Foggy walks and Irish horses

If you don’t take whitespace into account. My friend challenged me to find the shortest solution to a certain Leetcode-style problem in Python. They were generous enough to let me use whitespace for free, so that the code stays readable. So that’s exactly what we’ll abuse to encode any Python program in 24 bytes,...

Introducing ChiCurate: Your Personalized ArXiv Feed In the fast-paced world of scientific research, staying up-to-date with the latest publications is crucial. However, with hundreds of papers published daily on ArXiv, finding the most relevant ones for your research can be like searching for a needle in a haystack....

A manager may micromanage a subordinate because they most probably don’t trust the person or they have control issues (which also relate to trust). The manager doesn’t believe that the task will be done right or in the way that they would do it to high standards. Many managers feel that they are responsible for the...

There's nowt as queer as folk Back in the mid-80's when I was young and impressionable, a relic told me "gay people are unnatural and disgusting". I think the relic was concerned I might 'catch gay' from listening to David Bowie and reading Bruce Chatwin. Michael, my boss at work was gay and unlike the relic he...

A la vez que el termómetro Tuya del que hablé en este post compré una bombilla RGB con ZigBee para una lámpara que tengo en una mesita. Algo casi más decorativo que práctico, pero ya que me regalaron la lámpara quería darle uso. La bombilla preferí conectarla al hub de Philips Hue en lugar de al de Dirigera. Sobre...

A few weeks ago I've released an extremely simple note-taking app called Textpod. I just wanted a "one big-ass text file" kind of thing, but with file attachments and link archiving. The whole idea is that it's basically a text file with minor magic sprikled on top. The reception has been great! Seems like many...