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Hacking Quarto Callout in LaTeX

a small customization victory
Quarto
LaTeX
TIL
The Quarto Guide goes into details about how to define callout blocks and eventually customize them.
May 1, 2023
Enrico Spinielli

Expandig Kobo Clara HD’s microSD Card

The COVID-19 lockdown in Belgium was officially enforced on noon 18th Mar 2020 but at home we were already quarantined (kids since Carnival holidays, 24th Feb; me from EOB…
Apr 19, 2020
Enrico Spinielli

ErgoDox keyboard

keyboard
Now that I have a new blog setup, I can more quickly post what has been since long time in the making: my ErgoDox keyboard.
Jun 30, 2018
Enrico Spinielli

Writing a Twitter Bot in R

R
Maps
Since a while I am contemplating the possibility of automatically publishing on social media some stats and data visualisations from work.
Jun 30, 2018
Enrico Spinielli

 

New Blog Engine

I finally decided to give it a try and then switched to blogdown (here the free book.)
Jan 2, 2018
Enrico Spinielli

 

Docker image for locally testing Oracle

docker
This post describes my journey to building and using a docker image for Oracle.
Oct 31, 2016
Enrico Spinielli

chip

Setting C.H.I.P. up

Few weeks ago I finally received my C.H.I.P. and PocketC.H.I.P.
Aug 7, 2016
Enrico Spinielli

 

DVD to Android Tablet

Android
Suppose your kids want to watch their DVDs in the car on their Android tablet…
Apr 2, 2016
Enrico Spinielli

 

Learning Vega 2.0 a.k.a. Reactive Vega

Vega
D3
Vega 2.0 adds a grammar of interaction to the grammar of graphics implemented in Vega 1.0.
Aug 8, 2015
Enrico Spinielli

 

How to add a new chart type to dc.js

D3
This is a step by step description of how I extended dc.js with a new chart type. It is inspired by a wiki page by Thomas Robert.
Apr 21, 2015
Enrico Spinielli

HTML Scraping or Surviving Orrible Corporate Tools

webscrape
At work I have to fill my weekly timesheet. We use Planisware’s Timecard to record time spent on the various projects we are assigned to work on.
Feb 7, 2015
Enrico Spinielli

How Internet Long Tail Helped Me Fixing My Smartphone

repair
I am just more and more amazed by the opportunities offered by the current Internet connectivity: they call it the long tail.
Jan 30, 2015
Enrico Spinielli

 

Understanding Great Circle Arcs Intersection Algorithm

Maps
D3
The following material is the result of my attempt to understand the nice example from Jason Davies. I was puzzled about the origin of the algorithm used to find the…
Oct 19, 2014
Enrico Spinielli

 

Failing to be recruited…

recruitment
This post title to be frank should have been “Impressions about the selection process of a big Internet company (and my failure to go to the next steps after initial…
Aug 29, 2014
Enrico Spinielli

 

on revising

Lately I found myself involved into writing.
May 13, 2013
Enrico Spinielli

 

Automatically extracting bomb drops from the Blitz Bomb Census maps

GIS
Python
  • a nice research blog which uses the Blitz Bomb Census from The National Archives
  • a blog entry from the Guardian about the first day - and data - of the Blitz over London.
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    May 19, 2012
    Enrico Spinielli

     

    wiki of the future?

    javascript
    LaTeX
    wiki
    Last weekend I have been watching, reading and playing around with Ward Cunningham’s Smallest Federated Wiki. As usual he is a great designer and aims to simple, effective…
    Apr 19, 2012
    Enrico Spinielli

     

    metacircularity

    lisp
    I found and liked a very good summary of the ‘Maxwell Equations of software’ motto from Alan Kay in this post from Michael Nielsen.
    Apr 18, 2012
    Enrico Spinielli

     

    syntax highlight

    javascript
    $(‘#code-area’).load()
    Apr 18, 2012
    Enrico Spinielli

     

    Git and RSA identities

    git
    Here is the solution I found to be able to use git with a different RSA identity than the rsa_id default one.
    Feb 6, 2012
    Enrico Spinielli

     

    LaTeX on Blogger again

    LaTeX
    Revisited in 2022 to make it work wit Quarto…where things are so easy!
    Jan 20, 2012
    Enrico Spinielli

     

    (What was) Croquet is maybe still alive

    It seems there is still some hope to see Croquet (or, OpenCobalt which took off from where Croquet stopped) alive and based on latest Squeak and more importantly using Cog VM.
    Mar 26, 2011
    Enrico Spinielli

     

    Investigating Pier

    smalltalk
    I have been playing around with Pier.
    Oct 31, 2010
    Enrico Spinielli

     

    LaTeX on Blogger

    LaTeX
    Revisited in 2022 where Quarto makes everything easy.
    Nov 11, 2009
    Enrico Spinielli

     

    Geomapping: what a wonderful world!

    GIS
    Suppose you have a set of lat/lon points, where do you find out their elevation?
    Oct 27, 2009
    Enrico Spinielli

     

    PyCalCal is out!

    Python
    Calendars
    Astronomy
    I finally set to put PyCalCal out in the open.
    Oct 26, 2009
    Enrico Spinielli

     

    Giants’ Shoulders in music

    A nice song about a great Giant, Galileo, by the Chromatics.
    Jul 28, 2009
    Enrico Spinielli

     

    Scons and noweb

    LaTeX
    Python
    Literate Programming
    I was curious to see how I could integrate noweb and Scons.
    Jun 14, 2009
    Enrico Spinielli

     

    LaTeX, Python and Literate Programming

    LaTeX
    Python
    In my spare time (a couple of hours per weekend…!) I am implementing calcal, a Python version of calendrica-3.0.cl, the Common Lisp implementation of the calendars from N.…
    Feb 24, 2009
    Enrico Spinielli

     

    My Giants

    LaTeX
    Croquet
    Literate Programming
    I am probably too selective, anyway my models for computer science/software engineering (one of them would disagree on both definitions) are just two: Donald E. Knuth and Ala…
    Feb 23, 2009
    Enrico Spinielli
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