Conway in BashI’ve added a new version to my venerable Polyglot Conway project, this time as a good old Bash script, a version bootstrapped with the help of ChatGPT.
Pandoc Filters in LuaYou might remember that I’m using Pandoc to convert entries of this blog into PDF files. While doing that, I started using Lua filters for Pandoc to drive and customize the conversion process. This article explains some of those filters.
Screenkey for LinuxScreenkey is a program for Linux that can be used during presentations or webcasts to show the keystrokes you press to the audience, overlaid on top of the applications or systems being demoed.
SheffieldOn Saturday, October 20th, 1979, around three o’clock in the afternoon, Marina Pueyrredón, distant great-great-granddaughter of some hero of the independence wars, sat with her friend Inés drinking mate in the balcony of her comfortable apartment overlooking Las Heras Avenue. It was a sunny day, outside temperature twenty-two degrees Celsius, humidity eighty percent, with fifteen percent chance of rain in the evening.
Lister 2.0.0I’ve talked about my Rust project “lister” for the first time in this blog around 2 years ago, when I explained how to generate PDF files from individual Hugo entries. In the meantime I’ve enhanced it quite a bit, and this article provides some information about the latest version.
How to Get a Standing Ovation as a Conference SpeakerI keep on attending otherwise interesting talks and conference sessions being flushed down the toilet by appalling deliveries. This is my plea to you: please, please, PLEASE: if you have to speak in public, follow these rules to ensure a standing ovation at the end of your talk.
HelixI’ve tried the Helix editor and, to be honest, I’m split. I have three specific things to say, though.
Retrocomputing Emulators on Your BrowserIn the past I’ve been explaining how to use various emulators to run old operating systems on your Linux box; today, we’re going to use a much simpler approach: just click on a link, and run them on your browser!