Blog archives

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2020

Feb 19

A meritocracy reading list

Jan 11

An alternative method for keyboard input switching on macOS

Jan 11

A folder-based image gallery for Hugo

Jan 06

Semelfactive Verbs

2019

Dec 15

Stripping diacriticals from Russian text

Dec 13

Getting plain text into Anki: a saga

Dec 03

The Dalai Lama on cultivating altruism

Nov 28

Wealth of thirty-fives

Nov 27

He doesn't speak to any of these people

Nov 23

Saturday, November 23, 2019

Nov 22

Monthly report 2019-11-30

Nov 17

L-R method for language learning

Nov 16

Saturday, November 16, 2019

Nov 15

The following wind of privilege

Nov 14

Recent favourites

Nov 10

The misinterpreted-effort hypothesis

Nov 09

Saturday, November 9, 2019

Nov 08

Friday, November 8, 2019

Nov 08

The Wisdom of crowds. The Madness of crowds

Oct 31

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Oct 31

Monthly report 2019-10-31

Oct 29

Force Chrome to reload CSS and JavaScript

Oct 06

Sorry Jordan Peterson

Sep 21

What is the First Principle

Sep 16

Rules of Self-Governance

Sep 16

The Four Brahmaviharas as meditation objects

Sep 15

A Simple Styling Shortcode for Hugo

Sep 14

Sep 13

Russian TK Constructions

2018

Dec 14

Creating year and month groups in DEVONthink Pro Office using AppleScript

Dec 13

Nov 09

Friday, November 9, 2018

Nov 06

Tuesday, November 6, 2018. U.S. Election Day

Oct 19

Deleting cookies with AppleScript

Oct 13

Saturday, October 13, 2018

Oct 09

Monday, October 9, 2018

Oct 09

Scripting thumbnail image file creation on macOS

Oct 07

Sunday, October 7, 2018

Oct 05

Friday, October 5, 2018

Oct 04

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Sep 23

Searching the Russian National Corpus

Sep 17

Monday, September 17, 2018

Sep 16

Sunday, September 16, 2018

Sep 15

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Sep 13

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Aug 24

How fascism works

Aug 15

Managing classical music collections in iTunes in 2018

Jul 07

Using lynx to bypass ad block detection

Jun 11

Quarantining extremist ideas

Jun 10

Remind me, how do you say "WTF?" in German?

May 18

A letter to Jerry Brown

May 16

ESP32, DS18B20, TM1637 integration: Displaying temperature data

May 10

Interfacing an ESP32 to an MCP23017 GPIO expander

May 04

Using TM1637-based LED displays with ESP32

May 01

What was the purpose of that tweet?

Apr 29

Serving sensor data via ESP32

Apr 26

ESP32 reading Si7102 temperature and humidity data via I2C bus

Apr 19

How to disable links opening in a new tab

Apr 16

Setting up Arduino IDE with Heltec ESP32 module for macOS

Apr 15

New Yorker: Michael Cohen and the end stage of the Trump presidency

Apr 14

NYT: Tethered to a buffoon

Apr 13

Stalin, Trump, and the cult of personality

Apr 12

Not always what it seems

Apr 11

A software debouncing class for rotary encoders

Apr 06

Implementing a simple menu interface on OLED display

Apr 03

Carl Sagan's tools for detecting baloney

Apr 01

Resetting the Syncthing index

Mar 29

Displaying Cyrillic fonts on a 128x64 OLED display

Mar 13

Programming the Raspberry Pi in ARM assembly language

Mar 11

Reading data from Si7021 temperature and humidity sensor using Raspberry Pi

Mar 06

RF communication between Arduino Nanos using nRF24L01

Mar 05

Using the Raspberry Pi to communicate over the I2C bus using C

Mar 03

Implementing ADC using Raspberry Pi and MCP3008

Jan 30

2018: Experiment No. 1

Jan 11

Automate iTunes for chorus repetitions of L2 pronunciation practice

Jan 10

Awesome principles for L2 language learning

2017

Dec 19

2018: A year of experiments

Dec 17

Peering into Anki using R

Dec 05

Language word frequencies

Dec 03

Anki database adventures: Counting notes by model type

Dec 02

Accessing the Anki database with Python: Working with a specific deck

Dec 01

Working with the Anki database on mac OS using Python

Nov 03

Process automation in building Anki vocabulary cards

Sep 06

More Javascript with Anki

Jun 04

Rebecca Solnit: The Loneliness of Donald Trump

Jun 03

An approach to dealing with spurious sensor data in Indigo

May 10

Follow the intent.

