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Recently I've been looking for a C++ graphical toolkit that programs in modern C++ and eliminates all the 1990s bad influences of the Microsoft...

The showme command takes a list of files and opens them with the preferred application. In the showme --ask mode, it will ask the user the preferred...

Fiji (AKA ImageJ) scientific image manipulation software is a mess, a wreck internally, yet everyone uses it because it's free, and because there...

I'm going to describe my favorite way of thinking about programming languages. It's helped clarify things for me, and hopefully will be adopted by...

I love vi... always have. It's my go-to editor.

So, when I see all these people showing gorgeous screen shots of how vim can replace VSCODE or...

The time finally came to self-print my book. However, my Epson color printer hit its print limit, and even though there was nothing wrong with it,...

Why work with Colorspaces?
I've always accepted the idea that color spaces like RGB and CMYK somehow represented reality and an enriching...

Remember the PDF standard, the file exchange format for documents that's incredibly convoluted and difficult to program for, but, hey, at least it's...

Open Cart: These blokes were one of the few options that could explain themselves clearly. I was very hopeful. However, they use the Goog. Every...

The department of Snappy Graphics and Not Asking Too Many Questions brings us our latest physics discovery , the self torque of light .

See here ,...

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Treesheets is an advanced spreadsheet concept software . I know it's not strictly science, but I've wanted software like...

Anything in Nature magazine these days is secretly an advertisement for some product.

In this article , the product appears to be AlphaFold....

The cart ruts of ancient Pompeii are definitively ancient. They were buried along with the city. For the same reason, we also know they were built by...

There's a relatively new story that elephants don't get cancer. It's difficult to believe we have sufficient expertise in elephant cancer in wild...

Whenever I see large publications relentlessly hyping some new miracle technology, I always wonder who is behind the push. The Rust Language is a new...

Data Oriented, C-Style C++ programming = DOCC++

Just thought of it. It's really the style I enjoy. The DOCC normally points to de part ment of coun...

That's right, Ancestry.com has all the details on Unix , including what the family was doing in the 1800s. Surprisingly, they didn't come from New...

I'm dismayed when I see how popular R, Python, and Matlab have become. They're all a bunch of bolt-on centric scripting languages, about as bad as...

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