Many software engineers step back when the time comes to write documentation or a report. Although most communication in life happens in writing via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc., we avoid writing structured text. Amid the quick conversations in chat apps or social media, our writing becomes more shallow, along with our...

3D Printing Practical Items, Overview of A Process I’ve been using OpenSCAD to create things to 3D-print for years now, and it can be a simple and fulfilling process to build up something useful from simple geometric primitives. OpenSCAD is a “programmer’s CAD” where the models are written up in text, a bit like a...

Alberto Manguel in The Library at Night: One of the lost plays of Sophocles is The Loves of Achilles, copies of which must have perished one after another, century after century, destroyed in pillaging and fires or excluded from library catalogues because perhaps the librarian deemed the play of little interest or...