August 15, 2015 at 06:07PM

Forgot to post this last night, so here it is: Today I learned: 1) How to make a moving GIF! (You use imgur’s gif-making service. =P) 2) The Oxford English Dictionary is a treasure of literary knowledge. It has usage citations going back more than a thousand years, and a thorough explanation of every word’s etymology and, to some degree at least, why we think it is that way. 3) Much to my chagrin, Arch Linux doesn’t support Python debugging very well. In particular, I’ve found it quite difficult to debug Python programs under gdb, which is theoretically quite possible (and useful for debugging segfaults… say when using Cython…).