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Tangentially, I do use a LaTeX inspired Hugo theme[1].
It’s not perfect, but I like it. I worked on math textbooks and LaTeX as a side gig in college and it’s very comfortable for me.
Probably off putting to a non nerd audience, but it’s a self indulgent site, so whatever.
A LaTeX static site generator could be cool itself. I markdown so much these days it might be refreshing to revisit my past. One day I’ll Google that, I guess. :)
[1] https://github.com/queensferryme/hugo-theme-texify
Any comments about how related the Linus Jitter Dance (btw, glad to see that djb isn't the only one making new dance moves..) is to JitterRNG: https://www.chronox.de/jent.html ?
The PDF linked to on the page goes into more detail but that is measured across a number of CPUs and has good performance in both amount and entropy quality produced. You do need to measure it per CPU, but it does comply with SP 800-90B which is what the US Gov considers the standards for randomness.
Interestingly, it seems the Jitter Dance has previously been discussed on HN quite a bit:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Though this is the first time I recall hearing about it.