Christian Lawson-Perfect @christianp@mathstodon.xyz

You, a tech startup with millions in angel finance: made an app to turn handwritten maths into TeX.

Me, just the worst kind of smart alec: convinced a pen #plotter to turn TeX into handwritten maths

Today: trying to build an Android app. Currently 10 minutes into waiting for "create a new project" to finish. Something called Gradle is making my whole PC very stuttery

You can play the game at https://www.geogebra.org/m/urrmrv2f.
I'm not saying I expect the author, Alexander Huber, to fix this - I think this was just made for fun.
But when you're making stuff like this for work, you really need to consider basic accessibility problems like this.

I spotted this Mastermind game made in Geogebra, and it turned out to be a good example to show the difficulties I have due to colour vision deficiency, and how you can design an interface differently to avoid them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdrf7GQ5tQ

I have a new #OEIS sequence: " a(n) is the smallest k such that k! has at least n consecutive zeros immediately after the leading digit in base 10."
http://oeis.org/A356739

The urge when faced with a minor feature request to retreat to the woods and spend the next decade rewriting all your stuff in Elm

Microsoft Word: now that ordinal is a superscript! You're welcome!

Also Word: now everything is superscript! You're completely welcome!

Hypermobility is remembering you don't wear *those* jeans because when you bend your legs they push your knee out of its socket

Does anyone make a desktop printer that isn't subsidised by the cost of replacement ink?
My piece of poop Epson has drained itself of ink the last time, and even knock-off ink is £50!
At the moment I'm looking at Brother laser printers, but even they seem suspiciously cheap. All I really need is black and white. Any suggestions?

Was: NP-Complete

Now: Dif-and-only-ificult

The number of open issues on the Numbas repository is down to 100! 🥳`

https://github.com/numbas/Numbas/issues

This is either an argument for or against letting the mathematician prepare the picnic

I've had a much nicer time working through "The Joy of Elixir", which ends with a little web server! https://joyofelixir.com/toc.html

welp, I tried to compile the code in the tutorial and encountered this problem - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61154102/building-the-spock-tutorial-example-fails - it doesn't work with the version of GHC it automatically installed.

So I've bounced off haskell again!