I have a longer story brewing, but in this post I want to briefly announce the “Galmon.eu unofficial Weekly Performance Report”. This is a blog post version of an earlier Twitter thread. I’m very proud to present the first full Galmon.eu Weekly Galileo Report! And the good news is: it was a good week with very...

An explanation from first principles of this much-misunderstood principle of statical inference.

Improving Github’s New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine. Sigh. I was planning on recreating the original Github layout with custom CSS but...

On April 16th, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter from jail, where he was imprisoned for marching against segregation, and Jason Pamental made a rather lovely typeset version. In fact, Jason’s newsletter is a constant wellspring of lovely typeset things. Rereading Dr King’s letter though it’s shocking that...