 2016-04-11 – 2021-02-07

Voice transcriptions and speech recognition 2019-01-08 – 2021-01-30

Mathematics without LaTeX 2019-11-19 – 2021-01-30

Playing music on the computer Continuing difficulty thereof 2014-11-26 – 2021-01-07

Browse the internet for me Introducing modern automation to the ancient crafts of serfing the web and tilling the clickfarm 2016-06-17 – 2021-01-07

Email Doing email better, or better, not doing email at all 2015-01-13 – 2020-12-30

VS Code as LaTeX editor 2019-11-11 – 2020-12-17

Data dashboards On assuring the client that you are doing something data-sciency because it looks like in the movies 2020-03-12 – 2020-11-18

Experiment tracking for computation science 2020-10-23 – 2020-11-06

Chromium browsers 2017-04-20 – 2020-11-03

Teaching Statistics With a side order of communicating statistics 2020-02-12 – 2020-10-19

Spreadsheetalikes 2014-10-15 – 2020-10-03

Clipboard managers Remembering two things at once 2018-08-09 – 2020-09-21

Time management Akrasia, gamification, hyperbolic discounting, quantified self and voluntary blackmail 2017-06-18 – 2020-08-30

Outsourcing, applied 0001-01-01 – 2020-08-20

Zotero The adequate citation tool 2019-12-01 – 2020-08-17

Visual Studio Code for prose for pros 2020-06-12 – 2020-08-01

Taking notes Notes on notes on notes 2020-02-17 – 2020-07-23

Recommended workplace habits 2020-07-19

Citation management On PDFcocking 2014-09-08 – 2020-07-14

Web API automation 2020-06-04 – 2020-07-03

Low code development 2020-07-03

Task launchers 2017-04-10 – 2020-07-02

Teamwork 2020-01-26 – 2020-07-02

Research discovery Has someone answered that question you have not worked out how to ask yet? 2019-01-22 – 2020-06-26

Soft methodology of science 2012-01-13 – 2020-06-11

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

Project management With special attention to 2021-03-23 – 2020-06-05

Incentive mechanism design Markets, cakes, karma, and games 2014-09-22 – 2020-05-24

Academic writing workflow Cranking the paper mill in the 21st century 2014-10-04 – 2020-05-18

Markdown editors 2020-05-09

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

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

Yak shaving 2020-02-13

Media metadata management and editing 2014-11-27 – 2020-01-03

Wikis plus also CMSs 2020-01-03 – 2020-01-02

Esoteric language zoo 2019-12-27

Scalable vector graphics “SVG” to its friends 2019-12-23

Maths hacks 2016-08-18 – 2019-11-13

Webhooks 2019-11-05

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

Terminals More realistically, terminal emulators, because anyone who owns an actual working VT102 these days is not using it to do work 2018-10-11

Flashcards Spaced repetition systems 2015-01-02 – 2017-04-01