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The Youth Hostel

on YouTube 53m
Talkat FrOSCon 2016 · 2016-08-20..08-21· [career-development]

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name:Reuben Thomas
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video:https://youtu.be/d8F9sxs9BfI
slides:none on file

summary

The project takes nearly 25 years to reach a 40‑page mock‑epic of about 272 lines and forces real engineering: typesetting with 26 LaTeX packages, drawing two extra ligatures in FontForge, reverse‑engineering fontinst and PostScript tools, fixing a psutils nup bug, and rewrote libpaper in Perl (from ~1,500 C lines to ~150). The result produces physical proofs (five ready to bind, aiming for ~25) and leads to Debian Maintainer work and related paid engagements.

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chapters (5)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 2:49THE POEM
  3. 28:25THE CARDINAL VIRTUES REVISITED.
  4. 36:18MORALS
  5. 50:08FINIS

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