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73 that pandoc would come to support over fifty document formats; that it would allow automatic generation of citations and bibliographies; that it would become integrated into academic writing tools like Quarto and Jupyter Notebook; that it would be installed on millions of computers around the world.</em><br> 74Lovely business.</p> 75</li> 76<li> 77<p><a href="https://www.itv.com/news/2026-08-05/uk-seeing-really-unusual-rise-in-hummingbird-hawk-moth-sightings-this-summer"><strong>UK sees 'really unusual' rise in hummingbird hawk-moth sightings this summer</strong></a> - <em>There were only eight recorded sightings of hummingbird hawk-moths in the UK in 2021, but this year many more have been reported across the country</em><br> 78Pretty sure we had one visit our garden. Didn’t realise it was unusual.</p> 79</li> 80<li> 81<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/28/culture-war-motorists-future-drive-birmingham-speed-limit"><strong>Dear culture-war motorists, look to the future. Weâll all be driving at 20mph soon</strong></a> - <em>There are howls of protest from the right about plans for Birmingham to be a 20mph city. But it will be a good thing, and others will follow</em><br> 82This is familiar stuff from Christian Wolmar, but he’s not wrong.</p> 83</li> 84<li> 85<p><a href="https://www.jezuk.co.uk/files/04_edtut.pdf"><strong>A Tutorial Introduction to the UNIX Text Editor</strong></a> - <em>Ed is a "text editor", that is, an interactive program for creating and modifying "text", using direc tions provided by a user at a terminal. The text is often a document like this one, or a program or perhaps data for a program.</em><br> 86From 1978, an ed tutorial written (and you know <a href="https://www.jezuk.co.uk/blog/2024/04/a-lightning-dash-through-brian-kernighans-typesetting.html">he typeset it</a>) by Brian Kernighan, almost certainly using ed itself.</p> 87</li> 88</ul> 89</div> 90</div> 91</div> 92<div class="sect2"> 93<h3 id="_listening_corner">Listening Corner</h3> 94<div style="left: 0; width: 100%; height: 200px; position: relative;"><iframe src="https://pca.st/embed/4j2iwwqb" style="top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> 95<div class="paragraph"> 96<p>I’ve known both Giovanni and Jason for years. I think this is good stuff, but I may not be entirely objective.</p> 97</div> 98<div style="left: 0; width: 100%; height: 200px; position: relative;"><iframe src="https://pca.st/embed/24s5y0gg" style="top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> 99<div class="paragraph"> 100<p>Lots of fun compression algorithm history.</p> 101</div> 102</div> 103 104 105<hr/> 106Tagged 107<a href='/tags/boardgames.html'>boardgames</a>, 108<a href='/tags/twats-in-cars.html'>twats-in-cars</a>, 109<a href='/tags/ai.html'>ai</a>, 110<a href='/tags/ed.html'>ed</a>, and 111<a href='/tags/brian-kernighan.html'>brian-kernighan</a> 112 113 114 115 116 117 <hr/> 118 <div class="container"> 119 <div class="col-xs-6 col-sm-5"> 120 121 « <i>prev</i><br/> 122 <a href="/blog/2026/08/cooking-with-pete-courgette-fatteh.html">Cooking with Pete: Courgette Fatteh</a> 123 124 </div> 125 <div class="col-sm-2 hidden-xs"> 126 </div> 127 <div class="col-xs-6 col-sm-5 text-right"> 128 129 </div> 130 </div> 131 132 133 </div> 134 135 <div class="col-md-4 visible-md visible-lg"> 136 <div class="visible-md visible-lg"><small> 137 <p><br/></p> 138 <div class="container"><small> 139 <div class="visible-xs"> 140 <h3 class='hoik'>Jez Higgins</h3> 141 <p> 142 Freelance software grandad 143 <br/> 144 <em>software created 145 <br/> 146 extended or repaired</em> 147 </p> 148</div> 149 150<div class="visible-md"> 151 <img src='/files/illuminated-by-monitor-light.jpg'/> 152 <br/> 153 154 <h3>Jez Higgins</h3> 155 <p> 156 Freelance software grandad 157 <br/> 158 <em>software created 159 <br/> 160 extended or repaired</em> 161 </p> 162 <hr/> 163</div> 164 165<div class="visible-lg visible-sm"> 166 <div class="col-lg-4 col-sm-4"> 167 <img src='/files/illuminated-by-monitor-light.jpg'/> 168 </div> 169 <div class="col-lg-6 col-sm-6"> 170 <h3 class='hoik'>Jez Higgins</h3> 171 <p>
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