Monthly Archives: August 2018

Diffuse sunlight and pleasure

Posted on August 7, 2018 by

I just got to Delhi from Bangalore. The sendoff in the latter city was great: the skies were overcast, with a darker, wetter layer of clouds looming at the zenith, set at snail’s pace by a strong wind. Delhi wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Ghost’s Koenig editor

Posted on August 7, 2018 by

The new content editor in the Ghost CMS, named Koenig, is quite good, a much smoother use than WordPress’s new Gutenberg. Ghost’s latest iteration in v1.25.3 (as of today) has a full-screen minimal layout and bold serif text type brought … Continue reading →

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Weekend getaway

Posted on August 6, 2018 by

I just spent the weekend at Sunti koppa, a small village to the northwest of Mysore, in Kodagu, a.k.a. Coorg, district. I was there with my relatives – six of us in all – and we were put up at … Continue reading →

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Pro-preprints around the world

Posted on August 1, 2018 by

After I published my rebuttal to the Nature anti-preprints article, a scientist in the US wrote to me saying he was on the journal’s side and that he expects preprints to be done away with in the future. It was … Continue reading →

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