Borko @borko@mastodon.social

Mathematics is a sham, it only works because people get really smart while learning it.

The most annoying thing about moving from Adobe Illustrator to Inkscape is that I forget the name of the latter ("Inkscape") and I have to google "open source vector editor" in order to find it and start it. Otherwise, great tool! #foss #inkscape

I created a Jekyll template/boilerplate that can be used for publishing books, for all you all tech-savvy writers out there.

https://github.com/boris-marinov/jekyll-book-boilerplate

Sample book:
https://boris-marinov.github.io/jekyll-book-boilerplate/

#iamwriting #foss

One of the best pieces I have read on capitalism and art:

https://spark.adobe.com/page/ucLFuLOEKK9Uo/

Wrote a new chapter of the Category Theory book - Monoids.

And the book itself got a design makeover!

https://boris-marinov.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/03_monoid/

#iamwriting #categorytheory #cs #fp #haskell

And my site got an awesome new logo:

https://boris-marinov.github.io/

New blog post about #programming

https://boris-marinov.github.io/if/

For a few years, I have been working on this weird book/collection of articles about time and causality and I am still not sure if anyone would make something out of it. Check it out (and give me some feedback please). Boosts will be appreciated too.

https://boris-marinov.github.io/time/00/

#philosophy #iamwriting

One more exercise - implementing insertion sort in JS. A fun algorithm, hard mainly due to the many possibilities for off-by-one errors:

https://gist.github.com/boris-marinov/8cb542c026396e9d412206e1fcc7c050

#programming

Wrote a solution to the first Advent of Code 2020 challenge in functional JS:

https://gist.github.com/boris-marinov/f44a5bcbaab577475b05e12b274b7535

#programming