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Looks like Reelin has other effects outside the brain, not always positive.

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)006...

Just a heads up, but contrary to the article, the NYC Papers We Love meetup is back. https://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love/events/302129898/

> tired of the infantilization of the industry

I would like to hear more about this.

Metapict has come in very handy to generate SVGs for use with my AxiDraw plotter. Love seeing blog posts like this with pro-tips on how to compose the functions. I always learn a lot from practical examples.

I have heard good things about https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ideas-created-future

Milano: https://github.com/papers-we-love/milano

The pandemic has been tough on Papers We Love as many of the local chapter meetups had to shutdown. This had an adverse impact on the Papers We Love Conf (https://pwlconf.org/) as well.

Some chapters (Seattle, Chattanooga, Bangalore) have managed to keep up a semi-regular cadence of Zoom meetups. NYC tried but has a hard time getting speakers (which is a bit surprising tbh.)

If you're interested in running a meetup, being a speaker or volunteering your time hit up @papers_we_love on Twitter.

Companies love to sponsor the local meetups because they see them as recruiting pools. They will usually provide the space and some $$ for food (pizza)

There was initial attempt in 2017: https://github.com/papers-we-love/sao-paulo

Maybe you could get some people together and start one https://github.com/papers-we-love/organizers

There used to be a Chicago chapter https://paperswelove.org/chapter/chicago/ - would be great to get it restarted

Seattle does https://paperswelove.org/chapter/seattle/

For more info on the PDF format: [VIDEO] Programming data for display, the PDF Story by Chas Emerick - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAki8C6qFHY&list=PLGRqfvsPiR...

Each individual video is also on the individual speaker's page:

https://pwlconf.org/2017/kenichi-asai/ https://pwlconf.org/2017/elaine-chew/ https://pwlconf.org/2017/chas-emerick/ https://pwlconf.org/2017/ron-garcia/ https://pwlconf.org/2017/james-long/ https://pwlconf.org/2017/heather-miller/ https://pwlconf.org/2017/fabienne-serriere/

A decent resource: http://paperswelove.org/

The use of ligatures in Hasklig is very intriguing. Would really like to see more work in this vein. Could see benefits to Clojure (arrows) and even => in JavaScript.

EDIT: Looks like FiraCode has ligatures too https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

YouPatch a Racket powered startup (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8psnTEjYIEA

The NYC Chapter meets monthly - http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love/

Our next meetup is Feb 5th w/ Sam Tobin-Hochstadt discussing Composable and Compilable Macros.

If you're in the metro area please stop by!

Feel free to add the paper to the repo

As ot noted, it is Computer Modern - more about the font and design choices here http://www.v25media.com/work/paperswelove/

Very good article, I've also been down the path of using Ruby + LaTeX to build print books. It ain't easy.

You might take a look at a project by Matthew Butterick: he made a very nice publishing solution with Pollen - http://pollenpub.com/

He also has an interesting take on eBooks in general: http://practicaltypography.com/economics-year-one.html

SoundCloud has Clojure in production

Economics - black clubs also enforce dress codes to try and ensure their patrons have some cash to spend. They want a clientele that can "dress to impress". Banning white shirts and baseball hats is also an attempt to lower issues with gangs, and young men (of any race) tend to fight a lot, so if you can get a slightly more grown up clientele, you might have less problems.

This is very common. Places particularly ban plain white t-shirts and baseball caps as it will keep out a segment of young black males. This isn't limited to white spots either, some clubs with a black clientele also enforce this ban.

I'm going to back this up in so much as I have seen this happen in Houston, as far back as the early 90s. A bar will open, perhaps their DJ spins hip-hop, and a primarily African American clientele "discovers" the place. Management freaks out and either cracks down on the door policy or bans hip-hop so that portion of the clientele doesn't come back.

It sucks, and it is wrong.

Also, this is not every bar or club in the city. There are a lot of spots with a multi-racial clientele in Houston that have been rolling along for years (some of my friends bartend at them), but if you're into the "high end" clubs/lounges and that sort of thing then you will definitely run into this crap. But then, I've always thought of those places as pretty low class.

Ahhh yes, The Katrina Refugee Boogeyman raises its head. Figured it would make an appearance at some point. Houston has always been a trigger happy city (I grew up there, 3rd generation) with high crime zones particularly in the Southwest section. Katrina refugees didn't make that happen.

It does need some more contrast. Also, while I do appreciate the elegance overall (I'm a UI designer as well), the vertical space could be tightened up a bit to get some more comments on a scree. Perhaps adding some options to the extension to allow toggling between a "Tight" and "Airy" stylesheet?

It's all about beanis. http://theanticraft.com/archive/imbolc07/beanis.htm

Marksy is both an online service (http://marksy.arc90.com) and a Chrome Extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/marksy/glncdocnokp...) which lets you quickly convert between different markup languages.

The full writeup is here: http://lab.arc90.com/2013/02/20/marksy/

Not a single person in that video/photo thing is over 18 years of age.