Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

Rendering #PDF documents:

– #LaTeX still seems to be the best free option: It generates TOCs, indices, etc. It optimizes page breaks by moving figures. Etc.

– I convert Markdown to LaTeX to PDF (via Pandoc) and it works really well. To customize the results, you have to know *some* LaTeX but not much: I mostly web-search & paste.

– LaTeX engine I discovered today: https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/

– There are a few CSS-based engines but no free options that come close to LaTeX(?)

#Publishing

Git-SIM: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos

Link: https://initialcommit.com/blog/git-sim
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34477976

#git

At least 4 critics of Carla Rossi's works have received letters from a lawyer threatening legal action.
https://twitter.com/mssprovenance/status/1619081730085756945?t=-o_3JWwEGEDQYxiRRyrcew&s=19
#receptiogate

A RAM module (magnetic cores) of a German "Kienzle Fakturier-Maschine" (rb. 60s) from the Kollektion of horniger/Berlin:

#HardwarePreservation #Minicomputers

Wir laden ein: Am Freitag, den 3.2.22 findet wieder unser Paper-Zirkel statt. Dafür haben wir @nilsreiter mit seinem brandneuen Paper zur Operationalisierung in den #DigitalHumanities eingeladen. Mitdiskutieren kann jede*r (auch ohne das Paper zuvor gelesen zu haben): https://dhtheorien.hypotheses.org/1266 #DH

Come work with us! We are looking for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in #Computational Social Science with a focus on #communication 📢

📄 Applications due: 1 Mar 2023
▶️ Latest start date: 1 Aug 2024
💻 Possible approaches include: #agentbased or other #computerbased #modeling, #simulations, #NetworkAnalysis, #MachineLearning, #AI, #NLP, and more

🔗 More info: https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/assistant-professorship-with-tenure-track-in-computational-social-science-with-a-focus-on-communication/99520e04-afd8-444d-91ea-33ca08ba8ea3

Spread the word! 🙏
#commodon #CSS @commodon @communicationscholars @ICAHDQ @ICA_CAT @dgpuk_meth @digikomm

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𝑆𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑟'𝑠!
Loved working
@ifkw_lmu
with some of the brightest
and nicest folks in our
discipline.

I'm leaving for #Innsbruck,
for a fast-tenure-track
position devoted to the study
of 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 and
𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

Please consider applying for
this 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗗𝗼𝗰 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 at the
division (6 yrs, 100%,
deadline: Feb. 7th) and/or
help me draw attention to
this vacancy by retweeting
/ retooting.

https://tinyurl.com/postdocibk

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂!
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Création de l'association SVGA (Swiss Video Game Archivists) : https://svga.ch/2022-12-17-creation/

Only one funding application and one evaluation for joint research projects: the SNSF now also has a lead agency agreement with the USA's National Science Foundation. Researchers can send us applications as of April 2023.

https://sohub.io/lt0a

It would ideal, if the Offizin Haag-Drugulin in Dresden could be saved. It is a small Letterpress printing office with a very large amount of equipment. It dates back to the 1820s and has a great deal of foundry type. It prints books set by Monotype hot-metal composition, too, and has—I think this is correct—matrices for every British Monotype face ever officially released, thanks to its having purchased the lending libraries from German Monotype and Monotype in Salfords. https://www.verein-fuer-die-schwarze-kunst.de/die-zukunft-der-offizin-haag-drugulin-ist-ungewiss/

"A Byte Sized History of Computer Typography" Feb 14th free zoom lecture

from our friends at the Letterform Archive:

https://letterformarchive.org/products/a-byte-sized-history-of-computer-typography/

A. Michael Noll's 1966 paper comparing a Piet Mondrian painting to his computer-generated version prefigures so many of our modern themes, from generative art, to perceptual studies judging human-vs-computer-generated, even to crediting the computer as collaborator, to non-diversity of the participants

I shared my first impressions with SEdit, the structure editor of Medley Interlisp. I picked up structure editing faster than expected and now it feels second nature.

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/medley-interlisp-structure-editing-first-impressions

#interlisp #lisp