Tullio Facchinetti

Speed up the compilation of LaTex Beamer presentations

This is definitely stolen from this blog post from Tobias Brink.

Large LaTeX beamer presentations compile slowly, especially if there are a lot of images. While working on the slides, it can help to only compile some of them. In order to avoid commenting them out, you can simply use

Learn enough C to survive

Forewords and personal considerations

The considerations in his post have been inspired by this one on Code of Honor by Noah. Some text is taken from the original post verbatim.

With respect to the original post, I believe that a proper learning of the C language, backed by the necessary context about underlying concepts related on the functioning of the computer, such as CPU, registers, memory, addressing, etc., makes the C language a formidable tool for a “practical comprehension” of the matter.

Workflow for writing theses collaboratively

In the last few years I have been supervisor of tens of students (I keep an updated list here). In some periods I had to manage the concurrent writing of 5-6 theses. This huge parallel work called to develop a specific workflow to manage the collaborative writing of a thesis, which I find rather effective and that I will share in this article.

Guidelines for theses and presentations

LaTeX is one of the tools more commonly used to write a thesis and a long scientific text in general.

In this article I will report some guidelines to write a thesis using LaTeX.

Shortcuts for Bash

Typically, we use arrow keys to control shell behaviors like moving the cursor from one point to another point. Also, it’s quite common to make mistakes while writing commands and to correct these you may use arrow keys + backspace, which is not optimal at all.