Personal website and blog of Josh Fogg. Mathematician, Writer, Gamer, and Techie. Not necessarily in that order.
Over the last couple of days I’ve been writing problem sheets for an upcoming maths course. To make these as accessible as possible, rather than using $\LaTeX$, Microsoft Word, or similar, I’ve been using markdown-based Quarto. I’ll save ‘why Quarto?’ for another time; for now I just want to focus on my experience using it to write mathematics problem sheets.
At the 2021 Sutton Trust summer school a student asked us for help with an integral she’d been struggling with:
In the distant past of 2014 I set about learning HTML. Like the ambitious 18 year old I was, this quickly snowballed into building what I now know to be a static site generator. Considering my then relative lack of coding experience, much less HTML, it was ambitious, but through perseverance Wren was born.
This post served as my about page from September 2021 until August 2024.
Written for my AFHEA application, demonstrating professional values V2 and V3.
I went down a bit of a Wikipedia rabbit hole today reading about “election firsts” and found some cool/depressing statistics. We all know that the UK has had 0 openly trans MPs and 0 trans Lords, but the same lack of representation is there at all levels of the system.
Written for my AFHEA application, demonstrating professional values V1 and V4.
Written for my AFHEA application, demonstrating professional values V1 and V3.
Holy wow its been over a year. That sure passed fast. Time to delve in and see how things went last year and what I want for the year to come. Like a perfectly cut avocado this post is coming to you in two parts.