May 07

They're just paid protesters

May 06

@realDonaldTrump Russian Twitter bot

Apr 19

Apr 17

13 Random thoughts about Canada after living here for a year.

Apr 05

Serious audio processing on the command line

Mar 19

Foreign language education in the U.S.: a neglected cure for xenophobia

Mar 16

Trump and the arts

Mar 11

Using macOS NSSpeechSynthesizer to generate audio content for Anki cards

Mar 01

My month without news

Feb 17

Using rrdtool to chart Indigo data

Feb 05

The right way to resist Trump

Feb 05

Helping the helpers

Feb 05

Don't feed the troll

Feb 02

AppleScript and iTerm2

Jan 25

Jan 14

NYT: Women who voted for Trump

Jan 07

2016

Dec 26

Scripting Indigo with Python

Nov 10

President Trump insisted...

Nov 10

Going "low information"

Nov 05

Extracting mp3 file from web page with Python and ApplesScript

Jun 14

How to tell if you're being pandered to

Jun 13

Well that has a familiar ring to it

May 30

EC: An Environment Canada data plugin for Indigo

May 19

Using Python and AppleScript to get notified if a site is down

May 15

Dynamic UI lists in Indigo 6

May 08

Import and tag with Hazel and DEVONthink Pro Office

Apr 25

Using AppleScript with MailTags

Apr 12

Using AdBlock Plus to block YouTube comments

Apr 09

Introducing AnkiStats & AnkiStatsServer

Apr 09

Waking the computer to allow AppleScript to run.

Apr 05

An easier way to automate synchronization of Anki profiles with AppleScript

Apr 04

Scheduling synchronization of Anki databases on OS X

Apr 02

Resizing of images for Anki with Hazel and ImageMagick

Mar 26

Writing Hexo filters

Mar 22

Fine-tuning caching for S3-hosted static blogs using AWS CLI

Mar 20

Modern textbook design: an architecture for distraction

Mar 16

Trump, the conspiracy theorist

Mar 13

The spread of anger in social networks and its implications for political violence

Mar 12

anki_tool: low level manipulation of Anki databases

Mar 12

JavaScript in Anki cards

Mar 08

Organizing knowledge for memorization

Mar 06

Observation: Facebook groups don't work

Mar 01

Detecting Russian letters with regex

Feb 26

Scalia and the secret society

Feb 25

Mak-kimchi 막김치

Feb 25

Automate hexo blogging tasks with Grunt

Feb 25

Kimchi and hypertension

Feb 21

Privacy vs. security: Just this once.

Feb 08

On the lack of association between taxes, GDP and happiness

Jan 28

Trump meets computational linguistics

Jan 25

Stop Facebook tracking

Jan 22

Leaving something and taking something away.

Jan 14

The anti-polarizing effect of keeping one's identity small.

Jan 14

Properly understanding ISIS

2015

Nov 25

A new hexo deployer for Amazon web services

Nov 24

Scope of attention and consumption

Nov 23

Collapsing DEVONthink groups via AppleScript

Nov 20

A minimalist mind

Oct 17

Working with DEVONthink Pro Office and Hazel

Aug 30

Why is the U.S. obsessed with home ownership?

Aug 15

The Art of Just Enough

Jun 18

Finding things with DEVONthink

May 08

First experience with astrophotography

May 08

Concatenating mp4 video files

Apr 29

Dandelions and innocence

Apr 27

Nietzsche and the sublime purposeless of music

Apr 11

Middle class economics and false dichotomies

Apr 08

Private virtues v. public life

Apr 04

Synchonizing DEVONthink databases across machines