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==== 2023-12-18 ====
  * https://ourworldindata.org/period-versus-cohort-measures-whats-the-difference - Period versus cohort measures: what’s the difference?
    * well written; high information density; easy to read and understand.

==== 2023-12-05 ====
  * You can use the import linter package to enforce layered dependencies in a project.
    * https://blog.europython.eu/kraken-technologies-how-we-organize-our-very-large-pythonmonolith/ - Kraken Technologies: How we organise our very large Python monolith

==== 2023-10-31 ====
  * https://github.com/gventuri/pandas-ai - PandasAI is the Python library that integrates Gen AI into pandas, making data analysis conversational

==== 2023-10-27 ====
  * https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/vfht4r/check_the_inside_of_your_rotisserie_before_you/ - what is the brown stuff on the chicken?

==== 2023-10-23 ====
  * https://shreevatsa.net/post/breaking-pills/ - Breaking pills

==== 2023-10-12 ====
  * https://shreevatsa.net/post/irish-logarithm/ - Reverse-engineering the "Irish logarithm"
    * fascinating!

==== 2023-09-23 ====
  * You can use :Sexplore and :Vexplore to open the local-directory browser.
    * :Sexplore - Horizontal Split & Explore
    * :Hexplore - Vertical Split & Explore
    * More info at https://vimhelp.org/pi_netrw.txt.html#%3ASexplore

==== 2023-09-22 ====
  * https://github.com/jbms/finance-dl - Tools for automatically downloading/scraping personal financial data.
  * https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/apoptosis
    * Apoptosis is the process of programmed cell death.

==== 2023-09-13 ====
  * https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/996369 - FDA Panel deems Phenylephrine ineffective.

==== 2023-09-08 ====
  * A spike or piton is a piece of removable mountain-climbing gear that doesn’t get us any higher on the route, but it enables us to climb safely.
    * I came across it in https://tutswiki.com/convert-python-script-to-module/
  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piton shows a picture of piton.

==== 2023-08-28 ====
  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_work_platform#Scissor_lift - A scissor lift is a type of platform that can usually only move vertically.

==== 2023-06-07 ====
  * https://brilliant.org/wiki/bloom-filter/ - a data structure used to add elements to a set and then test if an element belongs to that set (ex:- spell checker).
  * https://www.airnow.gov/national-maps/ - shows "current air quality" and "today's air quality forecast" for the entire US.
  * https://www.airnow.gov/ - to get the air quality data for where you live.
  * https://www.airnow.gov/?city=Morganville&state=NJ&country=USA - air quality data for Morganville.

==== 2023-05-23 ====
  * <WRAP>
You can show private contributions on the github profile by doing

Profile icon at the top right → Settings → Contributions & Activity → “Include private contributions on my profile” → check → “Update preferences”

Ref:- https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/managing-contribution-settings-on-your-profile/showing-your-private-contributions-and-achievements-on-your-profile
</WRAP>
==== 2023-05-22 ====
  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_log | Transaction log]] (wikipedia.org): A transaction log is a history of actions executed by a database management system used to guarantee ACID properties over crashes or hardware failures.

==== 2023-04-17 ====
  * https://superuser.com/questions/10588/how-to-make-cut-copy-paste-in-gvim-on-ubuntu-work-with-ctrlx-ctrlc-ctrlv/189198#189198 - Use the "standard" hotkeys (Ctrl-c for copy, Ctrl-x for cut, and Ctrl-v for paste) in gvim on Debian.

==== 2023-01-09 ====
  * The keyboard shortcut ''Ctrl-Alt-t'' will open a terminal window on Debian.

Ref:- http://automatetheboringstuff.com/2e/appendixb/ -> "Running Programs from the Terminal Window" section -> second paragrah -> last line. The page mentions that it works on Ubuntu Linux. But when I tried it on Debian Linux (11.4; bullseye), it worked and opened a konsole.