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Open New LibreOffice Documents Easily

Open New LibreOffice Documents Easily

After the most successful poll in Twitter’s history, I switched from Office to LibreOffice more than one year ago. There were many reasons to this shift, the main one being my non-willingness to pay a licence for software that I use less and less. For instance, Excel is only a UI to have a glance at data, since I analyse and produce graphics and summaries from them exclusively with R; and I use Word and PowerPoint only for compatibility with my colleagues, since I use LaTeX, Markdown, or R to produce text documents and presentations.

However, on macOS, LibreOffice is not a bundle of several apps (Writer, Calc, Impress), but a single application that contains the modules necessary for all these features. The application dynamically shows on the UI only the relevant modules (eg only the ones for a text document, for a spreadsheet, or for a presentation). I’m fine with that, except that there is no shortcut to open any given type of document. If you’re running a text-focused UI, the shortcut to open a new document opens a new text document. If you’re running a spreadsheet-focused UI, the same shortcut opens a new spreadsheet. Etc. But I found a solution.

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Two New Papers To End 2020

This is nice news before we put an end to 2020: two papers on which I contributed are now published online! They are:

Let’s meet in 2021 for more papers!

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Back To WordPress

Three years ago I switched to Anchor, an elegant and light CMS*. However, its development was discontinued, I don’t exactly when. I could have kept on using it but something important broke: the possibility of adding media to posts. Since I’m not thrilled by the idea of a text-only blog, I decided to move (back) to WordPress. WordPress is an extremely popular CMS, and one can reasonably expect a long-term support. 🤞

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Son Kol

Son Kol


Thanks to Jules Ducept from the featured image (CC BY SA 4.0, 2018)

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I found the best way to organise apps on my phone

Once again, I religiously watched the World Wide Developer Conference. Please don’t judge me. I don’t consider myself a developer—even though I’ve already plaid with Xcode—, but I like to watch the WWDC to know what’s coming to macOS, iOS and iPadOS. Actually, since they are running the devices on which I can easily spend up to 10 hours a day (personal + professional use included), I don’t find it particularly crazy to stay posted. 😏

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We certainly have achieved a lot!

After two months of lockdown, I sense a general feeling of not having achieved much during this period. I can join this feeling as I haven’t myself worked eight hours a day, five days a week, all the time, but I certainly have achieved a lot of things. Just for the sake of self-pride and self-motivation, I’m going to list what I can think of:

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