The unsung heroes of the IntelliJ Community repository
Here, we analyse the commit history of the IntelliJ Community repository.
Posts by Year
2019
Should Wolfram Mathematica consider a public bug tracker?
Here, I discuss benefits of switching from an email-based support to an open issue tracking system for Wolfram Mathematica from the perspective of a user.
About Music, Recording and Visualizations
Last year, I re-discovered home-recording and had quite some fun. Here, I want to share some of the things I learned and combine everything by visualizing th...
2018
Rubi - A Rule-based Integrator for Mathematical Expressions
This a story about how a collaboration between a Hawaiian mathematician and me brought the rule-based integrator Rubi to its new place on GitHub.
The new Mathematica IntelliJ Plugin 3.0
The beta-release of the new Mathematica Plugin 3.0 for Intellij 2018 is available and this is a short guide that explains changes and new features.
2017
Mathematica: Checking your function for wrong options
When you define a function in Mathematica, it usually takes also some options. If you provide a wrong option to a built-in function, it has a unique way givi...
The Definite ANTLR 4 Referece: A rant about today’s book quality
This is a short analysis of the poor printing quality of a book from “The Pragmatic Bookshelf”.
How Key Promoter became Key Promoter X
This is a story about a small, but very popular plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
2016
Simple scheme for a line-pattern
This shows an extremely easy line-pattern that can be worked out with paper and pencil, as well as implemented using Mathematica.