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  • A Sony α7 I camera body with an adapted Super TAKUMAR 50mm f/1.4 lens attached to it.

    Bokeh on a Bud­get

    How to take great pictures on a budget using an adapted vintage manual lens and a second hand full-frame mirrorless camera body.

    • photography
  • The image is split into two parts, a top and a bottom part. The top part is an image of the Zeppelin NT, the bottom an image of the Boeing 787.

    En­er­gy Ef­fi­cien­cy of Air­ships Vs. Aero­planes

    Airships are generally assumed to be more energy efficient than aeroplanes. However, this presumed efficiency advantage has not yet been appropriately quantified in the pertinent academic literature. This article aims to fill this gap. It also evaluates airships and aeroplanes in terms of their suitability for future renewable energy carriers.

    • airships
    • sustainable transport
  • A photograph of the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin in Los Angeles, during its around the world trip.

    A Com­par­i­son of Propul­sion En­er­gy Car­ri­ers for Air­ships

    A comparison of past, present, and future energy carriers for airships, focusing on energy density and carbon emissions.

    • airships
    • sustainable transport
  • A figure with 8 subfigures, 3 per row, and 2 in the last row. The subfigures in the last row are centred.

    Sub­fig­ures in HTML/CSS

    How to create responsive LaTeX-like subfigures in HTML, and layout them with CSS only.

    • web development
  • A music stage with a singer and a guitar player. The stage is foldable and mounted to a purpose built carbo bike. The Eurobike banner is in the background.

    Cu­riosi­ties from the Eu­ro­bike 2025

    A summary of interesting technological developments from the Eurobike 2025.

    • human powered vehicles
    • sustainable transport
  • A markdown file icon on the left, and a Word file icon on the right. An arrow points between them, from the markdown file icon to the Word file icon.

    Write in Mark­down, De­liv­er as DOCX

    How to auto-generate DOCX files from Markdown source using pandoc, including tips and tricks for adjusting styles and writing templates.

    • pandoc
    • software
    • academic writing
  • An SSH terminal icon on the left, and a server icon inside the outlines of a house on the right of the image. The terminal on the left and the server on the right are connected via an underground tunnel. In the sky, there is a cloud that looks like Cloudflare’s logo.

    Se­cure­ly SSH Into Your Home Serv­er With Cloud­flare Tun­nels

    How to safely SSH into your home server without exposing your IP address or opening ports on your router.

    • software
    • networking
  • The WebKit logo with a crosshair overlaid on it.

    How To De­tect a We­bKit-Based Brows­er Us­ing JavaScript

    Apply workarounds for WebKit-specific bugs after detecting whether a visitor’s browser is WebKit-based.

    • web development
  • A tree graph representation with lots of nodes. The tree contains a subtree, whose left and right boundary elements are highlighted in blue and red respectively.

    Fun with CSS Se­lec­tors

    A CSS selector to target HTML subtree boundary elements, for example to set the top or bottom margin of an element to a specific value, irrespective of the margins of child elements.

    • web development
  • Two firefighters holding a fire hose in a training situation, with water coming out of it. In the bottom right hand corner of the image an equation for the equilibriating force on the nozzle is overlaid onto the image.

    Forces on a Fire Hose Noz­zle

    A derivation of the forces acting on a fire hose nozzle using the steady flow momentum equation, continuity, and Bernoulli’s principle.

    • fluid mechanics
  • An Albatross in flight, photographed from underneath. Its high-aspect-ratio wings and pointed wingtips are visible. In the bottom right corner of the image a graph showing both an elliptic as well as a bell-shaped lift distribution is overlaid.

    On Wings of Min­i­mum In­duced Drag

    Contrary to common belief, the elliptic lift distribution does not always result in minimum induced drag.

    • fluid mechanics
    • aircraft design
  • A thermal airship on the ground. Its hull is insufficiently inflated, resulting in the tail drooping. It has red vertical and horizontal stabilisers.

    How a Ther­mal Air­ship Keeps Its Tail Up

    How a thermal airship keeps its tail up, despite being non-rigid and having an unpressurised hull.

    • airships
  • Richard Feynman at the 1965 Nobel Banquet making a funny face with a cigarette in his mouth, and a thought bubble next to his head containing the Leibniz Integral Rule formula.

    Uni­ver­si­ties Don’t Want You To Know This One Sim­ple Trick

    Three simple proofs of the Leibniz Integral Rule (differentiation under the integral sign). Commentary from Richard Feynman as a bonus!

    • math
  • The Safari browser logo (a blue compass with a red and white compass needle), with four cockroaches crawling underneath the compass glass.

    Test­ing a Web­site in Sa­fari on Lin­ux

    How to test a website in Safari on Linux, including how to setup a macOS virtual machine.

    • linux
    • web development

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