There is a hilarious quote from Aphyr in Hexing the technical interview:
Vidrun, born of the sea-wind through the spruce
Vidrun, green-tinged offshoot of my bough, joy and burden of my life
Vidrun, fierce and clever, may our clan’s wisdom be yours:
Never read Hacker News
I fed it into DALL·E and it gave me this awesomeness:
Today I discovered Newton’s own annotated copy of his Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica.
I just needed to make a note of this unironic statement which I read here:
Wow. On Wikipedia you can download a 1515 Latin translation of the Almagest: Claudius Ptolemaeus, Almagestum, 1515.
I was able to read this file on my Debian workstation after installing the package djview4.
I suppose it’s a poorly kept secret that now I’m live on Patreon. My Patreon page is here: https://www.patreon.com/JohnElliotV
I would like to stress that I do my blog and my YouTube channel for love and I do *not* expect anyone to send money, so please don’t feel pressured to do so. <3
If you have any thoughts on the Patreon page or how my YouTube channel is configured I would be happy to hear from you, particularly if you have suggestions about how to improve things.
Every now and then I find myself over on the C2 wiki. Today it was here:
I did some creative writing, inspired by a new friend: The Circle.
Some diagram generators to check out:
Today I came across some tech writing courses available from Google: Overview of technical writing courses.