I have updated the design of the website! This started off as 'drop in a new Pelican theme and be done' and grew into a micro-project to do while confined to my parents house over Christmas (pandemic etc). I also watched lots of medium-to-terrible TV (GYNOTOPIA, SERIOUSLY?), which is a …

I made this tweet several months ago: (This website is now an elaborate mechanism for me to retweet myself.) In theory apeiroto.pe counts as a personal research page, but it's not of the "glorified CV" variety I was thinking about when I wrote the tweet. When I started apeiroto …

Two matters, one vastly more important than the other: SSL is active! It was incredibly easy to set up with Let's Encrypt. Losing SSL was one sad thing about moving away from GitHub pages, but it is clearly remedied. Now you can access my content securely. This site has a …

Here's what happened: My phone started acting up. The lock button turned into a 'maybe turn the phone off' button. The unlock button turned into a 'maybe turn the phone off, or open the camera?' button. I impulse-purchased a new phone, and the old one magically fixed itself. New phone …

For fear of turning this blog into a Chinese Restaurant Process I've spawned a new category, called tips. This category is the closest to my original vision for a PhD-blog, where I would write down useful things as I learned them. It turns out that's not very sustainable (PhD involves …

I'm gradually migrating old posts over from my WordPress blog, which will be backdated, ruining the timestamps-through-commits system that could have been, but never was. Hopefully the validity of the alleged timestamps on these posts will never be important for anything. Comparing the new post[1] with the old also …

Does anyone remember their first website? I know I was a nine-year-old with Microsoft Word and "Save as HTML", which seems like a decent reason to forget it, even if it was Pokemon-themed. Given my complete lack of gainful employment at the time, I took to website-making as if it …