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As I said at the end of [a previous post][fnref], I had planned to figure out the footnote formatting for this blog. I am an academic at heart, after all, and if there’s one thing academics love, it’s footnotes.¹ After some finagling, I’ve figured out something that works for me, and since the people² are clamoring to know my secrets, here they are.

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I’m currently in the process of writing my dissertation (hooray?). For a number of reasons, I’m writing it using LaTeX: I can write in plain text, which means I get all of the plain-text tools I already use: vim, git, etc. (and can avoid opening Microsoft Word). My dissertation is about jazz and transformational theory: the TeX macro system means I can define a macro for annoying things I get tired of typing.

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Last weekend, I released my first real open source project, “Mr. Poole” (available on Github). Mr. Poole is a helper for Jekyll, which is the software I use to write this blog. In the several days I was using jekyll, I got annoyed at creating scaffolding for posts/drafts. It was taking so long (maybe like 5 seconds every time I had to do it), so obviously the solution was to spend many many hours writing a script to cut this 5 seconds down to 2.

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