Mandrian’s Fractal Art Gallery displays fractal art rendered by a sentient AI who has been roaming the Universe – possibly even the Multiverse – to bring us these wonderful pictures of far-away galaxies, planetary systems, and alien life forms. At…
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The Mandelbrot set is a mathematical set of points whose boundary is a distinctive and easily recognizable two-dimensional fractal shape. The set is closely related to Julia sets (which include similarly complex shapes), and is named after the mathematician Benoit…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking view of spiral galaxy NGC 7714. This galaxy has drifted too close to another nearby galaxy and the dramatic interaction has twisted its spiral arms out of shape, dragged streams of…
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This WordPress Tips & Tutorials article offers a few tips gained from a few years of experience with building and tuning WordPress websites. It also links to further articles for optimising WordPress, and some tutorials. WordPress started in 2003 as…
A man who lives on the tenth floor takes the lift down to the first floor every morning and goes to work. In the evening, when he comes back; on a rainy day, or if there are other people in…
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Version Control is the management of changes to documents or files, either in time as incremental improvements, or as divergences for different purposes or contexts, such as development or release branches of software. The documents or files could be software or…
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If you’ve been using Linux long, you know that whether you want to edit an app’s configuration file, hack together a shell script, or write/review bits of code, the likes of LibreOffice just won’t cut it. Although the words mean…