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Today I learned how to guarantee correct rendering of LaTeX equations with MathJax when placed inside Markdown documents.

Over close to a year of using Grammarly has told me that it's been a well-worthwhile purchase. I detail a bit on why.

Did you forget to set an environment variable before launching Jupyter? Today, I learned how you can rescue that situation easily.

Today I learned that it's possible to create a Desktop app that uses Flask (and hence HTML/CSS/JS) to render the front-end. Read on to see what packages are involved.

Today I learned that Canada exports education.

Today I learned about the definition of the term "probability simplex". Here's what it is.

Nudges are fascinating, useful, and in some cases, potentially life-saving. I recently read a paper that talked about life-saving nudges and reflected on what made these nudges effective.

I learned a new thing: how to enable Netlify site preview URLs to be commented back on a PR thread! A story about how the collective intellect of the world is such a wonderful resource to query.

Recently, I saw Datasette resurface on my Twitter feed, and I started doing a deep dive into it once again. The work that Simon Willison, author of Datasette, has done -- it is amazing! Here's what I learned test-driving it once again.

Once in a while, I make it a practice to hack on my resume. The goal isn't explicitly to keep it relevant, though. Instead, I use it as an excuse to practice CSS. The result is something I'm pretty pleased with. Come read about how I did it!