Excellent series of posts on how to pick your color scales for your data visualization projects.

Looks like an interesting CSS framework for including data visualization in HTML frontends. The fact that you can simply have the data in the HTML is particularly appealing.

Long and very interesting series of posts debunking the myths around Sparta. Where we learn it was a very unequal society... and that on top of being very violent... turns out, once again, all that violence was for nothing. The end of the regime is actually fairly pathetic.

Still somehow they managed to build a myth thanks to a few accomplices. That served them somewhat well but didn't last long. And now that myth is permeating pop culture and inspires toxic masculinity.

Smoke and mirrors.

What!? You don't know LaTeX yet? Go learn it, now! :-)

I like when papers aren't about "mine is better than your". This is an interestingly balanced take on those two popular option showing where they fit best. Shows good reasons for a polyglot approach: as usual use the best tool for the job.