Merry Christmas with TikZ and Overleaf! I wish you a TikZ or #TeXLaTeX book underneath the Christmas tree! 🎁🎄

Charles Darwin perfectly captures the joy of writing: "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything" - Oct. 1, 1861.

In Finland it's standard for people to have a gap in their CV of some years during their 20's. In job interviews it's accepted as normal and politely ignored. The section title for it in the default CV layout provided by the state translates roughly to "dark night of the soul"

What the hell are italics? First: proper italics aren't just the same letters but slanted — they've been slightly redesigned. Second: it turns out they come from Italy, hence the name. But the story begins with a man called Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg...

We had a very special guest visiting us at JMM 2024 (spoilers: it's Don Knuth)! 🤩 💚 🎉 #TeXLaTeX #Overleaf

My dissertation abstract after I wedge my three different papers into it

Peak math geekdom right here

Oooh childhood memories

Is it a growing book debt of shame or am I just in massive book credit 📚

I’ve got some good news for this Monday morning. You can now download your pdf right from the Overleaf dashboard.

Cursive Letters xkcd.com/2912

With no rain for several months in many areas of Thailand and a record breaking heatwave, a rain-making ceremony was held. Traditionally, a real cat would be used, but it seems the locals decided on Doraemon instead—a modern twist against animal cruelty.

Bracket Symbols xkcd.com/2954

If you’ve been given a #TeXLaTeX template (or sample .tex file, or doc class .cls file) to write your manuscript, report or thesis, be careful not to load incompatible packages! In this blog post I’ve listed some common gotchas to look out for. tex.my/2024/08/21/bew…

Had this idea right as I woke up

From #CTAN: LianTze Lim submitted the beamertheme-mirage package. Version: 1.1 2024-10-24 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: A beamer theme with dark and light colour schemes ctan.org/pkg/beamerthem… #TeXLaTeX 📽️

From #CTAN: Takayuki Yato submitted the bxcoloremoji package. Version: 1.0 2024-11-11 License: mit Summary description: Use color emojis more conveniently ctan.org/pkg/bxcoloremo… #TeXLaTeX