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A match made in heaven: academic writing with latex and git

Alternative titles:

  • A match made in heavenhell: academic writing with latex and git
  • Procrastinating writing by over-engineering my workflow

If you are like me, you can happily write code for hours and hours on end but as soon as you need to write a paper you end up staring at a blank page. Luckily, I have come up with a fool proof way to trick myself into thinking I am coding when in reality I am finalling getting around to writing up the work my supervisor has been wanting for the last month. Introducing Latex and git- this was my approach to draft a review paper recently and in this blopig post I will go through some of the ups and downs I had using these tools.

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LaTeX Beamer Template with Logos

Alternative Title: The tragic story of how I got trapped making slides with latex.

Typically after giving a presentation at least one person will approach me and ask if they could have access to my custom latex template to make slides with beamer that don’t look rubbish.

TL;DR Yes you can: https://github.com/npqst/latex-beamer-template

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