• ### Mini vMac with colour (on Linux)

As I posted some time ago, Mini vMac now supports colour display when emulating a Macintosh II. As I discovered today, however, this isn't as simple as it seems, and many links have gone dead since I last tried, so here are my notes… »

• ### A Comparison of English Translations of ‘A Cruel Angel's Thesis’

Disclaimer: I know zero Japanese. When I see ‘残酷’, I read ‘cánkù’. This post is based on the generously-licenced work of Wiktionary and others.

残酷な天使のように Zankoku na tenshi no you ni
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• ### Breaking URLs anywhere in (Lua)LaTeX (even in itemize, enumerate, adjustwidth, etc. environments)

$$\LaTeX$$ is fantastic, but sometimes it does strange things, like breaking \urls only at certain points. Using tricks like this glorious \UrlBreaks hack, one can force URLs to break at any point, but for some reason, this does not work in… »

• ### Random Question Generator on Anki using JavaScript

Updated 2016-10-17 to work with AnkiDroid!

## Introduction

Anki is brilliant. It has really lived up to its motto ‘Remember Anything, Remember Anywhere, Remember Efficiently’ for being my go-to way to remember notes and other information. This is made all the more powerful through its HTML-based… »

• ### Optimisation of a composite function involving a differentiable monotonic component

While doing optimisation problems with calculus I often find myself needing to optimise expressions such as $$\sqrt{\sin x}$$, though often more complicated. Using the chain rule on the square root is time-consuming, and it seems logical that as a monotonically increasing function, the… »