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LaTeX Tooling Guide

I'll let you in on a small secret: I hate LaTeX with a passion. It's a bloated mess with crazy syntax. It generates reams of warnings you can never totally get rid of, and some of the most confusing and/or unhelpeful errors I have ever seen. It needs to be run N times in a row. It even has a stupid name.

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Astro 2.0

Astro 2.0 is here! Astro 2.0 is the first major web framework to deliver complete type-safety for Markdown and MDX. Other release highlights include: Hybrid Rendering • Redesigned Error Overlays • Improved Dev Server and HMR • Vite 4.0 • A New Public Roadmap

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Prioritization, multiple work streams, unplanned work

On development teams, balancing priorities while keeping focus is hard. Without an intentional approach you can quickly find your team submerged in a lot of different work, hurting progress on your most important goals. But the real world is messy. Prioritization is hard. Work comes in many shapes and sizes. Unplanned…

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Light Table 0.6.6

Happy to announce a new, and fairly big, release of Light Table today! The highlight of this release comes from moving LT to CodeMirror 4 , which gives us multiple cursors, tons of performance improvements, and a few other little editing niceties. Here’s a list of the new multiple cursors commands:

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Adobe's Source Code Pro Font

Source Code Pro is a new font released by Adobe. It does wonders for technical fixed width and source code text readability. I highly recommend to use this font with your text editor, terminal and other software development tools (Especially if your eyes are getting old like mine). UPDATE 2: I am not sure how