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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 21:52:57 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Friend: what are you up to?
   Me: updating resume
   Friend: what is that?
   Me: what is what?
   Friend: it doesn’t look like you are using MS Word. It seems alien to me.
   Me: it is in LaTeX. It is a software system for typesetting documents
   Friend: 😱

   • Stephen McNamara (noflcl@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 21:55:51 JST Stephen McNamara

     in reply to

     @nixCraft
     Sister: What are you typing?
     Me: Notes
     Sister: Why are you typing like that?
     Me: Like what?
     Sister: Like that!
     Me: Turns on markdown render
     Sister: 😮 show me how to do that! What is that!?
     Me: Markdown, its a markup language.
     Sister: *eyes glaze over* never mind, not worth it.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 21:57:17 JST nixCraft 🐧

     in reply to

     • Stephen McNamara

     @noflcl haha 🤣

   • René Ladan (rene0@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 23:39:53 JST René Ladan

     in reply to

     @nixCraft companies insisting on having résumés in Word instead of PDF 😫

   • Weasel (weaselx86@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 01:49:38 JST Weasel

     in reply to

     @nixCraft

     .so tmac.X
     .ds T A Proposal for 80386 VM86 Performance Enhancements
     .ds To ''\*T'Page %'
     .ds Te 'Page %'\*T''
     .ds Be ''Locus Computing Corporation''
     .ds Bo ''Locus Computing Corporation''
     .nr sf 0.0i
     .ps +2
     .vs +2
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     .ll -.4i
     ..
     .de ei
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     ..
     .en
     .sp 1.0i
     .PS +4
     .ft B
     .ce
     \*T
     .PS -4
     .ft I
     .ce
     David A. Butterfield
     .PS +2
     .ft B
     .ls 1
     .ce
     Locus Computing Corporation
     .PS -2
     .ft R
     .ce 2
     3330 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405
     .sp
     .ce
     \fBABSTRACT\fP
     ...

   • Marf / Nigel (marfje@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 02:46:27 JST Marf / Nigel

     in reply to

     @nixCraft i have a friend that is also fluent in LaTeX. He used to make his school assignments in there.

   • InnerAlien (inneralien@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 03:42:25 JST InnerAlien

     in reply to

     • Typst

     @nixCraft ahhh yeah! My resume has been in TeX since college. I am writing cover letters in @typst now though. I might make the switch for the resume at some point.
     Really like where @typst is heading and the audacity it took to get where it is. 🙏🏻