I've bought digital music from Amazon for almost as long as they've been in that business. Their prices are very competitive, the MP3's are dog-standard and DRM-free so they work on every device imaginable, and, until recently, they have supported Linux.

Admittedly, they haven't supported Linux well for some time …

We have lost one of the greats of our community.

I first met John Hunter when he came to give a presentation about matplotlib at the Space Telescope Science Institute in 2004 (or thereabouts). I remember being blown away by how capable matplotlib was (even then), and stunned by John's …

In the last post, I outlined some of the architectural difficulties bringing matplotlib's interactivity to the browser. In short, there's a big chunk of code that lies between building the tree of artists and rendering them to the screen …