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  • UNIX tip of the day: Inserting files with sed

    UNIX tip of the day: Inserting files with sed

    Today I was working on my family 2021 annual report. Usually I write this in December, but I am a bit behind this year. We have been writing one of these since 2006, and we generally have a lot of fun doing it. I write them in LaTeX, because I like LaTeX, and it produces…


  • Site redesign

    I started my website in 2003. At the time it was hosted by the University of Michigan, where I was a graduate student. They gave all students some space for a personal website. It was really great, though it did come with some limitations, like no php or cgi allowed. I managed to kludge some…


  • Multi-column balanced lists

    Recently I was working on a project where a client wanted a list of items to be displayed over multiple columns, and requested that the columns be balanced (as balanced as possible). It didn’t take me too long to figure out how to do this for 3 columns, but I knew that there was a…


  • Blogging with LaTeX

    The first question on reader’s mind must be — why use LaTeX to blog? Well, I have a pretty specific instance in mind, but I can imagine that others might be interested as well. This fall I am teaching a course on computational corpus linguistics at CU Boulder. I like to have some materials online…


  • On blog navigation

    I was recently debating with my friend Danny how people navigate sites, especially blogs. As the author of 3 plugins designed to enhance site navigation (collapsing archives, categories, and pages), I of course had my opinions, but what is really compelling is data. So I finally decided to modify my links on my site a…


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