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buo @buo.bsky.social · Jul 23

Requiring CLI support restricts the choices available... there's a list of editors here: wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o... -- but I'm not sure any of those will be clearly superior to micro.

List of applications/Documents - ArchWiki

wiki.archlinux.org

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buo @buo.bsky.social · Jul 22

The obvious answer is emacs, but it is so much more powerful than micro that it's probably not what you're looking for... maybe kate-editor.org ?

Kate - Get an Edge in Editing

Kate is a modern text editor built on the KDE Frameworks and Qt.

kate-editor.org

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buo @buo.bsky.social · Jul 3

Fantastic, thanks for sharing!

buo @buo.bsky.social · Jul 3

... in the sense that it just translates Julia to gnuplot. The package ends up being simpler, more robust, but with syntax that can express most of gnuplot's features.

buo @buo.bsky.social · Jul 3

There is a brief changelog here: github.com/mbaz/Gaston....

Why the change in API? The main reason is that v1.x was not able to take advantage of many of gnuplot's capabilities. It tried to be too smart and ended up being inflexible. The API is v2 is "dumber"...

github.com

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buo @buo.bsky.social · Jul 2

Yes! It's getting close: github.com/mbaz/Gaston....

I expect this will be shipped as v2.1 in the next few days.

provide gnuplot through artifacts | support `Gnuplot_jll` by t-bltg · Pull Request #187 · mbaz/Gaston.jl

Fix #135. Fix #189. Needs JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil#11570. Tests are passing locally. This PR: uses Preferences to select the gnuplot installation; splits Project.toml into one for the project and ...

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buo @buo.bsky.social · Jul 1

Version 2.0 of Gaston, a Julia package for plotting using gnuplot, has been released: mbaz.github.io/Gaston.jl/v2/

#JuliaLang #gnuplot

Introduction – Gaston.jl

mbaz.github.io

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buo @buo.bsky.social · Jun 18

In data communications, bandwidth and data rate are not the same thing.

buo @buo.bsky.social · Jun 15

Excellent, thanks! I love the logo as well

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buo @buo.bsky.social · May 26

Fantastic post!

buo @buo.bsky.social · Apr 29

End of an era

buo @buo.bsky.social · Apr 10

retractionwatch.com/2025/03/04/v...

Was nonsense ‘vegetative electron microscopy’ phrase a Farsi typo?

Vegetative Scanning electron microscope Wikimedia Commons A gibberish phrase that caught the attention of science sleuths after it slipped into several journals might trace its origin to a typo in …

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · Apr 5

'I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

www.theguardian.com

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buo @buo.bsky.social · Apr 3

I've been there -- it's a beautiful museum! Last time I went was about 30 years ago, though.

buo @buo.bsky.social · Mar 28

I've one terminal dedicated to newsboat. From time to time I open it, refresh the feeds, and see what's interesting. If there's something I want to read, I open it in Firefox (just press `o`). I like that it is super fast and light, can store the feeds locally, and only refreshes when I want.

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buo @buo.bsky.social · Mar 28

It _is_ old school, which is the best school. I read my RSS feeds with newsboat (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsboat)

Newsboat - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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NOAA Climate.gov @climate.noaa.gov · Mar 28

Today’s featured selection from the NCA5 Art x Climate Gallery showcases Diya P.’s photograph of a sunrise over Cholla cacti in the Southwest U.S.
www.climate.gov/news-feature...

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buo @buo.bsky.social · Mar 26

Retraction Watch retractionwatch.com is a blog dedicated to this issue.

Retraction Watch

Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process

retractionwatch.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Mar 22

THREAD: Law firm statements issued in response to Trump’s executive orders targeting lawyers.

(This thread will be updated as additional statements are released. Want to flag something that I missed? DM me, email me at [email protected], or send me a message on Signal at annabower.24)

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · Mar 20

Another case www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

www.theguardian.com

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · Mar 19

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

www.theguardian.com

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Mar 10

Dems can still get D senators to clip Elon's wings. But they only have about 48 hours to do it. I lay out the terrain in this post. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-...

Will Dems Pick Up Their Sword?

(Ed.Note: I go into a lot of detail below. The bottom line...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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buo @buo.bsky.social · Mar 9

I just checked the table of contents. It looks pretty good. Thanks for the heads up!

buo @buo.bsky.social · Feb 21

Don't underestimate the enduring power of Yuri's blog post... it's still being cited (I saw it just yesterday on HN). (Of course it's not the only reason.)

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buo @buo.bsky.social · Feb 6

I don't buy it. The difference between assembler and C++ is much smaller than that between C++ and LLMs -- at least the LLMs as they are marketed.