Achintya Rao • ಅಚಿಂತ್ಯ ರಾವ @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social

Here's a much-overdue introduction!

I am a science writer by training and profession, working at #CERN since Sep 2010 and communicating everything to do with #particlephysics.

Since Jan 2014, I've also been pursuing a PhD in #scicomm, from UWE Bristol (remote, part-time -- a hell of a combination that I do not wish upon anyone).

I love learning (about) programming.

When I can spare the time, I also attend #taekwondo training and play #thecricket for the CERN Cricket Club.

I wrote a piece on open-data practices in high-energy physics, published in the latest CERN Courier. It might interest some of you.

“Preserving the legacy of particle physics”: https://cerncourier.com/preserving-the-legacy-of-particle-physics/

Sorry, I should've added a link: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-GitWeb

TIL about

$ git instaweb

<3

No big deal, just casually offering cookies to the inventor of browser cookies.

I'm part of CERN's Web Team.

Our name should be Team Berners-Lee.

I didn't know there was an "a4paper" option for the document geometry, so to change it from "Letter" to "A4", I entered the width and height manually.

Except I put in "pagewidth=210cm, pageheight=297cm".

And I wondered why the lettering on the output was so tiny.

What's an order of magnitude or two between friends? :P

The tram driver saw me run towards him and stopped the vehicle even though he had started to pull out of the bay, to let me on! This doesn't happen often — they usually stick to their schedules and sometimes leave early so they can stay mostly on time — so I am very grateful this morning.

My new (very polite) colleague and I often end up discussing language and preferred writing styles. Today, when I was in the middle of something, he turned to me and said, “Thoughts on Oxford commas?”

Without realising it, and in an almost involuntary manner, I raised my voice and said, “Fuck ’em!”

I hadn’t realised I hate them _that much_. Sorry, friend!

"Bricolage", as they say in French! Or "jugaad", as we say in India.

Just realised that I should've CW'd this post. My apologies for the slip.

Hey, folks. Long time, no see. Here's something I posted on Twitter and I thought it might interest some of you!

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Want to surf the Web with the first ever browser, written by @timberners_lee@twitter.com himself? Visit worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/ where developers at a hackathon at @CERN@twitter.com have resurrected the venerable #WorldWideWeb browser (later renamed "Nexus").

Read more by me: https://home.cern/news/news/computing/developers-revive-first-web-browser-week-long-hackathon