Some Ideas To Sit With…

2026-05-18

Compute

Transition from a LaTeX to Typst for PDF generation via Pandoc? Why not?
Use MathJax or Katex for HTML rendered math and science notation in web hosted environments?
I had an idea to write a “fuzzy-search” Python script, scrape my offline ZIM Wikipedia article titles (is there metadata?) and make a micro SQLite database or similar that I could run offline on my phone when I’m out and about. Possible? Maybe? How hard? I have no idea…
Supposedly wget can download a website and convert links for local storage. Then Zimwriterfs Can convert downloaded file into ZIM for offline use with Kiwix…

I would love to do some long form writing about my relationship with computers and programming languages. It’s been a big deal for me. I’ve been obsessed since 1987, even though I’ve never really used it for anything.