Stéfan van der Walt

Stéfan van der Walt

@mentat.za.net

Researcher at UC Berkeley, mainly focused on Scientific Python. South African raising kids in the Californian mountains. Otherwise lives in Emacs & org-mode. Enjoys running, philosophy, history, and building things with others.

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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...

github.comRelease v1.6.0 · jupyter-book/mystmdWhat's Changed 📖 A few miscellaneous documentation updates by @rowanc1 in #2154 📖 Remove out of date readme note by @rowanc1 in #2155 🔗 Fix URLs in table of contents directive by @brianhawthorne i...

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🚀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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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?

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...

Charl P. Botha@charlbotha.com

Ironically, I got distracted trying to use #Emacs `org-timer-set-timer` as my #pomodoro timer, because the notification sound was not working on my MacBook. At least I have this #TiL to show for it: charlbotha.com/til/fix-emac...

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