Pelican on a Bike - Raytracer Edition

Simon Willison has a light—hearted benchmark for evaluating LLMs. He asks them to draw a Pelican riding on a bicycle in SVG format. I decided to...

Sat 25 October 2025

Adding Fediverse Comments to My Static Site

The thing one misses most when switching to static site generators is comments. You can always use a 3rd party service like Disqus, but then it...

Fri 10 January 2025

Reintroducing Opel: Put All Your Pelican Posts in One Org File

A few years ago I introduced opel — an Emacs package that allows one to write all their Pelican posts in one Org file. It was inspired by ox—hugo....

Wed 14 December 2022

Put All Your Pelican Posts in One Org File

Pelican is a static site generator. Out of the box it supports two formats: Restructured Text and Markdown. There exist plugins to support the Org...

Thu 19 December 2019

Study Notes In The Information Age

It has been a long time since I was a college student. In those days I took all my notes in the classroom with a notebook. One notebook for each...

Sun 06 December 2015