LightNews LightNews
banner
cormullion.bsky.social
@cormullion.bsky.social
47 followers 7 following 48 posts
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted
adrianhill.de
If you are at #ICLR2025 and want to chat about automatic sparse differentiation (or just grab a sticker), come see me at poster 471!
A conference poster at ICLR 2025 titled “Fast Jacobians and Hessians by leveraging sparsity”.
April 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Reposted
cncastillo.bsky.social
Blog post explaining how I drew the Julia logo using spins and an MRI scanner! 🪄🧲 #JuliaLang #MRI

cncastillo.github.io/BlochHole/po...
I Drew the Julia Logo Using an MRI Machine – Bloch Hole
How the physics of MRI can be used to draw with spins and why this is useful.
cncastillo.github.io
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Reposted
lorenschmidt.bsky.social
some programming fonts i'm currently switching back and forth between:
julia mono
noto mono
nitti
consolas
atkinson hyperlegible
October 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
cormullion.bsky.social
sponsors for juliacon awaiting break time - and croissants compiling away opposite

#julialang #juliaconlocal #juliacon
sponsors for jukiacon - and croissants compiling away opposite
October 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
cormullion.bsky.social
the grouo photo is going to happen ! #julialang #juliaconlocal #paris
a group photo is about to be taken outside the big building
October 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
cormullion.bsky.social
Entrance to #juliacon !

#julialang #juliaconlocal #paris
the entrance to juliacon local 2025
October 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
cormullion.bsky.social
#juliacon #julialang #juliaconlocal #paris
croissants at JuliaCon
October 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
cormullion.bsky.social
trying to place the sponsor logos in a more interesting way, rather than just arranging them in a boring grid. not sure it works ... 🤔

#juliacon #julialang
poster for juliacon Paris 2025 - with sponsor logos
September 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
cormullion.bsky.social
even if today is #talklikeapirate day - you should try to avoid type piracy in #julialang - otherwise you'll have to wear this (or walk the plank)...
a t-shirt bearing the likeness of Vcat the pirate cat, the mascot of the Pirates of the Type System...
September 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
cormullion.bsky.social
unicode 17.0 officially "released" today

blog.unicode.org

#unicode #fonts #emoji #typeography
list of asteroid glyphs in Unicode 17 some of the new emojis defined by Unicode 17.0
September 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
cormullion.bsky.social
a #monospaced #blackletter #font, suitable (⁉️) for old-school coding …

github.com/cormullion/J...
left, illustration from The Aberdeen Bestiary (c. 1200), edited to show a very early McBook; to the right is shown some code set in a futuristic (c. 1500) blackletter font.
August 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
cormullion.bsky.social
“Scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful, and have switched to Bluesky“

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40637733/
Scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful, and have switched to Bluesky - PubMed
Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For the past decade, Twitter has been a primary home of sc...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
August 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
cormullion.bsky.social
from the #julialang user survey - Bluesky and Xitter about level
August 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
cormullion.bsky.social
any #julialang folks at #juliacon? Show us what we’re missing! 😂
July 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Reposted
michielstock.bsky.social
Finally, a new blog post! The Walk on Spheres algorithm is an elegant method for solving elliptic PDEs. Minimal implementation using #julialang

michielstock.github.io/posts/2025/W...
May 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
cormullion.bsky.social
genius on tap, advert from 1886.
Lord Kelvin’s mixer tap
May 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
cormullion.bsky.social
@thebeautyoftransport.com a typographical puzzler for you 🤣 #fonts
exeter central station front signage
May 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
cormullion.bsky.social
Luxor.jl can now add #typst text - including equations - to drawings. Useful for those with latex allergy 😉 Big thanks to Jakob Peters for his hard work! 🙏

#julialang #typst #epitrochoid
vscode and Julia code drawing epitrochoid and equations using Typst
May 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
cormullion.bsky.social
anyone good at HTML?

github.com/JuliaCon/www...
Add Bluesky to social media · Issue #660 · JuliaCon/www.juliacon.org
Perhaps we could add Bluesky to the bottom of the page? The social media section at presentshows (a bit untidily): Personally, I'd be happy to see the Xitter link removed entirely, but at least add...
github.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
cormullion.bsky.social
I didn’t get round to thinking about #piday this year.

I was a bit less lazy 5 years ago:

cormullion.github.io/pages/2019-0...

#julialang #pointlessgraphics
π day
cormullion.github.io
March 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
cormullion.bsky.social
the barista at my local coffee shop does amazing latte art on my flat white coffee ☕️ - not as chaotic as these though. I found the :coffee colour scheme useful!
Coded in #julialang and Luxor.jl...
abstract patterns in coffee colors
February 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM