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checkmyworking.com

clp's techy blog

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2026 1

  1. Every toot I've ever written, in alphabetical order

2025 4

  1. how I set up my Raspberry Pi to boot from an external USB drive
  2. Help me work out what's wrong with this LaTeX (now solved!)
  3. Thinkserver: my web-based coding environment
  4. How I worked out what character set web Excel uses for its CSV export

2024 2

  1. A script to convert a WCAG-EM report from JSON to reStructuredText for a VPAT
  2. amcargobikes/amladcykler Ultimate Harmony cargo e-bike review

2023 5

  1. My development PC's homepage lists all the servers I'm running
  2. Finding all my recent git commits
  3. More Mastodon scaling experiences
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2022 10

  1. Can I also use?
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  3. Adventures in building an Electron app on Windows
  4. This site is active again
  5. Uploading an Ubuntu screen recording to Mastodon or Twitter
  6. Kdenlive for video
  7. Convert a sequence of images to a single PDF
  8. Tractor Befunge
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2016 1

  1. This site is now sort of static

2014 1

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2013 10

  1. MathJax hangout on air Q&A
  2. MathJax bookmarklet installation page
  3. A bookmarklet to replace WordPress.com’s image-based maths with MathJax
  4. 6 pieces involving patterns and functions by Edmund Harriss
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  10. Some of my old BlitzMax games

2012 35

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  2. my last Newcastle MathsJam recap
  3. Slides from a talk about zero-knowledge protocols
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  5. Using Computer Modern on the web
  6. Carnival of Mathematics 88
  7. toilet thoughts on learning
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  10. Fibonacci Grids
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  12. Instant MathJax preview of LaTeX typed into HTML textareas
  13. a video proving a nice fact about grids of fibonacci numbers
  14. Slides about the princess in a castle puzzle
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  16. A little applet to make maths for screengrabbing
  17. Slides – “Putting maths notation online”
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  20. Using a zero-knowledge protocol to prove you can solve a sudoku
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  22. Visualising the wrong data on the Guardian data blog
  23. Fractal dimension in IKEA
  24. Putting all the world’s water in buckets
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  32. Testing MathJax
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  34. Personal opinions on LaTeX
  35. The Ace of Base(-three numbers) trick

2011 24

  1. princess in a castle puzzle
  2. grunt -> hunt, grow -> how, ground -> hound, grandstand -> handstand, etc.
  3. Writing maths for the web is easy now!
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  6. Resources for first-year engineers
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  8. A bookmarklet which typesets TeX on any page using MathJax
  9. Another Numbas presentation
  10. You got your art in my maths!
  11. takenot.es is the place to write maths and see maths
  12. Write maths, see maths on github
  13. Double coset normal form for FPAs
  14. My Numbas presentation
  15. Write maths, see maths test
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  18. Numbas is now properly open-source
  19. An E3 fgoagog and an E4 fgoagog
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  21. How to make a Slinky look like a Klein bottle
  22. A demo of the Numbas maths exam system
  23. Not-quite-slides from a talk about Turing completeness
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2010 14

  1. Disappointing Stationery
  2. Some awful maths jokes
  3. Some notation for FPAs and HNN extensions
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  7. The computability of a fgoagog (intro)
  8. Interesting papers collection
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  10. yo.
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