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Thanks for your questions! 1. The documentation for HTML and CSS parsers is pretty straightforward and easier to implement, so I thought it was better to write them myself. 2. It f…

Thank you for your kind words and for noticing the work behind this. Building an HTML and CSS rendering engine has been a long journey with many surprises. I have been maintaining …

Hi! We haven’t specifically tested Colab notebooks. They’re tricky because of dynamic layouts and tables, but simpler notebook exports to HTML might work better. Any feedback or te…

Typst and PlutoPrint serve somewhat different purposes. Typst is more like a modern typesetting language, focusing on fully programmatic document layouts with its own syntax, while…

Interesting. I will give it a try. By the way, why is converting to HTML first a problem for you?

PlutoPrint supports a large subset of CSS, including flexbox for most common layouts, but it’s not a full browser engine, so there are some limitations. You can see a more complete…

Thanks for the feedback. We’ve tested PlutoPrint on multiple platforms, including Windows and Linux, and it generally works well there. Mac-specific issues like crashes or empty ou…

That’s a good point. Using Puppeteer or a headless browser gives you essentially full web platform support. The tradeoff is that it comes with a heavier runtime and more moving par…

WeasyPrint is great, but PlutoPrint takes a different angle: the engine is all C++, so it’s faster and lighter on memory. It can render directly to PNG as well as PDF, and has stro…

Hi everyone, I built PlutoPrint because I needed a simple way to generate beautiful PDFs and images directly from HTML with Python. Most of the tools I tried felt heavy, tricky to …

Hi everyone, I built PlutoPrint because I needed a simple way to generate beautiful PDFs and images directly from HTML with Python. Most of the tools I tried felt heavy, tricky to …

Clean, thoughtful, and practical. Curious, have you tried benchmarking your Haskell solver against an SMT solver (like Z3 or CVC5) to compare performance or expressiveness?

I feel this so much. File IO on flaky or network drives is a nightmare, and blocking calls make it worse. It’s good to see the async iterator and substring search moving forward, t…

Nice breakdown. Seeing each core as its own machine passing messages through cache lines makes the usual atomic patterns much easier to reason about. This mindset also explains why…

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I appreciate Lanier’s reminder that AI is ultimately a collective artifact, not an independent mind. Calling it "large language social collaboration" might be clunky, but the point…

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