back to blogging after break

Author: Jonathan Moussa

_posts/2019-04-18-hello-world.md

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ I have used them both for multiple projects, and I have no major complaints abou
 To visualize their dominance and in turn the dominance of DFT over semiempirical electronic structure,
  I will display some trends in scientific publications related to electronic structure:
 
-![publications: DFT versus SQM](/assets/DFT-vs-SQM.pdf){:height="100%" width="100%"}
+![publications: DFT versus SQM](/assets/2019-04-18-DFT-vs-SQM.pdf){:height="100%" width="100%"}
 
 This is based on Google Scholar searches of ["density functional theory"] for DFT,
  [("semiempirical" OR "semi empirical") AND ("electronic structure" OR "chemistry" OR "quantum")] for semiempirical electronic structure,

_posts/2019-05-12-linear-scaling-too-little.md

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ So, my interest in linear-scaling electronic structure ended up getting diverted
 Meanwhile, there haven't been any major advances in linear-scaling electronic structure research for the entire time that I've been interested in it.
 I've tried to rationalize and quantify this opinion by measuring publication rates in Google Scholar:
 
-![linear-scaling literature data](/assets/linear-scaling.pdf){:height="100%" width="100%"}
+![linear-scaling literature data](/assets/2019-05-12-linear-scaling.pdf){:height="100%" width="100%"}
 
 Here, I'm plotting papers mentioning ["electronic structure"] versus ["electronic structure" AND ("linear scaling" OR "scale linearly" OR "scaling linearly")],
  which shows that interest in linear scaling is growing with the activity in the field of electronic structure as a whole

_posts/2019-07-29-introspection-on-blogging.md

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title: "Introspection on blogging"
+categories: communication
+---
+
+My blogging activities became derailed over the last few months because I was a bit too busy with other things.
+I'm now ready to get back to regular blogging.
+My initial purpose in starting this blog was to have a platform for long scientific rants, and that was indeed the style of my initial posts.
+However, long posts are (1) time-consuming to write, (2) time-consuming to read, and (3) cause posting to become less frequent.
+This is a lose-lose-lose, and it contributed to the hiatus in posting.
+Micro-blogging (a.k.a. Twitter) has become more popular than traditional blogging for these reasons.
+From now on, I'll try to make most of my posts shorter and more digestible,
+ which will lower the barrier for me to complete and publish them.
+
+In line with this new blogging style, I will refrain from talking about what I've been up to lately in this post,
+ and instead explain it over several posts spread out over the next few days.

assets/DFT-vs-SQM.pdf renamed to assets/2019-04-18-DFT-vs-SQM.pdf

@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@
 plt.ylabel('# of publications per year')
 plt.legend()
 
-plt.savefig("DFT-vs-SQM.pdf",bbox_inches='tight',pad_inches=0.01)
+plt.savefig("2019-04-18-DFT-vs-SQM.pdf",bbox_inches='tight',pad_inches=0.01)

assets/DFT-vs-SQM.py renamed to assets/2019-04-18-DFT-vs-SQM.py

@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@
 plt.ylabel('# of publications per year')
 plt.legend()
 
-plt.savefig("linear-scaling.pdf",bbox_inches='tight',pad_inches=0.01)
+plt.savefig("2019-05-12-linear-scaling.pdf",bbox_inches='tight',pad_inches=0.01)