Building LaTeX documents on GitHub
Do you have LaTeX projects on GitHub? Ever wondered how to get GitHub to build them automatically? Here’s how I do it.
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Finding a fisherman’s fastest path from shore to boat
When tutoring high-school students in maths and physics, I sometimes stumble across interesting problems. In this scenario, a fisherman seeks to determine t...
German Perl/Raku Workshop 2026 (Berlin): a report
Last week, the 28th edition of the German Perl/Raku Workshop took place in Berlin. It was great to see some familiar faces (as well as some new ones!) to di...
Avoiding empty strings in non-nullable Django string-based model fields
Trying to save a null value to a non-nullable field in Django will raise an IntegrityError, right? Well, not always. It turns out that Django saves string-...
StreetComplete: Pokémon Go for map geeks
A few years ago, while recuperating from our at that time “favourite” dreaded lurgy,1 I stumbled across StreetComplete, an Android app to update OpenStreetMa...