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Matthew Butterick is also the author of Beautiful Racket https://beautifulracket.com/ and several fonts https://practicaltypography.com/mb-fonts.html.

As an ex-lawyer turned coder and one-time type setter for a school paper, I can only marvel at his accomplishments.

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I saw him present one time, perhaps it was RacketFest (Racket programming get together with lots of demos). He does a lot of creative project and his Racket books look good. Few things are better than someone having a personal need for something (in his case his own typesetting and publishing tools), builds the tools, then writes books about it.

My favorite thing he’s doing right now is suing GitHub/Microsoft for blatantly violating almost all the licenses on their hosted code for GPT.

https://githubcopilotinvestigation.com/

I’m also an enormous fan of his book, Beautiful Racket. It’s what set me off on the path of being a self-identified Scheme programmer.

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