Jekyll Blog: Pinned Posts in the Chirpy Theme – CSS
How to add a custom custom.css file in the Chirpy theme and highlight pinned posts without modifying theme files.
Tools: Generating Web Images from PDF (Poppler + ImageMagick)
Convert PDF to PNG using Poppler (pdftoppm) and process the image with ImageMagick to generate blog-ready web images.
LaTeX: VS Code instead of TeXstudio – step-by-step
Step-by-step LaTeX setup in VS Code: installing TeX Live, configuring LaTeX Workshop with latexmk, enabling PDF preview and SyncTeX, and organizing the build directory with Git.
LaTeX: Hello World – a (Nearly) Minimal Example
A LaTeX 'Hello World' in two variants: a minimal file and a practical template with preamble, packages, sections, math, a figure and bibliography, plus the basics of compiling to PDF.
Jekyll Blog: Icons – CSS classes and Font Awesome
How icons work in the Chirpy theme: using Font Awesome via CSS classes in HTML, plus a simple Python script that generates an icon grid in Markdown.
Web: Five Ways to Generate HTML – Hello World Then and Now
A comparison of five HTML generation models – static HTML, classic and layered SSR, CSR + API, and SSG – illustrated with a 'Hello World' example past and present.
SolidWorks: Getting Started
Getting started with SolidWorks: training materials, academic certification paths (CSWA, CSWP, CSWE), first launch overview, and exam workflow using the TesterPro Client.
The Number “e”: Accurate to One Million Decimal Places
Computing the number e from its Taylor series in C, using GMP to obtain one million decimal digits.
The Number “e”: Taylor Series and Euler’s Formula
Derivation of Euler’s formula from the Taylor series expansion.
The Number “e”: Where It Comes From and Why It Matters
An intuitive derivation of the number e from the definition of the derivative of an exponential function.