The trivialblog software
I’ve written the software running this blog myself, in Bash; in fact it’s mostly a simple combination of GNU command-line utilities, producing completely static HTML. Texinfo renders the post source...
View ArticleMeta-update and GNU epsilon news
This little diary of mine needed some love. A good excuse to motivate myself to write more often comes from the idea of syndication in the GNU Planet (); to make that possible without adding off-topic...
View ArticleEuropean unitary patent amendments
Please call the Members of the European Parliament right now, asking them to support amendments 74 and 76 on the Unitary Patent directive. • Amendment 74 restates that software is not patentable, as...
View ArticleGNU Hackers Meeting 2013 in Paris, France
Thanks to a kind offer by Sylvestre Ledru () from IRILL () we have a venue for this year’s GNU Hackers Meeting: we will be in Paris, France, for the second time at IRILL after the very successful 2011...
View ArticleHappy pi approximation day
The fraction 22/7 has been known since antiquity as a simple rational approximation of pi. The fraction decimal expansion is 3.(142857); since pi is about 3.141592653589793, the approximation has...
View ArticlePrivacy 2013: Why. When. How. A talk by Werner Koch
A couple days ago Sylvain () asked me to proofread his transcription of the latest talk by Werner Koch (). That was an occasion for listening carefully to what Werner has to say about electronic...
View ArticlePlaying with graphics
I’m not good at graphics. Or rather, don’t think I have particularly good taste. Now that I’m thinking of it, in the remote past as part of my first big job I was actually paid to do photo touch-ups....
View ArticleHello from the GHM
Posting during a quiet time at the GHM pre-meeting, before most people arrive. We have something new to show: [ghm-t-shirt] We went to get the t-shirt at the shop this morning. They did a nice job in...
View ArticleA practical GNU epsilon tutorial
A practical GNU epsilon tutorial Audience Lexical conventions Rationale and introduction My PhD thesis Implementation, and the relation beteen epsilon0 and epsilon1 The bootstrap problem Setup Writing...
View ArticleHappy pi Approximation Day 2014
It’s 22/7 again. Last year on pi Approximation Day I published a simple Forth program based on an intuitive geometrical idea: see Happy pi approximation day 2013 (). I’ve been thinking about what to...
View ArticleIntroducing Jitter, an efficient language Virtual Machine generator
During the last few months of this long silence I’ve been busy working on a new project. Of course it is free software, and I plan to propose it soon as an official GNU project. I’m now releasing...
View ArticleThe European Parliament has rejected the copyright directive, for now
The EU copyright directive in its present form has deep and wide implications reaching far beyond copyright, and erodes into core human rights and values. For more information I recommend Julia Reda’s...
View ArticleThanks for fighting against the European copyright directive
As I am writing this, the European Parliament is debating the disastrously liberticide copyright Directive. After out previous mailing campaign (The European Parliament has rejected the copyright...
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