Misha Brukman

Dual botting Ubuntu 26.04 with Windows 11, step-by-step.

Instead of screenshots (which are blurry at higher zoom levels), extract charts and diagrams as vectors from PDF to SVG using my new open-source app.

Creating custom list marker styles with CSS, and figuring out browser fallbacks.

If something is growing at a rate of 5% per year, how many years will it take until it doubles?

How to copy and paste on the command-line in macOS and Linux.

Sharing my solutions to the Virginia Tech Regional Math Contest problems.

A poem by Robert Frost

Let’s look at how we can solve the quadratic equation without using the memorized formula, and then derive the quadratic formula itself from scratch using our method of solving the quadratic equation.

Evaluation of KaTeX and MathJax, along with client-side rendering as well as static (server-side) rendering, trade-offs and feasibility, and a comparison of rendering and maintainability of the various options.

Typography, typefaces, fonts, and their various licenses.

How I wrote the earlier post “running decade-old games in containers” and generated the incremental file diffs of the Dockerfile and runner.sh script.

How I got decade-old (32-bit) games running in containers on 64-bit Linux, step-by-step, and what I learned along the way.

How to add a REPL (read-eval-print-loop) to any CLI tool.

How to improve Go testability with overridable methods, similar to OO-style programming.

My personal Git shortcuts and how you can streamline your own Git workflows.

How to get started in learning Japanese, starting with hiragana and katakana.

Configuring Zsh to support both Emacs and Vim key bindings.

Differences between ‘disclaimer’ and ‘disclosure’ and proper usage of each.

Configuring Linux and Windows dual-boot, trade-offs between UEFI and BIOS.

Configuring Evoluent VerticalMouse 4 on Linux with X Window System.

Why and how to license your open-source projects and how to encourage other project owners to do the same.

How to include code from external files into blog posts.

/bin/bash, /bin/tcsh, and more shells!

How to switch the theme of a Hugo-generated blog.

How to build a statically-generated site using Hugo.

Restarting my blogging after a long hiatus; how I got started with static site generators.