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I’m guilty of having this online blog and not writing on it. I confess that working on its looks and internals is way more fun for me than actually writing some words in plain English for everyone to read. That however misses the point, because it is the blog post that justify the blog, not its internals.

This March I had the opportunity to go to the American Physical Society March Meeting in New Orleans. Since everyone gets a time slot for a talk, I got my chance too. It was scheduled too early and I didn’t enjoy a big audience which lowered my stress levels.

I just found a post on using the right dictionary and I immediately had to review its reference: You’re probably using the wrong dictionary by James Somers . I don’t regret it. The core message is that we shall not only use dictionaries to find the meaning of words we don’t know, but to use them to enrich our prose.

Sphinx-Gallery is an amazing project, and I got to talk about it in the EuroScipy 2016. Which is great for the experience Here I embed the presentation for convenience. You can find the full screen version of the presentation at:

TL;DR Emacs is the way to go Optimization is my way of procrastination. This time it is about getting a decent text editor. I am at the point where it is just annoying that all my text is getting scattered between different editors and that many times I have to open my same files under different editors to get what I need done.