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Stéfan van der Walt @mentat.za.net · 01/10/2026

It might be hard to explain the romance of this video to the next generation; but I still feel it!

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Stéfan van der Walt @mentat.za.net · 15/07/2026

How many people even try to replicate! I feel like it's not a very common (nor well incentivized) pastime.

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Stéfan van der Walt @mentat.za.net · 15/07/2026

And I can comment on this sub-comment, presumably.

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Stéfan van der Walt @mentat.za.net · 22/07/2025

mystmd 1.6 is out! Static exports should now work with hosting services like GitHub Pages, RTD, etc. Give it a try and let us know if you run into difficulties. github.com/jupyter-book... You can also now preview doc builds in PRs via CircleCI, following this template: github.com/stefanv/myst...

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Release v1.6.0 · jupyter-book/mystmd

What's Changed 📖 A few miscellaneous documentation updates by @rowanc1 in #2154 📖 Remove out of date readme note by @rowanc1 in #2155 🔗 Fix URLs in table of contents directive by @brianhawthorne i...

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Stéfan van der Walt @mentat.za.net · 24/06/2025

@mystmd.org 1.5 is out, along with an updated web theme! github.com/jupyter-book... github.com/jupyter-book... Improved site footers, hidden entries and external URLs in table of contents, better UI for in-browser execution plus improved docs and bug-fixes.

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Release mystmd@1.5.0 · jupyter-book/mystmd

(full changelog) Enhancements made 🗾 HTML Image Width #2111 (@rowanc1, @changeset-bot) 👽 Handle external URL specified in TOC #2102 (@stefanv, @fwkoch, @choldgraf, @mfisher87, @rowanc1, @changeset...

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Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

New seminar just announced! BIDS welcomes Peter Fackeldey (@pfackeldey.bsky.social) to campus on June 6. Don't miss his talk "Awkward Array: manipulating nested, variable-sized data with NumPy-like idioms" events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/2... #DataAnalysis #NumPy

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Stéfan van der Walt @mentat.za.net · 23/05/2025

I have had One Tab installed for a long time! But, afaik, it does not export links to markdown or org format.

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scientific-python.org @scientific-python.org · 19/05/2025

🚀Last week, the #ScientificPython Developer Summit brought together 32 package maintainers from across the ecosystem at eScience UW in Seattle! ✨It was a great opportunity to collaborate on improving the tools that power scientific Python research.🧑🏽‍💻 Thanks to everyone that joined! 🧡

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Paul “π” Ivanov - @ivanov@mastodon.sdf.org @paulivanov.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Wouldn't it be nice if someone went through to highlight the newly un-redacted parts of previous JFK reports? I got you! Let me introduce you to `diff-jfk`

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Stéfan van der Walt @mentat.za.net · 13/03/2025

Libro is a fantastic audiobook service: it's like Kindle, except that your *local bookstore* gets a portion of the profit each time you buy an audiobook.

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Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Take a peek at the NetworkX developers' retreat with Jarrod Millman, a key member of the leadership team! bids.berkeley.edu/news/fast-an... #NetworkX #OpenSource #PythonPackage

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Stéfan van der Walt @mentat.za.net · 13/01/2025

I see a lot of kids are into Roblox is well, but I can't figure out what it is exacty 😬

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 09/01/2025

Why major in philosophy? - can be smug after only 2-3 classes - only major where you finish knowing less than when you started - generally better beards than psychology - can't find a job, but then again what even is a job?

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Stéfan van der Walt @mentat.za.net · 09/01/2025

Maybe something like love2d.org which runs on lua? I spotted Löve in the Lisp Game Jam (itch.io/jam/spring-l...). I wouldn't recommend for a newcomer, but for your own fun you can also use Löve via fennel-lang.org

love2d.org

LÖVE - Free 2D Game Engine

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Stéfan van der Walt @mentat.za.net · 09/01/2025

I'm not sure we'd disagree :) The first language I showed my son was Logo via turtleacademy.com. I think the environment in which you learn a new language makes a big difference (easy access to examples, reference material). Python has some difficult concepts, and is becoming more complicated.

turtleacademy.com

Turtle Academy

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 08/01/2025

Recently found out that some people are actually READING all the books that they buy to put on their shelf?? Seems unbelievable but apparently it's true.

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Stéfan van der Walt @mentat.za.net · 09/01/2025

Not to be outdone on the procrastination *ahem* I mean productivity front, I adapted @charlbotha.com's org-timer pomodoro solution for waybar: mentat.za.net/blog/2025/01... bsky.app/profile/char...

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Stéfan van der Walt @mentat.za.net · 14/11/2024

To escape tab hell (once again), I wrote an extension to back up my list of Chrome / Chromium tabs into an org / markdown text file. Once that's done, I can close them all! And, of course, I'll get back to them "when the time is right". mentat.za.net/blog/2024/11...

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Exporting List of Chromium Tabs · Stéfan's blog

How to export a list of all Chrome / Chromium tabs, per window, per tab group.

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 07/11/2024

just discovered litecli (github.com/dbcli/litecli), it feels like a big improvement over the default SQLite REPL (autocompletion! support for multiline queries! syntax highlighting!)

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Charl P. Botha @charlbotha.com · 03/11/2024

During #PGP key-signing session with @mentat.za.net we just learned that keys.openpgp.org must strip third party signatures from public keys which complicates #WebOfTrust keys.openpgp.org/about/faq#th... This is such a pity, because #openpgp keyserver's WKD as a service is great!

openpgp.org

OpenPGP

Email encryption. For all operating systems. Standing the test of time.

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Charl P. Botha @charlbotha.com · 07/11/2024

PGP key discovery via Web Key Directory (WKD) aka setting it up so your #email clients can automatically find your #PGP public key by friend @mentat.za.net mentat.za.net/blog/2024/11...

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PGP key discovery via Web Key Directory (WKD) · Stéfan's blog

How Web Key Directory works for discovering PGP keys associated with a given email address, and how to set up your own.

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