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An even smarterer html_truncate tag for Jekyll
As you know, I am using Jekyll to generate this blog. When setting mine up I read how Benjamin Thomas read how Jack Moffitt set up his Jekyll installation, and thought the idea of an html_truncate filter was pretty cool, and thought the… »
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Mini vMac with colour (on Linux)
Notice 2020-10-30
This post is several years old and is now out-of-date. Pre-built binaries are now available from the Mini vMac downloads page supporting Macintosh II with 256 colours.
The original post appears below for posterity.
As I posted some time ago, Mini vMac… »
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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.
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Welcome to the new home of ‘$ sudo FIXIT!!’
I've just completed the migration of all blog posts and comments from the old Blogger site to this new Jekyll/HashOver-based blog. Hooray for open source software!
Along with the revamped site and layout comes a name change: Goodbye, $ sudo FIXIT!!,… »
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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… »
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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… »