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Camdar @camdar.io · 18/09/2026

me, 2 hours ago: "why would I ever want a non-GUI slideshow tool?" me, needing to edit the same cloned element in 31 slides:

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Ian @isuffix.com · 18/09/2026

<del>llms</del>Typst

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Sam Clemente @samclemente.me · 04/09/2026

This `.docx` could have been a `.pdf`

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Ian @isuffix.com · 25/08/2026

My personal life hack is to buy a 50-pack of 3x3in _jewelry polishing cloths_ for $7 instead of glasses cloths. They fit better in a pocket, and when they inevitably get grimy and oily (like 2 weeks) you can just throw them out because they're so cheap and you have 50 of them.

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Cameron @cameron.stream · 19/08/2026

Gen Z is saying "type shit", which I now understand to mean "I agree or approve of this thing" Originally, I thought it referred to strong static typing systems in programming languages. But it does not refer to this.

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Ian @isuffix.com · 19/08/2026

// SAFETY: The insertion is valid as the length is known to be shorter than the capacity.

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 14/08/2026

what sicko decided to camel case this

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ensko @ensko.at · 11/08/2026

There are quite a few options for QR code packages on #Typst Universe, so if you're interested in a comparison, I'd invite you to read my new post: blog.ensko.at/2026/08/11/t...

blog.ensko.at

Comparing Typst packages for QR code rendering

There are several packages for generating QR codes using Typst. What are the differences?

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Ian @isuffix.com · 01/08/2026

Alright, who was gonna tell me about the Writing Systems Techincal Resources website? Seriously, why I have I never seen this before? writingsystems.info

writingsystems.info

Welcome

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 28/07/2026

claims to be against mutation but changes his mind, hmm

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Ian @isuffix.com · 17/07/2026

All the smoke in the midwest is making me really appreciate that our normal sky is a pretty color

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 06/07/2026

"Detached HEAD," a statement invented by the utterly deranged

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Ian @isuffix.com · 07/07/2026

Typst! It's such a pleasant language to write documents in that is incorporating ideas like styling and scripting in documents from the web, syntax and error messages from Rust/Markdown, and unique ideas for markup languages like pure functions and incrementalism.

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 07/07/2026

I'm trying to fight a misconception that I think I have about rustaceans. If you love Rust, please reply with another language that you're super excited about, that goes beyond Rust in some ways. That you see as potentially the future of some domain.

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Tikhon Jelvis @jelv.is · 26/06/2026

the debugger debugged your code, isn't that what it's supposed to do?

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Typst @typst.app · 15/06/2026

Typst 0.15 is out now. It contains multitudes, including some of the most anticipated features and improvements that will smoothen your work. Learn what’s new in the thread below.

Image with a big 0.15. The shade of the number transitions from very light on the inside to dark on the outside in steps. In the background, the text "Multiples detected" below a diagram of moon phases. A ruler spans the top and right edges of the image. On its sides, annotations illustrating different features of Typst 0.15: The font features ".53 MONO, 800 wght, 0.7 CSRV", a MathML tag, and the text "[Verifying PDF/A-2a + PDF/UA-1] All checks passed".

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Ian @isuffix.com · 13/06/2026

Here's one! I think it might be a bit too hard. One category that holds things together is a stretch, but I though one was really clever :)

hankgreen.com

4 × 3

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Ian @isuffix.com · 09/06/2026

314.5GB is my personal record

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Ian @isuffix.com · 04/06/2026

Typst and Yu-Gi-Oh enjoyers may be interested to know that I landed a joke into the raw syntax docs for the next version :)

Screenshot of part of the new Typst documentation for raw syntax. A vertical column containing a section header, a short paragraph, a Typst code block, and an image of the rendered output of the block.

The header reads "Embedding strings with raw syntax", and the code block starts with "An inline YAML dictionary via `.text`". In the block is YAML code with a map of Magic, Pokémon, and Yu-Gi-Oh each with a "limited-by" field with Mana, Energy, and "false" respectively. In the rendered output, "Mana" and "Energy" are highlighted as green strings with quotes and "false" stands out as a red boolean value.

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Ian @isuffix.com · 29/05/2026

Unstable Rust features are beehives! 🐝 There's some sweet sweet honey 🍯 in there, but the workers are very protective of their queen 👑 (stable Rust), if you don't satiate them you're gonna get stung 🗡️ Then maybe the all-hands meeting is like a fogger that excites some bees but calms some others? 😁

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Ian @isuffix.com · 19/05/2026

AFAIK, the _only_ way to create an `Arc<Path>` is with `<&Path>::into()`. I hate this

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 16/05/2026

… marry arxiv, kill jstor?

