I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Book Production Pipeline

Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by kyboren on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @06:38PM (#48286965)

Considering LaTeX came from legendary CS PhD and Turing award winner Leslie Lamport's need to typeset a book, and was built on the shoulders of legendary CS PhD and Turing award winner Donald Knuth's work on TeX, I think "techbros" can safely pat themselves on the back as innovators in this case.

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Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by KPGv2 on Saturday May 30, 2026 @12:21PM (#48337906)

It doesn't seem you know what "techbro" means.

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Re:I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Boo... by kyboren on Monday June 01, 2026 @10:29AM (#48357338)

Please explain what you think it means.

I said CS PhD students have been doing this forever, and you dismissed that as techbros patting themselves on the back. But once I pointed out that LaTeX was created by Serious People, apparently CS PhDs aren't techbros any more.

So which is it? And who exactly do you think is a self-congratulatory techbro here?

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