Welcome to the year 2025! We are all still waiting for our flying cars, but if you don’t like the indistinguishable-from-human talking AIs you got instead, you can have this traditional yearly transition blog post here to keep you busy in the meantime. The Seal Point Lighthouse in Cape St. Francis| cpbotha.net
DS104: Major sunk cost, deeply unhappy with this one even though I invested four or five hours in it. Rubbish.The temperature has suddenly dropped. Only four weeks ago we were on a beach in Menorca and now it’s four layers and neoprene gloves. It came out of nowhere. I had my first commute yesterday where my fingers and nose were numb. I don’t mind it while cycling but it’s the fumbling with keys and cards when you can’t feel anything that drives me crazy. I miss the anticyclonic gloo...| The Bounding Box
A blog on history and technology by Jason A. Heppler.| Jason Heppler weblog
Background Transitioning from biblatex to bibtex with biber for sphinx I recently started a set of notes using jupyter-book. However, in the process I ran into a horrific bibliography related SNAFU. sphinx in its infinite wisdom only accepts a rather odd subset of bibtex. I have been happily exporting my giant bibliography with Zotero (and better bibtex) exporting my references as biblatex while sphinx started choking dreadfully. This post describes attempts to reconcile the biblatex sources ...| rgoswami.me
Background One of the main reasons to use orgmode is definitely to get a better note taking workflow. Closely related to blogging or writing, the ideal note workflow is one which lets you keep a bunch of throwaway ideas and also somehow have access to them in a coherent manner. This will be a long post, and it is a work-in-progress, so, keep that in mind. Since this is mainly me1 work-shopping my technique, the philosophy will come in a later post probably.| rgoswami.me