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Ian @isuffix.com · 29/04/2026

. the current folder .. the parent folder ... the GRANDFOLDER

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Ian @isuffix.com · 15/04/2026

Crazy tornado scare last night in Ann Arbor at 1:30am. Good part is I was already awake staying up to binge a cartoon. Bad part is they interrupted the finale >:|

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Ian @isuffix.com · 11/04/2026

Typst now has an english Wikipedia page! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typst This has taken quite some time due to citation notability requirements 🙃

en.wikipedia.org

Typst - Wikipedia

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Ian @isuffix.com · 05/04/2026

JavaScript WAT quiz: Does this error? If not, what is the value of `array` at the end? ```js var array = [0, 0, 0] var pair = [1, 2] array[pair.splice(0, 1)] += pair.splice(0, 1) ``` Hint: `pair.splice(0, 1)` removes the first element of `pair` and returns it as an array.

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Ian @isuffix.com · 31/03/2026

Typst layout iterations >:(

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Typst @typst.app · 12/03/2026

Did you know that arXiv is exploring to add Typst? The world's largest preprint archive faces unique challenges to keep science open. Join arXiv veteran Norbert Preining and learn what's ahead for arXiv and Typst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZl...

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Typst preprints in arXiv: What will it take? | Typst Meetup

YouTube video by Typst

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David Bushell 🪿 @dbushell.com · 16/02/2026

have a chuckle at this "Git flow" slop might explain GitHub's recent outages learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini...

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Components of the GitHub flow - Training

Learn to use the components of the GitHub flow

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Ian @isuffix.com · 13/02/2026

You're gonna love learning what the VL stands for in VLSI

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thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com · 16/01/2026

Never attribute to malice what could be explained by LaTeX quirks

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Lachlan Kermode @ohrg.org · 17/01/2026

I've been working on a new tool with @tonofcrates.bsky.social to make publishing easier called Rheo: rheo.ohrg.org In a nutshell, it lets you produce an EPUB, a PDF, and a static site (HTML) from a folder of @typst.app files. The Rheo doc site is naturally made with Rheo (PDF and EPUB linked).

rheo.ohrg.org

Introduction

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Ian @isuffix.com · 08/01/2026

I’m part of this! I added the new executable bit configuration option that should unlock the use of jj when dual-booting with an NTFS drive or on Windows Subsystem for Linux!

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 31/12/2025

It's just a blogpost, Michael. What could it take? 5 minutes?

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Ian @isuffix.com · 25/12/2025

The Advent of Compiler Optimization series has been consistently charming and thought-provoking. Great work Matt, have a Merry Christmas!

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Ian @isuffix.com · 29/11/2025

Typst builds on the foundation of purity with mutability (+=, dict.insert, array.pop), but only for scope-local variables. This leaves functions fully pure: they can’t modify values from outside their scope. I love this tradeoff and think it perfectly balances local reasoning and expressivity.

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Ragnar {Groot Koerkamp} @curiouscoding.nl · 25/11/2025

OH. MY. GOD. TYPST IS SO SMOOOOOTHHH. 100ms recompiles on save, by the time my eyes move from Emacs to pdf viewer it's already updated. I'm literally too slow to even see it update. Also, this is why escape now maps to save. Saving allll the time. And Lshift-># (alongside much older Rshift->$).

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Ian @isuffix.com · 24/11/2025

This article by Philipp Hagenlocher is a good reference for some of the real usability problems in LaTeX that are part of why I love @typst.app so much. Typst is able to lose the legacy baggage and design an actually ergonomic system from the start.

philipphagenlocher.de

Is LaTeX worth it?

A critique of academia's typesetting darling, LaTeX. Is its widespread usage really evidence of its inherent superiority?

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Ian @isuffix.com · 17/11/2025

Unlike woodworking, in software it’s good to remember that you can often measure once and end up making zero cuts. This is for the simple reason that it’s easy to imagine a performance problem that isn’t your program’s true bottleneck

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Ian @isuffix.com · 06/11/2025

I would like to publicly apologize to @typst.app for posting the 1000th open issue today 🫂. But I would also like to congratulate the Typst team on building a product that's worth this much discussion and improvement! Here's to finding (and fixing) 1000 more! 🥂

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Ian @isuffix.com · 10/10/2025

Code formatting is like the alphabet: it doesn’t matter what the standard is, it just matters that there is one

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Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

doing that thing where i slouch deep into my chair, brooding, one arm on the armrest holding a can of beer, except instead of slouching i have perfect posture, and instead of beer i have a glass of water

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Ian @isuffix.com · 24/09/2025

Firefox… no. Please please no

Screenshot of Firefox for iOS on a lobste.rs page, but the actual page is shifted down to only a third of the screen, the top is now a large red gradient with “summarize this page?” and a large button to continue to some form of AI text summary.

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Ian @isuffix.com · 19/09/2025

IMO it’s a mistake to use ”...” as syntax in a programming language for the simple reason that ”...” is incredibly useful when writing examples of syntax In prose.

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