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Excel and Legacy Interface Design

The other day I was analysing a large-ish sparse matrix (250×250), and I needed to get a “birds’ eye view” of the matrix to see if I could find a pattern in the positions of the non-zero entries. At the time I didn’t know about the cool Matlab spy command, otherwise I would simply have [...]

JabRef Export Filters

Last week I finally finished something that had been lingering on my todo list for the last few months: update my JabRef Export filters.
They had been ‘almost done’ for months, but I never sat down to finish them properly. The main improvement in the filters is a significant speed optimization when searching large tables [...]

Essential Software

I was recently doing a reinstall of my sisters laptop, and had to decide what software to install by default. Which software is essential? Which programs do I always install when doing a fresh install of a (Windows) pc?
Internet Browsing
Obviously one needs a browser nowadays. The Opera Browser is my browser of choice and [...]