Red-necked grebes in Germany (© Edo van Uchelen/Minden Pictures)

We are announcing an update to the Speedometer benchmark.

nikitonsky: When you have enough space for ellipsis but not enough for a single letter “e”

The Hickman Bridge at Capitol Reef National Park, Utah (© Tim Fitzharris/Minden Pictures)

Check out this really nice approach to rendering fully static LaTeX with hugo by caching remote fetches from a quick and simple KaTeX API. Really clever — glad to see that someone tried it. Custom output formats and remote fetching at compile time are two very important features.

If you’re not familiar with deno, try out the api with the command deno run.

$ deno run --allow-net main.ts
Listening on http://localhost:8000

nikitonsky: The in-place popup might not be such a good idea if it gets in a way of using other controls

An active lava tube, Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii (© Tom Schwabel/Tandem Stills + Motion)

I’m just now realizing that there might be a schism within the Nix/NixOS ecosystem/community on old versus new interfaces. If that’s remotely true, then somewhere, a great holy war is at play. Here’s an article summary of the old versus the new interface that I stumbled upon recently.

nikitonsky: Why the fuck is someone’s retweet in my notifications? I’ve seen it already in Home feed. What a mess, I have a feeling Twitter have no idea what they are doing, just showing random stuff in random places and hoping it’ll stick

Noctilucent clouds in Lithuania (© ljphoto7/Getty Images)