Blogging with Gitlab
About a week ago, I figured out how to use Hugo, first with Caddy and then with Dropbox and Gitlab. Hugo + Gitlab in particular is an amazing combo because it's so easy to set up and run with: 1…
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What Ghost v1.0 says about its future plans
I've just checked out the Ghost 1.0 CMS. The upgrade from v. 0.11.9 happened last evening and since then I've been crawling through the new UI on the front- and back-ends. The back-end has alw…
'The stories that define us'
A postscript to the opinions v. reportage question, and why I'm not a fan of a label saying 'Opinion' atop oped pieces on a news website: Many consider the opposite of balance to be imbal…
The names of smartness
Something leapt in my heart when I read Kangana Ranaut's latest repartee to Saif Ali Khan's misguided notes on nepotism and eugenics. There were many reasons for this but one in particular was…
Why Titan is awesome #9
Featured image: Four of the 66 antennae of the ALMA array. Credit: Carlos Padilla – AUI/NRAO. Editions one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight In edition #8 of 'why Titan is awesome…
Quasiparticles: A useful perspective
Recently, an international team of researchers claimed that it had discovered particles called Majorana fermions in a topological superconductor. The international press went gaga but, unfortunately,…
Not for me a distinction between opinions and reportage
(Note: There's some text beyond the postscript at the bottom.) A recent discussion with some of my peers alerted me to a need I've either been deaf to or just don't buy: readers, at least…
Of armchair critics, journalists and sportspersons
You remember the criticism that former Indian men's ODI cricket captain M.S. Dhoni received when a member of the press, Sam Ferris, asked him a question about his retirement during a presser, got…
The remembering of Maryam Mirzakhani
Four p.m. I was blinking out of my afternoon siesta and scrolling down my Twitter feed catching up on whatever I'd missed when an RT by Thony Christie caught me quite by surprise: "Mathematic…
Goopy junk
Gwyneth Paltrow's goop, a wellness brand that has recently come under fire for advertising almost-certainly pseudoscientific "lifestyle" products like $66 jade eggs for women to insert i…
The photon that wasn't teleported
https://twitter.com/JenLucPiquant/status/884814806666153986 https://twitter.com/techreview/status/884707338103521286 Last month, Chinese researchers announced that they had performed two amazing fea…
Maintaining cabin pressure
Call me nitpicky or misguided but, as silly as this WhatsApp message sounds… … how many people stop to check how cabin pressure really works? Clearly the message is wrong but where does our impressio…