• Epidemiology with Python

    I was recently tasked with solving a fun epidemiology puzzle for one of my university classes. Below is an excerpt from the assignment describing the scenario. 11 people get sick enough to go to a local hospital with severe diarrhea and vomiting that lasts four days or so in each patient. All the patients turn…

  • LibriVox

    If you like Audiobooks check out LibriVox which offers free public domain audiobooks that you can download. The books tend to be a bit older but at least there is no DRM.

  • Rogue Waves

    Interesting video about how surprisingly common Rogue waves actually are.

  • Aurora update v2 to v3

    For anyone using Aurora store from F-Droid make sure you change to the new v3 package which is a separate listing from the previous v2 one.

  • KHTML

    It’s interesting that most of todays browsers have heritage going back to KHTML (by KDE). Chromium, WebKit, Safari, Edge, Brave, Opera, etc. all have some link to it. The only browser I can think of that doesn’t currently have KHTML code in it is Firefox.

  • Water.css

    Water.css is a neat little stylesheet that you can include on your static HTML documents to make them look a bit more modern. It doesn’t have any classes, just the tags.

  • Google Chat Apps

    I think Google’s longest running chat app has probably been the chatroom functionality of Google Docs.

  • The UNIX Operating System

    Interesting video about the original UNIX philosophy of combining small programs together to complete more complex tasks.

  • Uber IPO

    Personally I wouldn’t touch the Lyft or Uber IPOs with a ten-foot pole. They’re both companies that haven’t made any significant profits and are largely reliant on new investor money coming into the business just to stay afloat. If they do eventually turn around and become profitable then maybe I’d reconsider but I see no…

  • StackOverflow April Fools

    StackOverflow has started their April fools joke for this year. They made the site look like something from the early 2000s with gifs and such.