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arthur o'dwyer – stuff mostly about c++
Via that same Hacker News piece that generated “Image rotation by shifting pixels” (2021-11-13): Any angular rotation can be expressed as the sum of three shear transformations. Shear right, then down, then right again; the result is an angular rotation!
At CppCon this year, Ben Deane ’s nametag featured a cryptic crossword clue: Bird chewing a pencil (7). That got us talking about crosswords, which reminded me that a few months earlier I’d learned of Vermont poet Holly Painter , who has a book coming out next year titled At last, we listen closely: cryptic crossword poems . The publisher’s blurb explains: