lee-phillips.org/kittyslime "Slime Without Plugins Using Kitty" Slime plugins let you send code from your editor directly to a repl for evaluation. If you use the #Kitty terminal emulator, you can use its built-in features to replace these plugins.

lwn.net/Articles/108... "Kitty Chases the Mouse" My article about the legendary terminal emulator for #linux, #macos, and #BSD

The “In Our Time” episode is quite good.

Marcus Chown@marcuschown.bsky.social · 2d ago

Thanks for pointing this out. And here is my review of the Emmy Noether biography, “Einstein’s Tutor”, which appeared in Prospect Magazine marcuschown.com/article/the-...

“Palestine Action” is a terror group operating in the UK. It has attacked a policeman with a sledgehammer and destroyed millions of dollars of military equipment. Supporting this group can get you 14 years in prison.

This book is quite good.

Gary Longsine 📱@arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another book that will help you understand the modern world is, CHAOS: Making a New Science, by James Gleick. Complex systems, like economies or ecosystems or climate, don't always behave in alignment with our intuitions. archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

blog.plover.com/book/elbow-s... "Seven books I keep close because I love them" This sampling by Mark Dominus will definitely have an effect on my future #book buying and #reading.

pandoc.org/twenty-years... "Twenty Years of Pandoc" I recently¹ wrote about Pandoc², the universal document converter. I use it every day for generating the content of my website and for preparing articles for publication. 1 lwn.net/Articles/106... 2 pandoc.org

pandoc.org/twenty-years... "Twenty Years of Pandoc" I recently¹ wrote about Pandoc², the universal document converter. I use it every day for generating the content of my website and for preparing articles for publication. 1 lwn.net/Articles/106... 2 pandoc.org

I’m going to make it through this.

blog.plover.com/book/elbow-s... "Seven books I keep close because I love them" This sampling by Mark Dominus will definitely have an effect on my future #book buying and #reading.

These guys are about as anti-American as they come. Fuck 'em.

Latina Immigrant🐸 #NoKings🚫👑@jasmine29.bsky.social · 6d ago

ICE in Inwood, NY

Me, too.

Paul Halpern@phalpern.bsky.social · 4d ago

My pledge as a writer: I am personally responsible for all of the archival and online research that goes into my writings and posts. I don't use any form of artificial intelligence in my research and writing. I verify everything, and if shown to be wrong, immediately correct! #BookSky #writing

Why Fortran lives: www.matecdev.com/posts/why-fo... He shares my conclusion: #Fortran is great for high performance computing, but #julialang is even better for new #HPC projects.

This book is quite good.

Gary Longsine 📱@arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another book that will help you understand the modern world is, CHAOS: Making a New Science, by James Gleick. Complex systems, like economies or ecosystems or climate, don't always behave in alignment with our intuitions. archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

Why Fortran lives: www.matecdev.com/posts/why-fo... He shares my conclusion: #Fortran is great for high performance computing, but #julialang is even better for new #HPC projects.

A better way to read Hacker News: hn-ai.org

The core genius of the [neo]vim editor: medium.com/@mkozlows/wh...

Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim

Learning the lesson of vi

medium.com

I’m going to make it through this.

Delighted to announce that Nobel laureate P. James E. Peebles has endorsed THE GREAT ATOM DEBATE, praising it as 'a fascinating account of the roles Ernst Mach and Ludwig Boltzmann played in the establishment of modern physics.' Now available for preorder: amazon.com/gp/product/1... #BookSky

A better way to read Hacker News: hn-ai.org

#Julialang and #Python: Slowly Converging lee-phillips.org/juliabook/tr...

I just released an update to OptimalTransportNetworks.jl (github.com/OptimalTrans...) providing performance improvements through hand-coded gradients and hessians. I also published a new web-application – the Transport Network Optimizer – available at otn.sebastiankrantz.com. #Julialang #DataScience

lee-phillips.org/spanishtips.html Tips for Learning #Spanish for #English Speakers.

Happily using #julialang on my Android phone. It potentially takes the place of an infinity of “apps”.

Emily Wilson on Nolan’s “Odyssey”: “I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... I thought the movie failed, despite some spectacular visuals, because it lacked the emotional impact of the poem. Wilson does an expert job of explaining exactly why.

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

lrb.co.uk

“Catching the moon at the right time with Julia” jonathanbieler.github.io/blog/moon_an... Wonderful article showing how to use Julia to catch the Moon at good moments for photography, #astronomy #photography #julialang

The danger of non-free software to #science: lwn.net/Articles/102... #physics #science

Ha. I’ve mentioned Bell’s not winning the Prize in a couple of articles but had not heard this.

Paul Halpern@phalpern.bsky.social · last wk.

When Jocelyn Bell, who discovered pulsars, did not win the 1974 Nobel Prize for the discovery of pulsars, and the prize went to her research supervisor Antony Hewish, critics dubbed it the 'No-Bell' prize. #Science #astronomy #physics

@drskyskull.bsky.social says: “This was a fascinating and fun book to read...and it is good to see a book that lays out the important roles she had in #physics and #mathematics and shines a light on her remarkable personality.” skullsinthestars.com/2025/07/09/e... Buy: amzn.to/3YZZB4W

Einstein’s Tutor, by Lee Phillips

Book 20 for my 2025 goal of 30 books for the year! As is now default for me, my link to the book is through my bookshop dot org affiliate account. I’ve been gearing up lately t…

skullsinthestars.com

Also lee-phillips.org/humanmade/ from someone without your artistic talent.

Nicholas Kole@nicholaskole.bsky.social · 2w ago

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