2019-07-28 16:39
I’ve been pretty busy lately, and although reading doesn’t stop, my writing sometimes takes a hiatus.NOTE: The themes are varied, and some links below are affiliate links. Data e… Read More
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2019-07-08 19:52
NOTE: The themes are varied, and some links below are affiliate links. History, haskell. Expect a similar wide range in the future as well. You can check all my weekly readings by checking t… Read More
2019-07-07 11:37
Table of contents Problem I'm trying to solveLooking for axis metricsThe map AnchorsLinks and coloursEmpirical map divisionQuick overviewCuriositiesQuestions and further ideas What other app… Read More
2019-06-25 18:02
Photo by Nik Shuliahin on UnsplashNOTE: The themes are varied, and some links below are affiliate links. Software engineering, history, planning, data engineering. Expect a si… Read More
2019-06-17 15:24
NOTE: This week is a bit light on technical content because I was attending Scala Days 2019 in Lausanne and I had enough with the talks. NOTE: The themes are varied, and some links belo… Read More
2019-06-10 19:18
Photo by Roman Mager on UnsplashNOTE: The themes are varied, and some links below are affiliate links. Wardley mapping, data engineering and big data, maths. Expect a similar… Read More
2019-06-04 18:34
Tom Gauld (for New Scientist, from his blog, sorry!)NOTE: The themes are varied, and some links below are affiliate links. Data engineering, adtech, ZIO, Rust, writing, some miscellaneous st… Read More
2019-05-26 09:48
Photo by Darius Soodmand on UnsplashNOTE: The themes are varied, and some links below are affiliate links. Data engineering, adtech, functional programing, formal specificatio… Read More
2019-05-21 21:41
If you have have known me for any length of time you'll know I write mostly Python and Scala lately (Rust is getting into the mix slowly). And you should know, I am a heavy emacs user. I hav… Read More
2019-05-19 17:21
NOTE: The themes are varied, and some links below are affiliate links. Functional programming, adtech, history. Expect a similar wide range in the future as well. You can check all my weekly… Read More
2019-05-12 22:39
Photo by Zsolt Palatinus on UnsplashNOTE: The themes are varied, and some links below are affiliate links. Big data and data engineering, metallurgy, Rust (not the metallurgy… Read More
2019-05-09 15:27
Photo by thom masat on UnsplashAs you may know, I’m a heavy emacs user, and a frequent Scala developer. Scala tooling for emacs was restricted to mostly ensime until rec… Read More
2019-04-28 15:39
NOTE: The themes are varied, and some links below are affiliate links. Software engineering, Spark, history, python. Expect a similar wide range in the future as well. You can check all my w… Read More
2019-04-18 09:40
NOTE: The themes are varied, and some links below are affiliate links. Software engineering, psychology, generative art. Expect a similar wide range in the future as well. You can check all… Read More
2019-04-07 17:37
You know how you slip once on a habit and everything goes crazy? Well, I’ve been 4 weeks without writing these, so here’s the accumulated reading from 4 weeks. Because, even if I… Read More
2019-03-04 20:11
NOTE: The themes are varied, and some links below are affiliate links. Software engineering, formal methods, fraud, Scala. Expect a similar wide range in the future as well. You can check al… Read More
2019-02-26 21:59
NOTE: The themes are varied, and some links below are affiliate links. Formal methods, Scala, productivity. Expect a similar wide range in the future as well. You can check all my weekly re… Read More
2019-02-19 22:47
Photo by Annie Spratt on UnsplashA couple of days ago I installed Hive from Homebrew on my Mac. Sadly, when I tried to run the hive command, I got the weird-looking errorExce… Read More
2019-02-17 18:16
NOTE: The themes are varied, and some links below are affiliate links. Softwareengineering, adtech, psychology, python. Expect a similar wide range in the future as well. You can check all m… Read More
2019-02-10 21:38
NOTE: The themes are varied, and some links below are affiliate links. Software/data engineering, psychology, formal systems. Expect a similar wide range in the future as well. You can check… Read More
2019-02-05 22:04
Sorry for the delay, Sunday was my birthday (also, Elmo’s, and The Day The Music Died as well) and I spent the day without access to a computer.NOTE: The themes are varied. Software/da… Read More
2019-01-27 19:01
NOTE: The themes are varied. Software/data engineering, history, formal systems. Expect a similar wide range in the future as well. You can check all weekly readings by checking the tag her… Read More
2019-01-20 15:32
NOTE: The themes are varied. Software/data engineering, languages, writing. Expect a similar wide range in the future as well. You can check all weekly readings by checking the tag here.Good… Read More
