I’ve got some backlog accumulated for Zenburn. People have sent in good suggestions, but I’ve had a bit of a shortage of time and many other things going on. Hopefully soon I’ll be able to work a bit on Zenburn and release a new version.
Anyway, in the meanwhile, please enjoy a Zenburn adaptation for Mac OS X Built-In Terminal, by Benjamin Esham.
You can download the terminal file from here. A screenshot is also available.
Thank you, Benjamin!
Check this out, a video made with completely computer-generated graphics. The Third & The Seventh by Alex Roman. Music by Jennifer Athena Galatis.
Absolutely wonderful stuff. And none of it is real.
A series of photos titled “Architecture of Wikileaks“. This is a Bahnhof AB datacenter under Vitabergsparken in Stockholm. And it looks like something out of James Bond movies!
If I were a millionnaire I’d live in such a place.
A friend was messing around with pseudo-random number generators, so I dug this thing up from the historical archives for him.
It’s a PRNG implementation done while I was a university student.
The main idea is simple: run multiple Galois-configuration m-sequence LFSRs in parallel, combining their outputs with XOR, thus making an LFSR with a longer sequence than would be possible by running an LCG in the given machine architecture. This is possible because the m-sequences are all co-prime (the length in bits of each individual component LFSR is a Mersenne exponent).
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(From a question about screen savers to musings about problems in adopting and providing radically new technology and technological improvements.)
A friend did a poll and asked “which of you use screen savers?”. So far there’s 4 replies and no-one has fancy animated screensavers, everyone just blanks the screen after a time. Does anyone really use animated screen savers nowadays?
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Yet a new Zenburn version! What’s new this time in v2.16:
Hardware master broke down, and new one was installed. Our VM was migrated and restored from backups, and there was a slight glitch in the services.
Everything should work fine now. At least until the next time the hardware fails…
And now a Zen-like question: did anyone notice? :P
Dale Anson wrote to tell that he added Zenburn to the Lipstik look and feel. Since Lipstik isn’t much maintained, he also added to the Graphite theme from the Substance look and feel project.
Then, he added a Zenburn editor scheme to jEdit. With this scheme, and Lipstik or Substance Graphite, you get a nice Zenburn editing environment in jEdit.
Thanks to Dale, jEdit now joins the expanding list of editors, environments and tools which contain the eye-friendly Zenburn colours. Well done!
Check out a screenshot of Dale’s jEdit port.
Update: I slightly misread Dale’s email, and now the wrong part is removed.
Zenburn v2.14 is released!
Featuring the proper colourization of CursorColumn syntax group (“:set cursorline cursorcolumn”). Many thanks to Drew.
Previously everything in the column falling under the CursorColumn would have the same foreground colour. This looks silly and was unintentional. With the fix only the background is highlighted.
Grab it from vim.sf.net or the official Zenburn page. A Vimball is also available, see the vim.sf.net page.
The invisible hand has decorated the statue of Mr. Adam Smith with a traffic cone!
The invisible hand has been mischievous
This year I was a guest in three weddings: in Finland, in Serbia and in Scotland. All of the weddings were beautiful occasions with lovely people, and I remember each of the weddings in different ways. I’ll not discuss the weddings themselves more here, but shall concentrate on the places instead.
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