- I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned how pleasant it is to create coffee stains using Typst, and if only LaTeX wasn't the de-facto standard in academia and stain-related journals, they would have already switched to it.
Of course, you can create coffee stains in HTML as well, but it's not something you can do in Markdown.
- Feature request: even/odd page stains that line up exactly as a single thru-stain.
- Everybody knows that coffee stains are the only surefire way to tell whether a paper has been read or just printed out and ignored. A colleague in uni (way back in early 00s) would add these to her documents every once in a while to give them the "has been read" stamp of approval.
by Drunk_Engineer
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- Possibly related:
https://badspot.us/Brown-Ring-of-Quality.html
- This looks nice, but it is just placing some pre-defined vector files. I wonder if it could be possible to procedurally generate realistic coffee stains.
- Originally from 2009: https://web.archive.org/web/20201101013903/http://legacy.han...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=hanno-rein.de and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39316193
This also reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30024165
by Vicinity9635
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- Love this. My resume has been in LaTeX for over 20 years now.
Underappreciated IMHO. You can version control it, no dealing with wild Word shenanigans. Totally deterministic. Just find a style, insert your bullets and you have a nice sharable PDF.
Nowadays you can even have your preferred LLM do the conversion for you. LaTeX is finicky and I've had it fix warnings in mine that I couldn't be bothered to.
Good stuff, highly recommend a LaTeX resume, whether or not you drink coffee.
by ChrisArchitect
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- (2021) Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39316193
- Not drinking coffee is the only reason I’ve ever felt truly excluded at a software company. Everyone loves their coffee!
by zippyman55
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- This looks like the old Lucent Technologies corporate logo. This would have been handy back in the day.
by pureagave
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- This is wonderful to see. I was a student and then entered into the tech industry in the mid 90's and at that time the Internet had fun whimsical things like this almost weekly.
- This is a good read for similar "fun" packages: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/67656/are-there-othe....
- I'm happy this is public domain. In 2023 I used the stain images as the basis for a CTF challenge (for BSidesSF). The encoded flag given to participants was https://github.com/BSidesSF/ctf-2023-release/blob/main/alien...
Unfortunately the challenge was a bit too hard and went unsolved during the competition.
- Coffee stains should look like water color paints. The fluid deposits pigment more at dry boundaries as evaporation and absorption approach equilibrium.
- Reminds me of Windows 3.11 programs that would add random "coffee stains" to your "desktop" "wallpaper"
by notorandit
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- Half done job or just a starting point! We need also:
* tea strains
* bread crumbles (squashed among paper leaves)
* tomato sauce drops
* hair
> A lot of time can be saved by printing [extra stuff] directly on the page rather than adding them manually!
by kkkqkqkqkqlqlql
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- Finally, I can drink my yerba mate and not be dismissed as a researcher.
- To save our children in the academia, we need a "Rewrite In Typst" movement, the equivalent of rewrite in rust!
by Seattle3503
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- I think it would be cool to see a version for epub 3.3, which is mostly html/xhtml with some limitations
by anishgupta
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- Here we go, trying to feel authenticity in our new world. Mistakes are beautiful
- My life is complete. I can die happy.
by tuhgdetzhh
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- "This page was intentionally left blank" is also an all time favorite of mine.
- Brilliant! And people say Lucent overpaid for their logo.
by conformist
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- Another essential package is realhats (replace boring \hat with real hats)!
https://github.com/mscroggs/realhats
by jpfromlondon
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- as amazing as these are, they do still look a little fecal.
by aaronblohowiak
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- Interesting way to apply a water mark
- See also: using Mathematica for drawing the circles like in the movie Arrival
https://youtu.be/r8nTifCIr0c
by kasane_teto
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- How nice.
by dcuthbertson
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- Now I want a package to add blood stains on my murder mystery screenplay.
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