THE VIDEO SHELF · programming humor and typesetting
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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.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN readers point to it as an example of Tom7's ridiculous-but-brilliant programming projects, here tied to license parody and typesetting.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- suckerpinch
- Topic
- programming humor and typesetting
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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This was made by Tom7, who has many amazing videos about doing ridiculous things with programming on YouTube. The talk on this work is here: [VIDEO]
josephg on Hacker News · 2024-06
In GNU Justified Public Licenseand for anyone in the TeX User Group there is this fun experiment in Typesetting which starts off with the amazing TeX origin story [VIDEO]
jimmySixDOF on Hacker News · 2024-06
In LaTeX is the first PDF/UA-2 compliance accessible PDF producerIf you want more of this: [VIDEO] . You can skip to 7:45 if the long intro bores you, but it's worth listening to it.
progval on Hacker News · 2025-10
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