# \#blog

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## [\[ANN\] Refreshed JuliaHealth Website!](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-refreshed-juliahealth-website/129080)

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**Author:** [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 7:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-refreshed-juliahealth-website/129080 "2025-05-22T07:10:45Z")

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Hi folks! :waving\_hand: Introducing the New JuliaHealth Website! With a tremendous thank you to @Hetarth02 and @Divital, we are excited to announce our refreshed JuliaHealth website! Supported Features As of today i…

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## [Creating Blog Posts in Julia Pluto Style](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/creating-blog-posts-in-julia-pluto-style/122559)

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**Author:** [@roflmaostc](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/roflmaostc)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 12, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/creating-blog-posts-in-julia-pluto-style/122559 "2024-11-12T18:57:13Z")

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Hi, I’m thinking about starting to write blog posts with Julia about optics. I’m slightly overwhelmed by the rapidly changing possible infrastructures around Pluto.jl, Franklin.jl, Literate.jl, … I’m happy to get any …

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## [\[Workgroup\] JuliaHealth Meeting -- September 26th, 2024](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/workgroup-juliahealth-meeting-september-26th-2024/119890)

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**Author:** [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 26, 2024, 4:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/workgroup-juliahealth-meeting-september-26th-2024/119890 "2024-09-26T16:03:58Z")

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Hi everyone! :wave: I am VERY late with a meeting annoucement (got a bit sick this month :face\_with\_thermometer:) but here we are with another meeting – TOMORROW! We have an exciting line-up of events planned. Here’s wh…

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## [\[Workgroup\] JuliaHealth Meeting – August 29th, 2024](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/workgroup-juliahealth-meeting-august-29th-2024/118541)

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**Author:** [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 29, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/workgroup-juliahealth-meeting-august-29th-2024/118541 "2024-08-29T19:48:24Z")

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Hi everyone! :wave: Next week is our monthly meeting! It’s been a while so we have some catching up to do: New attendee introductions New contributor round-up! JuliaHealth News GSoC Reminders JuliaHealth Fall Hack-a-…

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## [\[ANN\] Introducing the JuliaHealth Blog!](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-introducing-the-juliahealth-blog/118388)

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**Author:** [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 19, 2024, 8:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-introducing-the-juliahealth-blog/118388 "2024-08-19T20:19:32Z")

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Hi folks! :wave: Have an announcement to make: We have a public JuliaHealth Blog now! There is not much on the blog at this time beyond us just now having the dedicated space. It is built using quarto and each blog pos…

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## [Improved syntax highlighting for Julia on the web](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/improved-syntax-highlighting-for-julia-on-the-web/49149)

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**Author:** [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)\
**Replies:** 29\
**Last updated:** [June 27, 2024, 8:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/improved-syntax-highlighting-for-julia-on-the-web/49149 "2024-06-27T20:30:22Z")

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Hello everyone, I made some improvements to the Julia syntax highlighter in highlight.js. This library is used by Documenter.jl, Franklin.jl, this discourse forum and many other tools to highlight Julia code, so hopefull…

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## [\[Workgroup\] JuliaHealth Meeting -- June 27th, 2024](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/workgroup-juliahealth-meeting-june-27th-2024/116219)

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**Author:** [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 27, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/workgroup-juliahealth-meeting-june-27th-2024/116219 "2024-06-27T17:56:42Z")

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Hi everyone! :wave: Hi folks! Two days until our monthly meeting! Sorry for the delay with getting this out, but here is our tentative agenda for this month: New attendee introductions New contributor round-up! JuliaH…

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## [Julia Blogging Workflow](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-blogging-workflow/101444)

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**Author:** [@mrufsvold](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mrufsvold)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 11, 2023, 10:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-blogging-workflow/101444 "2023-07-11T10:59:54Z")

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I am working on a couple blog posts right now, and I was hoping to get some insight from the many wonderful Julia bloggers about how you put together a post. I’d love to know: What tool do you use for turning text int…

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## [New Blog on Julia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-blog-on-julia/100855)

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**Author:** [@alfaromartino](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/alfaromartino)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 27, 2023, 4:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-blog-on-julia/100855 "2023-06-27T16:05:06Z")

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Hi! I’ve started writing a blog on Julia at T.E.C.H. - Martin Alfaro. I’m a relatively new user of Julia, and my goal is to share various approaches that have worked for me. The posts about Julia are written for anyone,…

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## [Choosing a numerical programming language for economic research: Julia,](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/choosing-a-numerical-programming-language-for-economic-research-julia/85697)

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**Author:** [@y.lin](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/y.lin)\
**Replies:** 135\
**Last updated:** [May 30, 2023, 8:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/choosing-a-numerical-programming-language-for-economic-research-julia/85697 "2023-05-30T08:19:21Z")

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Hi all, We wrote a new blog post about comparing Julia with MATLAB, Python, and R. Comments and suggestions are welcome!

