Posts tagged "tool":
A How-to Guide to Font Selection
Motivation. There are two practical considerations to move beyond the default fonts. First, defaults are designed to be universally applicable, which inevitably makes them suboptimal for specific situations. Different types of texts—such as research papers, technical manuals, personal blogs, or software user interfaces—require different fonts to establish the right tone and clearly convey meaning without distracting their readers. Second, from a practical standpoint, most fonts are created to support only a limited subset of characters and styles. In practice, we have to deal with coverage issues and need to pair fonts to handle a wide range of characters, especially in non-English texts.
...Install, Configure, and Use WSL on Windows 11
For me, WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is the answer for working in both Linux and Windows environments. It works by running a Linux virtual machine within Windows. Although it's not perfect—nothing in the world is—WSL does a reasonably good job.
...Academic Citations and APA Style
Citations are important in academic writings, not only for acknowledging the original authors and avoiding plagiarism, but also for effective communication. Citations help readers track the evolution of thought and provide the source where they can retrieve the original material. Citations can also add strength and authority to your work. In this post, I will show how to properly cite sources in academic writings. In particular, I will follow the APA (American Psychological Association) citation style.
...Insert Code Block in LaTeX
The most simple way of inserting code blocks in LaTeX is the built-in
command \verb and environment verbatim.
An Advanced Guide to Unison
In the previous blog, we introduced basics of Unison, the lightweight yet versatile file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. In this blog, we will cover more advanced topics, including profiles, ignoring, backup, etc. You can also find the complete documentation in the official manual.
...A Beginner's Guide to Unison
Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
...Visual Studion Code - A Morden Source Code Editor
Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages and runtimes (such as C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go, .NET).
...Configure Git
See Pro Git if you are not familiar with Git.
...配置 Ubuntu 系统
用了五年的小破本今早又罢工了. 系统启动卡在某个硬盘挂载出错. 费了老劲儿, 一度以为这位战友终于走到寿命尽头, 还感慨前两天才奶了一口能再战几年呢. 最后发现似乎是 UEFI 分区挂了, 在 BIOS 里调成 Legacy 模式就能顺利启动. 尽管看起来是回到了一天前的样子, 能跑能跳的, 但我知道, 看起来流畅运行的表面下是已经服役五年多的残躯.
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