2019-01-14 00:04
If you know me, you'll know I have.a very extensive reading list. I keep it in Pocket, and is part of my to do stored in Things3. It used to be very large (hovering around 230 items since A… Read More
2019-01-01 14:00
Note some links below are Amazon affiliate links. Buy at your own risk 🤣WorkDuring the first half of this year I have been leading a migration to Spark of several systems, one r… Read More
2018-12-31 15:07
RequirementsBe a user of Things3, and heavy on Getting Things DoneShortcuts app The shortcuts Weekly Review and Update weekly review hashDrafts or Bear app (either c… Read More
2018-05-05 00:40
This week I have been working a lot with a relatively large dataset on a Spark shell. It was a graph with 1 billion nodes and 2 billion edges that I wanted to analyse with GraphFrames (the s… Read More
2018-04-29 13:38
Even though I have been a long time user of oh-my-zsh on zsh (moved from plain bash to zsh like 10 years ago), I have been very minimal on my use of its theme capabilities. I have used the d… Read More
2018-04-15 20:23
A subtitle to this post could be More yak shavingA few days go I played a bit with a naive implementation of Bloom filters in Python. I wanted to time them against just checking whether a fi… Read More
2018-03-25 10:34
Or, how I made my first contribution to coursier[trace] Stack trace suppressed: run last service/*:update for the full output.[error] (service/*:update) coursier.ResolutionException: 1 downl… Read More
2018-03-09 22:47
Down into some net rabbit hole, I stumbled upon a review of Work Clean. I chuckled: a productivity book, philosophizing about how cook’s approach to preparation (mise en p… Read More
2018-03-02 16:47
Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts. From Processing.orgI had always wanted to play with Processing (af… Read More
2018-02-14 14:28
A few months ago I stumbled into the problem of Akka logging, specifically ClassNotFoundException when using akka.event.slf4j.Slf4jLoggingFilter, just by following the details of the Logging… Read More
2018-02-07 22:27
Almost two months ago (time sure flies) I attended for the second time the conference Scala eXchange, one of the largest Scala conferences in the world, and which happens to be 1 tube stop f… Read More
2018-01-06 14:31
I’m trying to make these posts a tradition (even if a few days late). I thought 2016 had been a really weird and fun year, but 2017 has beaten it easily. And I only hope 2… Read More
2017-11-19 16:42
It would probably be an understatement to say I'm not a gamer. Last console I got was a Game Boy, 22 years ago (IIRC). Never got a gaming PC. I have 4 games on my Mac, and one is ASCII based… Read More
2017-08-20 17:30
I'm not sure how useful this Docker "trick" is, since it happens in a very niche situation. At work, we have several instances running a suite of Docker containers, with some non-trivial amo… Read More
2017-05-07 08:40
A few weeks ago I needed to parse configuration files in Scala for a Spark project and decided to use PureConfig. It is incredibly lean to use, needing minimal boilerplate. I recommend you c… Read More
2016-12-31 13:34
Some of the links are affiliate links to Amazon. I only recommend what I use.At lastFebruary. Finished my PhD dissertation, so can add Dr. in front of my name when ordering a Gatwick Express… Read More
2016-11-22 17:04
I've been looking for the perfect, really portable Bluetooth keyboard for several years. Typing on the go, or having a truly mobile office in your pockets is a really interesting concept for… Read More
2016-10-31 20:40
This has been the first time I could attend the Apache Kafka meetup in London. Previous meetings had me in Barcelona or flying. First realisation: it is a surprisingly crowded… Read More
2016-09-11 15:34
At Affectv we use a wide range of editors: Sublime, Atom, Emacs, Pycharm, IntelliJ... Actually only two people use the same editor! As such, from time to time I see things in other people's… Read More
2016-08-07 20:42
A couple of days ago I attended (first time I managed in almost 6 months) the London chapter of the Emacs Church (also known as the local meetup for emacs lovers). In this event we were show… Read More
2016-04-30 18:24
Started a long time ago. It was supposed to be about a phenomenon leading to chaos: separatrix splitting. I got a research grant. I worked on holomorphic dynamics. Travelled. Presented. Too… Read More
2015-11-02 22:33
Or, destiny is cruelBack in the days of yore, when I was switching between my Windows machine and a Linux machine, I remember having SyncTeX active in my Windows machine. It was a wonderful… Read More
2015-06-19 15:00
Thermometers are already hitting 29°C with temperature feelings around 32 or 33. It’s this time of the year when I need cold drinks to keep me alive. Iâ&e&hell…Read More
2015-06-14 18:12
I’ve always loved maps. I guess it goes well with liking drawing and maths, there’s a very deep connection (the pun is intended) between the subjects. A… Read More
2015-04-13 09:29
A few weeks ago I started trying a pre-beta release of Dyalog APL (now available as "full beta") for Mac. Fellow Mac users, looks like we are in for a treat after so much time of only having… Read More
2015-03-08 11:30
The links to Amazon and The Book Depository are affiliate links. If you purchase like 50 copies I may afford a coffee :DFrom FlickrIt all started after reading If you can’… Read More
2014-01-02 19:37
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2013-11-02 17:29
A few months ago (woah, so long already!) I had an impulse buy: I purchased a circular slide rule from Etsy. It was cheap, and I had always wanted one, so... I just bought it (a neat additio… Read More
2013-09-19 14:43
A few days ago I found myself with a problem. I wanted a reddit button in one of our websites, and our technical guy wanted it to be asynchronous. After a little poking around and deciding… Read More
2013-08-19 20:39
It was about time. Something like 3 years ago I redesigned mostlymaths.net, just after purchasing the domain. Cleaned the design... But left lots of cruft on the side.Back when I started wri… Read More
2013-05-22 16:33
Via pixelfrenzy@flickrBeware! The software described here is just for personal and very light use. Its use beyond purely recreational value is against Google Search terms of service, and I d… Read More
2013-04-21 19:30
Note: It's best to open the videos in full screen. Also I have added a few line breaks or readability in the code snippets that will make them not work correctly. It's not hard to… Read More
2013-03-09 17:31
Text editors. You hate them or love them. Praise them with religious zeal, and attack them with the same power. I've been an emacs user for the last 8 years, getting as deep as I could witho… Read More
2013-02-22 17:28
The links to Practical Vim are affiliate links to Amazon. Beware!So... last January I was in a flight to London, preparing for an intense, 12 days course on traditional shoemaking (English h… Read More
2012-10-01 16:41
If you want to read a quick overview of this in Spanish, check my post about GTM at DoctorMetrics.Google has just unveiled a new tool: Google Tag Manager. I have spent a few hours playing wi… Read More
2012-09-30 08:28
The Octocat, Github's logoIt's been almost 6 years since I used some kind of revision control system. Back then I wasn't sure about which I wanted to use... I settled with RCS, the father o… Read More
2012-09-23 09:02
Glenda, the Plan 9 bunny. Image copyrighted by Lucent Technologies, hosted by Wikimedia Commons and posted here for information purposesA few months ago I wrote about how I'm using… Read More
2012-09-09 19:26
'Of course I don't have to do this,' one middle-aged man said, carefully cleaning the table with a damp cloth. He put the cloth in a little pouch, sat down beside him. 'But look; t… Read More
2012-08-01 21:21
Sensitive information blankedThe gnusnotes.el package, with delete and edit capabilities is now available in the marmalade package repository. This post just explains why, how and what (code… Read More
2012-07-23 11:55
From FlickrNo, this is not a tutorial (but I do have written the standard steps to learn below). I began learning to juggle very recently. I just want to answer a possible "why"?I've always… Read More
2012-07-07 18:50
From The Design of the Emacs LogoI've been thinking about getting a new Macbook lately (my heart and wallet were divided among a 11" Air or a 15" Retina Pro). My 4-year old Macbook (Early 20… Read More
2012-06-12 13:10
Last week I wrote about whatlanguageis.com, my first simple try at creating a Django powered site. How did it came to be?In the last few months have been writing and thinking about several i… Read More
2012-06-07 12:55
Lately I've been coding a little more Python than usual, some twitter API stuff, some data crunching code. The other day I was thinking how I could detect the language a twitter user w… Read More
2012-06-04 19:15
Beware, in what follows I rant. All figures come from Wikipedia or similar and are expressed with many zeroes and also in written form to make clear what a billion may be.If you are a regula… Read More
2012-03-27 14:47
CortesÃa de ShanidarPuedes leer la versión inglesa de este post aquÃ: Learn to remember everything: the memory palace methodEn este post os voy a en… Read More
2012-03-21 19:01
Caveat: some of the links appearing in this post are affiliate links to Amazon.com If you buy anything from them, I get a small commission. As always, I only link to stuff I like. If you wan… Read More
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