Computers
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Windows Joke
in a world without walls and fences – who needs Windows and Gates ?
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Responsive Design
My youngest started first grade this year and needs some tool to help him study so I decided to create a quiz app in a browser for him. So it was time for me to brush up on html, css and JS. I have some basic code in Javascript for randomly picking the questions and…
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Mosaic
Even though Netscape was the first really widespread browser it really started with Mosaic. Marc Andreessen was involved in both products. There is s a short Computing Conversations interview about the origins of Mosaic.
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Netscape
If you are old enough you may remember Netscape and their browser that made the World Wide Web accessible for everyone. There is a nice documentary about these early beginnings of the www, Netscape and the ‘war’ between Microsoft to bring out the most popular web browser.
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Markdown Basics
In my search for a good way to digitise my notes with equations I have come across Markdown as an option. Jupyter Notebooks support it so this may be a promising solution. It is another ‘language’ to learn but at least the basics not related to equations are extremely simple. Headings in Mardown start with…
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Working with dates and times in python
Having finished all the most urgent tasks at work and having started the year end vacation I decided to pick up my python learning on Datacamp again. I followed the course on working with dates and types in python which is part of their python programmer track. It was a nice introduction to the datetime…
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File extensions
Ever wonder where these (mostly) 3 letter file extensions come from ? Here are 14 common ones : .bat : batch .bmp : bitmap .cfg : configuration .doc : document .exe : executable .flac : free lossless audio codec .gif : graphics interchange format .jpg : joint photographic experts group .nfo : information .png :…
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Writing Fractions In HTML
I have been thinking about digitising my notes of mathematics and physics exercises done over the years and one option would be to add them to my blog. As I don’t have a business subscription I cannot use a math editor. One option available to me is to use LATEX but for some of the…
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Swift Playgrounds
A year ago, at the beginning of the first lockdown we started with Swift playgrounds at home on the iPad to teach our 10 year old son Merijn a bit of coding. I had looked at it earlier but then it wasn’t available yet in Dutch. Last year it was and with a lot of…
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Personal Web Page Developments
Near the end of the previous millennium my internet provider brought ADSL connections to the market and I subscribed to the service. No more dial in connections with a modem over the phone line. With the service came an email address with a couple of aliases and the possibility to host your own personal homepage.…
