Mastodawn

About six months ago I wrote this article, really only for my own benefit to get some ideas clear in my mind. However, it has been surprisingly popular. Nice to know people are interested in this sort of thing.

https://codedrome.substack.com/p/implementing-mathematical-formulas-in-python

#python #pythonprogramming #mathematics

Implementing Mathematical Formulas in Python

Many of my articles include code which implements mathematical formulas, and as well as the Python code itself I usually include the formulas in traditional mathematical notation.

CodeDrome

Chris Webb Jan 21

TIFO that you can have italic emojis. Not likely to change civilisation but there you go.

Chris Webb Dec 16

Stages in learning a new programming language:

1 This looks easy.

2 This is terrible! What sort of moron created this? I'm giving up.

3 Oh, actually, that makes perfect sense.

#programming #programminglanguages #softwarengineering

Chris Webb Dec 9

I often use radians rather than degrees in my articles to measure angles. So I don't have to explain every time for people not familiar with radians I have written a short article Radians: An Exploration in Python
https://codedrome.substack.com/p/radians-an-exploration-in-python
#angles #radians #mathematics

Radians: An Exploration in Python

Measuring and using angles using radians

CodeDrome

Chris Webb Dec 4

I bought this book maybe 10 years ago and read bits here and there but have at last read it in full from beginning to end. I'm not going to claim I understood everything but overall it's very enlightening and I'm sure I'll dip into it again on occasions,
#alanturing #charlespetzold #computerscience

Chris Webb Nov 26

Has anyone ever asked you to write code on paper at an interview? If so how did it go? What were your feelings on the process and people expecting you to do it?

#programming #coding #interview

Chris Webb Nov 23

I've just finished reading Code by Charles Petzold. I recommend it to anyone, whether they be a programmer/nerd or a normal person!

#programming #computerscience #charlespetzold

https://www.charlespetzold.com/books/

Charles Petzold

Charles Petzold is the author of the books Code and The Annotated Turing

Chris Webb Nov 13

LXer Nov 13

LibreOffice 25.8.3 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 70 Bug Fixes https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-25-8-3-office-suite-is-now-available-for-download-with-70-bug-fixes #9to5linux #linux

Chris Webb Nov 10

Back in 2020 I created an interactive online periodic table displaying all the elements from hydrogen to oganesson. I don't do much web development these days and don't have time to develop it further so if anyone with the necessary HTML/CSS/JavaScript skills wants to tinker with it they are welcome to fork the GitHub repository https://github.com/CodeDrome/interactive-periodic-table-javascript

The project is live at:

http://online.codedrome.com/periodictable/periodictable.htm

#periodictable #chemistry #physics #webdev #javascript #chemicalelements

Chris Webb Nov 7

Nicola Rennie Sep 11, 2025

I've written a short blog post introducing "The Art of Visualization with ggplot2"!

This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 📊 including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots!

Blog post: https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-viz-book/

Or just go straight to online version of the book: https://nrennie.rbind.io/art-of-viz/

#RStats #DataViz #TidyTuesday

Introducing The Art of Visualization with ggplot2 – Nicola Rennie

I’ve written a book! This blog post gives a brief introduction to The Art of Visualization with ggplot2, a book of data visualization case studies showing the end-to-end process of building charts, starting from data acquisition to custom styling, entirely in R.

Nicola Rennie