Nikola @nikola@mathstodon.xyz
- Website
- https://nikola.plejic.com/
- Location
- Zagreb, Croatia
My interests, in no particular order: physics, programming (esp. API design), music (esp. weird), left-leaning politics.
Joined Dec 2020
Listening to "Over Fields and Mountains" and reading up on Branko Mataja...
Ran into the album on Norman Records' list of best reissues — it piqued my interest as it seemed like a name from the ex-Yugoslavia region I've never heard before.
Turns out there's quite a story behind this record:
Serendipity is an amazing thing.
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Last weekend I gave a talk at HOPE, Hackers of the Planet Earth conference, titled Revolution During Disintegration: Lessons from a Short History of Yugoslav Computing.
HOPE is organized by the legendary 2600 magazine and it was a true privilege and honor to speak at their conference for the first time. In my talk I told some stories and proposed a few lessons as the world around us once again becomes more polarized.
First snow o' the season @ Bled, Slovenia.
Can't say I missed shoveling snow off the car, but it was purdy.
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RT @ValaAfshar@twitter.com
When your children ask ‘why is engineering important?’, show them this video
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1461406363792388106
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if you need a moment of pure bliss, might I recommend listening to this
I just found out that Microsoft is discontinuing its Academic website with Dec 31st: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/academic/articles/microsoft-academic-to-expand-horizons-with-community-driven-approach/
That's a damn shame. I much preferred their UI and their features to Google Scholar. I guess it's time to look into some alternatives listed in that article...
This is your periodic reminder that Cecil Taylor was a freaking bad-ass dude:
https://burningambulance.com/2021/11/02/cecil-taylor-november-1996/
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Teenage Engineering just dropped a mini-ITX chassis and my brain is going to melt
I see the Bitcoin bros have rebranded themselves to "Web3"...
I guess it's only appropriate: we've lost Web 2.0's Yahoo! Pipes alikes and the semantic web, and instead got a non-trivial contribution to global warming and techbros reinventing capitalism from first principles.
Mazel tov!
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a new sneaker pimps album dropped today
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Legalize Sci-hub 
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Aren't you tired from writing your Rust programs in English? Would you like to try something different, exotic and funny? Do you like saying "merde" a lot?
Here's my contribution to solve this problem: Rouille, a French Rust programming language.
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I have a feature in this month’s Physics World on the role of free-and-open-source software in physics research.
Do read it and let me know what you think!
https://physicsworld.com/a/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-programmers/
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Setting the record straight regarding the @thepine64 #PinePhone #modem stack
https://dylanvanassche.be/blog/2021/pinephone-modem-myths/
#FOSS #LinuxOnMobile #Linux #upstream @postmarketOS @linmobblog @TLLim888 @LukaszErecinsk1 @LinuxSmartphone
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For people asking about #PineNote panel's EMR pen response time, here is a short video.
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The Arecibo radio telescope, the largest observatory in the world for 50 years, collapsed today. Here’s a latch-hook rug I made of the message it broadcast in 1974 and the globular cluster that was the target of that message. Rip you big ass telephone
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My heart rate vs. the 2am earthquake.
Nature: the ultimate alarm clock.
- Website
- https://nikola.plejic.com/
- Location
- Zagreb, Croatia
My interests, in no particular order: physics, programming (esp. API design), music (esp. weird), left-leaning politics.
Joined Dec 2020
