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Normally, when you take a picture of something too bright, you get bloom: An all-consuming brightness that plunges everything around it into pure whiteness.

I am an amateur, as in "lover of", photography.

There is no other media more immersive to me than reading.

In my recent post about appreciation for open source software, I mentioned that we should praise our open source heros more often.

About a year ago, I started working on a big comparison study between a bunch of scientific algorithms.

I recently released my first-ever piece of commercial software, a plugin for the X-Plane flight simulator.

A month ago, org-journal learned to deal with future journal entries.

Personal email is dead.

/The variable $var appears to change size on every loop iteration.

I want to consume the news, both because it is genuinely relevant for my work, and because conversations about news are part of my social life.

I keep a simple journal in org-journal: One text file per day, in org-mode.

A while ago, I scratched an old itch and wrote my own static site generator, called org-static-blog.

Three years ago, I had enough of all the static site generators out there.

In the last few months, I have created three notable programming projects: RunForrest saves function call graphs to disk and runs them in parallel processes; TimeUp creates backups using rsync and keeps different numbers of hourly, daily, and weekly backu…

(This blog post was changed since my initial strategy of disabling the lockfile didn't work.

Dropbox deleted some of my favorite photos.

In late 2016, I took a short ferry flight to a small island in the area, and rekindled my love for aviation.

How to install Python?

The official website states that you need to download Emacs from a nearby GNU mirror.

Here's a thing I do: I write open source libraries that solve my problems.

Traditionally, text editor themes are all about colors, right?

The second conference I attended this year was the EuroScipy 2017 in Erlangen.

I am not much of a web programmer.

This is part three of a three-part series on the native audio APIs for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

This is part two of a three-part series on the native audio APIs for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

This is part one of a three-part series on the native audio APIs for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

A short while ago, I spent a few weeks collecting and evaluating various implementations of speech analysis algorithms for my current work.

Why is it, that I find Matlab to be a fine teaching tool and a fine tool for solving engineering problems, but at the same time, extremely cumbersome for my own work?

Installing Python packages used to be a pain.

For a long time, I was afraid of picking up Soma, since it came from the developers who did Amnesia.

In a recent project, I tried to parse MATLAB code.

I like boring games.

A few months ago, I talked about the performance of calling Matlab from Python.

For a few years now, I have been teaching programming courses using notebooks.

Sometimes, you just have to use C code.

When publishing papers or articles, I want my plots to integrate with the text surrounding them.

What does quality code look like?

I've been playing a lot of indie games lately.

Among Others, by Jo Walton I don't usually enjoy fantasy novels and their romantic escapism.

For my latest experiments, I needed to run both Python functions and Matlab functions as part of the same program.

As of Matlab 2014b, Matlab includes a Python module for calling Matlab code from Python.

The Mac.

On my last vacation, I have taken a bunch of pictures, and a bunch of video.

They say that all arithmetic operations in Numpy behave like their element-wise cousins in Matlab.

Recently, I was working on a dynamic programming algorithm that involves a lot of number crunching in nested loops.

So I wanted to work with audio files in Matlab.

As per the latest Stackoverflow Developer Survey, Matlab is one of the most dreaded tools out there.

Early on in Pillars of Eternity, you are tasked to kill one of two characters: Either you kill King Rethoric, who executed many innocent people, or you kill Rolsc, the leader of the rebellion.

Julia is a high-level dynamic programming language designed to address the requirements of high-performance numerical and scientific computing while also being effective for general purpose programming.

Every year, between Christmas and New Year's Eve, a very special convention is held: The Chaos Computer Club hosts the Chaos Communication Congress.