Fixing a fifteen-year-old curve fit bug
The backwards compatibility of Perl software is wonderful. That’s why it’s all the more jarring when you find a package that doesn’t work. This is the stor...
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Resurrecting tmux sessions after restart
Have you ever wished your tmux sessions could magically spring back to life after having had to restart your computer? With tmux-resurrect, they can.
Car crash calculation counsel
A trip to the library ended up being more eventful and instructive than planned. This is the story of how a bit of physics led me to look deeper into a car ...
Test that forking code!
Not only should the final commit in a pull request patch series pass all its tests but also each commit back to where the pull request branched from main. A...
Throwing a javelin and finding where it lands
As part of tutoring physics and maths to high school students, I sometimes write up deep-dive explanations of questions arising during lessons. Below I disc...