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Ian @isuffix.com · 19/08/2026

This is really cool! Great to see syntax get the love it deserves.

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

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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 · 12/08/2026

It may also be that broccoli today tastes better than it used to due to farmers selectively breeding it over time

Ian @isuffix.com · 10/08/2026

FYI this post has a bunch of mixed tabs and spaces in the code examples which breaks the indentation since the default `tab-size` on the web is `8`. You should add `html { tab-size: 4; }` to your CSS styles or set up something in your editor to avoid adding tabs in code blocks.

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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

Home page

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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 · 21/07/2026

Getting the math syntax refactor in for Typst 0.16!

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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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Ian @isuffix.com · 15/07/2026

Uploaded +100,000 lines once due to this when Typst switched to self compiled docs

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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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I'll be excited to read it!

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I don't know whether to take offense or ask for recommendations

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Hmm, could be phrased as a survey question: Is Rust as good as a systems lang can be? - We may never beat Rust - New research is needed - Existing ideas just need impls - Rust itself can become better - Existing langs need popularity - Popular langs are already better (generally/in a specific way)

Is your assumed misconception that Rustaceans are focused too much on Rust alone, that they are mainly interested in languages built in Rust, or some third thing?

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 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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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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Typst's domain is mixed between writing academic articles that need math and citations vs. acting as an input format for content in SSGs. I doubt it could really replace HTML as a format sent across networks, but it's super interesting to consider it as a base for styled documents generally

Ian @isuffix.com · 04/07/2026

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Always growing, perhaps even overflowing

Ian @isuffix.com · 01/07/2026

Yeah it's kind of horrible. Typst actually had to introduce a new `title` element for h1 and have the `= heading` syntax convert to h2 (and `== subhead` to h3, etc.)

Tikhon Jelvis @jelv.is · 26/06/2026

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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

Oh I forgot to use connection colors for difficulty!

Ian @isuffix.com · 13/06/2026

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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 · 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.

Ian @isuffix.com · 04/06/2026

What decks did you run?

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Ian @isuffix.com · 04/06/2026

Nooo, not YuGi-Oh!

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Ian @isuffix.com · 29/05/2026

I was really feeling the bsky emoji picker on this one :)

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? 😁

Ian @isuffix.com · 29/05/2026

Your posts are great! I really appreciate how you promote empathy for users and also just share what makes you excited. Keep it up :D

Ian @isuffix.com · 21/05/2026

I bought a $20 multimeter off amazon that has auto ranging, auto on/off and folds itself up with spots for holding the prongs and wires inside the top case. So simply useful and I've never seen anything like it in a physical store

Ian @isuffix.com · 19/05/2026

Just turned on "require alt text before posting" 🙃

Ian @isuffix.com · 19/05/2026

Oops, forgot alt text: top-down photo of a banana and two mini muffins (left: poppyseed, right:chocolate chip) arranged as a smiley face on a pink plate.

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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Ian @isuffix.com · 17/05/2026

I think so. Adding a variant to a new enum adds the number of values of that variant to the enum, but adding _no_ variants to an enum leaves it unchanged, so the enum with no variants acts like the additive identity in terms of number of values