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  • Typst

    You can use their online web-editor (similar to OverLeaf for LaTeX) or download the open-source engine and run it locally (there are extensions available for many text editors).

    Compared to LaTeX I find it much more comfortable to work with. It comes with sane, modern defaults and doesn’t need any plugins just to generate a (localized) bibliography or include links.

    Since Typst is very young compared to LaTeX I’m sure that there are numerous docs / workflows that can’t be reproduced at the moment but if you don’t need some special feature I’d recommend giving it a shot.




  • I started out with WireGuard. As you said its a little finicky to get the config to work but after that it was great.

    As long as it was just my devices this was fine and simple but as soon as you expand this service to family members or friends (including not-so-technical people) it gets too annoying to manually deal with the configs.

    And that’s where Tailscale / Headscale comes in to save the day because now your workload as the admin is reduced to pointing their apps to the right server and having them enter their username and password.






  • The “add to home screen” button turns into an “install” button when Firefox detects that the website is a progressive web app (PWA). Other browsers do the same.

    The difference is that a PWA can define a custom icon and name for the “app” button on your home screen and that it can use some clever caching making many PWAs offline capable (meaning you don’t need an internet connection to open the web page).

    I understand the reluctance to press “install” but in the case of PWAs the install size is tiny and fully contained in Firefox and you get the added benefit of faster startup / loading times due to caching.