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Badness 0: A Tom7 typesetting and GPL parody

suckerpinch · Talk · 22 min · 2024 · YouTube title: Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version)
Why it's here

HN readers point to it as an example of Tom7's ridiculous-but-brilliant programming projects, here tied to license parody and typesetting.

What it covers

Tom 7's pilot episode of a series that plays with type systems and absurd programming, presented as a parody of the GPL v3 license. It mixes a typesetting experiment with a long, story-driven intro on the origin of TeX. Source code and papers are linked from the author's site.