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

Science; Sociology and institution design for Scientist, research thyself 2020-05-17 – 2020-06-05

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

Web API automation 2020-06-04

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

Jupyter The least excruciating compromise between 1) irreproducible science, and 2) spooking your luddite colleagues 2017-02-09 – 2020-06-03

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

Teamwork 2020-01-26 – 2020-05-27

Taking notes Notes on notes on notes 2020-02-17 – 2020-05-26

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

Research discovery Has someone answered that question you have not worked out how to ask yet? 2019-01-22 – 2020-05-07

Zotero The adequate citation tool 2019-12-01 – 2020-05-04

Clipboard managers Remembering two things at once 2018-08-09 – 2020-04-30

LaΤeΧ …and ΤeΧ, and ConTeXt and XeTeX and TeXleMeElmo 2014-09-08 – 2020-04-29

VS Code as LaΤeΧ editor 2019-11-11 – 2020-04-29

Visual Studio Code/ VS Codium Egg-laying wool milk text editor 2018-01-25 – 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

Feed readers/content aggregators 2016-06-29 – 2020-04-21

Academic publishing 2015-07-07 – 2020-04-16

Journalism, normative 2020-01-26 – 2020-04-09

Browser graphics 2015-11-20 – 2020-04-06

Citation management On PDFcocking 2014-09-08 – 2020-04-05

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

Soft methodology of science 2012-01-13 – 2020-03-02

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

Organising a music collection Also guessing missing metadata 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

Text editors The best thing since punchcards 2014-11-11 – 2019-10-22

Spreadsheetalikes 2014-10-15 – 2019-10-19

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

How to communicate with humans 2019-04-02 – 2019-04-20

3d data A grab bag of point clouds, volumetric data and photogrammetry 2019-02-15

Task launchers 2017-04-10 – 2019-01-23

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

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 – 2018-10-24

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

Visualising spatial data 2016-07-04