Weekly links for 2019-12-27

piep — piep 0.9.2 documentation

piep (pronounced “pipe”) is a command line utility in the spirit of awk, sed, grep, tr, cut, etc. Those tools work really well, but you have to use them a lot to keep the wildly varying syntax and options for each of them fresh in your head. If you already know python syntax, you should find piep much more natural to use.

nteract/nteract: 📘 Desktop, Jupyter Extension, libraries, and more

nteract is first and foremost a dynamic tool to give you flexibility when writing code, exploring data, and authoring text to share insights about the data.

Edit code, write prose, and visualize.

Share documents understood across the Jupyter ecosystem, all in the comfort of a desktop app.
Explore new ways of working with compute and playing with data.
We support Jupyter kernels locally on your system and on remote JupyterHubs via Binder

Vimeo-slides-sync

Vimeo-slides-sync
Synchronize your slides with your video on your web page

BitBar - Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar

The BitBar app lets you put the output from any script or program right in your Mac OS X menu bar. And it's completely free. An impressive number of plugins have already been contributed by a wide range of developers just like you, and this site makes it easy to find them.

In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-hub

There are many businessmen who own knowledge today. Consider Elsevier, the largest scholarly publisher, whose 37% profit margin1 stands in sharp contrast to the rising fees, expanding student loan debt and poverty-level wages for adjunct faculty. Elsevier owns some of the largest databases of academic material, which are licensed at prices so scandalously high that even Harvard, the richest university of the global north, has complained that it cannot afford them any longer. Robert Darnton, the past director of Harvard Library, says "We faculty do the research, write the papers, referee papers by other researchers, serve on editorial boards, all of it for free … and then we buy back the results of our labour at outrageous prices."2 For all the work supported by public money benefiting scholarly publishers, particularly the peer review that grounds their legitimacy, journal articles are priced such that they prohibit access to science to many academics - and all non-academics - across the world, and render it a token of privilege.3