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## [ANN: New Julia programming blog](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-new-julia-programming-blog/85667)

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**Author:** [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [August 18, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-new-julia-programming-blog/85667 "2022-08-18T17:43:58Z")

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I started a new blog on my experiences with Julia programming. Have a look: https://ufechner7.github.io/

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## [Complex step differentiation method explained](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/complex-step-differentiation-method-explained/14647)

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**Author:** [@jlapeyre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jlapeyre)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [November 27, 2021, 11:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/complex-step-differentiation-method-explained/14647 "2021-11-27T11:33:20Z")

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I wrote a brief post explaining the “complex step method” that was the first topic in Nick Higham’s JuliaCon 2018 talk. (Using Julia for demonstrations, of course !)

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## [Julia is Ranked 35th on the TIOBE Index](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-is-ranked-35th-on-the-tiobe-index/7026)

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**Author:** [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)\
**Replies:** 49\
**Last updated:** [December 14, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-is-ranked-35th-on-the-tiobe-index/7026 "2020-12-14T13:42:07Z")

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Last month we had a pretty massive blogging campaign, getting quite a few posts to the top of Hacker News in a month. The results of the most recent TIOBE index shows that this has made a sizable dent in the rankings: h…

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## [The current state of Javis and a look into the future](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-current-state-of-javis-and-a-look-into-the-future/47631)

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**Author:** [@Wikunia](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Wikunia)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 2, 2020, 9:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-current-state-of-javis-and-a-look-into-the-future/47631 "2020-10-02T09:45:46Z")

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Javis is a relatively new Julia package which helps you to create animations in general. Ranging from making a simple loading animation to a fourier animation (thanks @ric.cioffi) In my newest blog post you can read ab…

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## [It appears that juliabloggers.com needs a cert upgrade](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/it-appears-that-juliabloggers-com-needs-a-cert-upgrade/42228)

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**Author:** [@Oscar\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oscar_Smith)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/it-appears-that-juliabloggers-com-needs-a-cert-upgrade/42228 "2020-06-29T14:40:58Z")

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I got an angry message from firefox saying that the cert for juliabloggers is out of date. Someone should probably fix that. No idea if this is the right place to report this, but I figure someone important enough will s…

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## [Blog post: Julia for Probabilistic Metaprogramming](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blog-post-julia-for-probabilistic-metaprogramming/14835)

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**Author:** [@cscherrer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cscherrer)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 11, 2018, 9:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blog-post-julia-for-probabilistic-metaprogramming/14835 "2018-09-11T21:03:01Z")

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New blog post: Julia for Probabilistic Metaprogramming

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## [High precision linear algebra in julia: BigFloat vs arb (ball arithmetic)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/high-precision-linear-algebra-in-julia-bigfloat-vs-arb-ball-arithmetic/12819)

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**Author:** [@thofma](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/thofma)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 2, 2018, 11:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/high-precision-linear-algebra-in-julia-bigfloat-vs-arb-ball-arithmetic/12819 "2018-08-02T11:34:01Z")

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Fredrik Johansson has put together a quick blog post comparing performance of Julia BigFloat matrices vs Nemo Arb matrices: http://fredrikj.net/blog/2018/07/high-precision-linear-algebra-in-julia-bigfloat-vs-arb/

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## [Iterators on Julia 0.7 (and announcing the Invenia blog)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/iterators-on-julia-0-7-and-announcing-the-invenia-blog/12217)

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**Author:** [@iamed2](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/iamed2)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 10, 2018, 11:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/iterators-on-julia-0-7-and-announcing-the-invenia-blog/12217 "2018-07-10T11:07:32Z")

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In this post I talk about the new interface and share some tips and useful patterns for dealing with iteration in Julia 0.7: It’s been shared on Hacker News, if you feel like upvoting. This also serves as the announc…

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## [DifferentialEquations.jl 2.0: State of the Ecosystem](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/differentialequations-jl-2-0-state-of-the-ecosystem/3590)

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**Author:** [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 8, 2017, 12:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/differentialequations-jl-2-0-state-of-the-ecosystem/3590 "2017-05-08T12:43:21Z")

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Hey everyone, here’s the DifferentialEquations.jl 2.0 “State of the Ecosystem” blog post. The previous post was the release notes detailing what changed and what broke. This post is much more high level and describes our…