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Matthew Butterick is also the author of Beautiful Racket https://beautifulracket.com/ https://beautifulracket.com/ and several fonts https://practicaltypography
by jamesliudotcc 4y ago
Matthew Butterick is also the author of Beautiful Racket https://beautifulracket.com/ https://beautifulracket.com/ and several fonts https://practicaltypography.com/mb-fonts.html https://practicaltypography.com/mb-fonts.html.
As an ex-lawyer turned coder and one-time type setter for a school paper, I can only marvel at his accomplishments.
- mark_l_watson 4y agoI saw him present one time, perhaps it was RacketFest (Racket programming get together with lots of demos). He does a lot of creative project and his Racket books look good. Few things are better than someone having a personal need for something (in his case his own typesetting and publishing tools), builds the tools, then writes books about it.
- JHonaker 4y agoMy favorite thing he’s doing right now is suing GitHub/Microsoft for blatantly violating almost all the licenses on their hosted code for GPT. https://githubcopilotinvestigation.com/ https://githubcopilotinvestigation.com/ I’m also an enormous fan of his book, Beautiful Racket. It’s what set me off on the path of being a self-identified Scheme programmer.