Auf Deutsch
Ich dachte, dass ich etwas auf Deutsch schreiben versuchen könnte. Ich verwende keinen Übersetzer, sondern nur ein Wörterbuch (aber für nur wenige Wörter). Ich hoffe, dass mein Deutsch nicht zu schlecht ist. Ich kann nicht zu viel sagen, denn ich weiß nicht zu viel Deutsch, aber ich werde versuchen. Ich lernte zuerst an Duolingo für…
MIT Splash 2023
I completely forgot to say anything about it here, but I went to Boston for MIT Splash this year. Boston was a really nice city (very walkable!), and I loved MIT’s campus. Along with the fact that their aerospace program is one of the best, that cements MIT as my top pick for my undergrad…
Hungerford Algebra
I recently found Hungerford’s Algebra on Springer Link (I have a SUNet ID through OHS, which gives me access to Springer Link, JSTOR, ScienceDirect, etc.) It’s finals season at OHS right now, but I look forward to reading it over break.
Monaspace
GitHub Next recently unveiled Monaspace, a ‘superfamily’ of monospace fonts for code. It comes with five fonts. These are my very uninformed first impressions of them, along with their description from the website: The fonts have three variables: font size, weight, and width. There are about 640k combinations, according to GitHub. All of the fonts…
ocw-server
I’ve found lots of great materials on MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), but it can sometimes be annoying to manage them all. So I created ocw-server, written in TypeScript with Deno. It allows you to download OCW content and start a server that serves all of it.
pdf2htmlEX
I had multiple PDFs that I was trying to convert to ePub files (Apple Books handles it better on Mac). One of them was just made up of images (scanned book), so I was able to convert it to a series of images and that to an ePub. However, the others had complex formatting and…
Firefox: Inline PDFs
I highly recommend setting browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline to true in about:config if you use Firefox. When opening PDFs, it displays the file instead of downloading by default. It’s made my day much less frustrating.
deywós
I noticed that the Latin word deus and the Telugu word దేవుడు (dēvuḍu) sounded sort of similar. I wondered if they were somehow related, since even though Telugu is Dravidian, it does take a lot of influence from Sanskrit, which, along with Latin, is Indo-European. It turns out that they’re related. Proto-Indo-European has the word…
Nikon Small World 2023
The Nikon Small World microphotography contest is full of great photos. My personal favorites, in no particular order, are: Venomous fangs of a small tarantula: Sphagnum moss with two air bubbles on the sample: Carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea) head and antenna:
Dark Mode Fixed!
For a while, dark mode on my site wasn’t working that well. Turns out that WordPress was, for some reason, using !important on one of the background color rules. I was able to fix it with some CSS: