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Howd you make a website from typst? I would love a way to draft my website in typst.","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-10T00:35:36.463610Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://programming.dev/comment/18031572","local":false,"path":"0.11148678.11155060","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":9951707,"name":"rutrum","banned":false,"published":"2025-03-01T14:16:03.627340Z","actor_id":"https://programming.dev/u/rutrum","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":20},"post":{"id":4272100,"name":"In Praise of the Contrarian Stack","url":"https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/contrarian-stack/en","creator_id":4808201,"community_id":190,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-07-09T11:18:34.400566Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"embed_title":"In Praise of the Contrarian Stack","embed_description":"The author discusses their preference for choosing unconventional or \"underdog\" tech stacks, which they playfully term \"**contrarian stacks**,\" as opposed to mainstream or \"orthodox stacks.\" They share past experiences such as using Sinatra over Rails, MooTools over Prototype, and Solid over React. 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All in all it’s a really well-designed language and I’m enjoying writing it. I have some complaints but nothing deal-breaking.","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-09T13:30:10.248421Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/19552561","local":false,"path":"0.11148678.11148723.11148990","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":168,"name":"2xsaiko","display_name":"dblsaiko","avatar":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/207fd679-3cda-43f6-9970-9acdbf32336e.png","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-12T13:05:59.542320Z","actor_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/2xsaiko","bio":"she/they ⚧︎. 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[This is the source for my site](https://git.dblsaiko.net/web) and [here's the Typst documentation](https://typst.app/docs/reference/html/).","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-10T02:00:09.740487Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/19564586","local":false,"path":"0.11148678.11155060.11155632","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":168,"name":"2xsaiko","display_name":"dblsaiko","avatar":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/207fd679-3cda-43f6-9970-9acdbf32336e.png","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-12T13:05:59.542320Z","actor_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/2xsaiko","bio":"she/they ⚧︎. 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