Update on my website maintenance woes: My websites had been down for the last 12 hours or so, so I decided to look on some way to restart them. Then I found a button in my provider's administration interface that purged all objects in my "Varnish Cache". I remembered that the "Varnish Cache" came up from time to time in the error messages, so I clicked it.

And my websites were suddenly online again.

This is an obvious improvement to my prior situation, and gives me hope that this trick will work in the future as well. But I would like to understand what the actual problem was (beyond it having to do with the Varnish Cache), so that maybe I can prevent from reoccurring in the future in the first place.

I don't want this to become another "sacrifice a black goat at midnight" thing, like with certain aspects of my #TeXLaTeX installation - where I know that some things will work, but not _why_ they work.

Goal for this weekend:

Finish the #TeXLaTeX typesetting for this month's translations, three weeks early.

After that, I shall see. There's an article to write, a book manuscript to rework, and of course I should get started on December's translations (as usual for this time of the year, more Wild Hunt stories!), since I will be away on vacation after December 20th and won't be able to do further typesetting.

@rollplusheart LaTeX. It can typeset goblins while giving each one random stats, then works out what the HP and Damage should be, based on those stats.

#TeXLaTeX

Update on on // foss.events:

Call for Participation and Registration have been added for

DANTE by DANTE e.V. on 11-13 March 2026 in Firma WIWA Wilhelm Wagner GmbH & Co.KG, Werk 2 in #Lahnau-Waldgirmes, #Germany

Find out more on
https://foss.events/2026/03-11-dante.html

Connect via official hashtag(s): #TeXLaTeX

#foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #Europe

From #CTAN:

Lars Madsen submitted an update to the memoir package.

Version: 3.8.4b 2025-11-04
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Typeset fiction, non-fiction and mathematical books

https://ctan.org/pkg/memoir

#TeXLaTeX

From #CTAN:

Jasper Habicht submitted an update to the rpgicons package.

Version: 2.2.0 2025-11-05
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Icons for tabletop role-playing games

https://ctan.org/pkg/rpgicons

#TeXLaTeX

From #CTAN:

Jonathan Walls submitted the LydType package.

Version: 1.0 2025-11-03
License: lppl1.3c ofl

Summary description: Typing in the Lydian alphabet

https://ctan.org/pkg/lydtype

#TeXLaTeX

From #CTAN:

Daniel Flipo submitted an update to the erewhon-math package.

Version number: 0.71 2025-11-03
License type: ofl lppl1.3c

Summary description: Utopia based OpenType Math font

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/erewhon-math

#TeXLaTeX #fonts

From #CTAN:

Daniel Flipo submitted an update to the xcharter-math package.

Version number: 0.71 2025-11-03
License type: ofl lppl1.3c

Summary description: XCharter-based OpenType Math font for LuaTeX and XeTeX

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/xcharter-math

#TeXLaTeX #fonts

From #CTAN:

Daniel Flipo submitted an update to the kpfonts-otf package.

Version number: 0.71 2025-11-03
License type: ofl lppl1.3

Summary description: OpenType versions of the kpfonts (Type1) designed by Christophe Caignaert

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/kpfonts-otf

#TeXLaTeX #fonts

From #CTAN:

Bob Tennent submitted an update to the MusiXTeX package.

Version: 1.40 2025-11-02
License: gpl2+

Summary description: Sophisticated music typesetting

https://ctan.org/pkg/musixtex

#TeXLaTeX 🎶

Tiens, il y a une instance #Pleroma #Debian.

Et je découvre par la même occasion TexLab, qui m'a l'air très intéressant (et en #rustlang pour couronner le tout) :

https://pleroma.debian.social/objects/7d12c4c1-9582-4676-9e62-13ffb4767e82

#texlatex #debian #fédivers

@theo_stern

Du kannst durch solche eigenen Befehle praktisch alles erledigen, ohne Dir Sorgen machen zu müssen:
Die Befehle werden durch einen #SPBuchsatz-eigenen Präprozessor als erstes expandiert, ehe #TeXLaTeX den Text zu sehen bekommt, es sind also KEINE TeX-Makros.

From #CTAN:

Qirui Zeng submitted the terminalcode package.

Version: 0.9.0 2025-11-02
License: mit

Summary description: Terminal-style code display with ANSI colors, UTF-8 box-drawing, and dark/light themes

https://github.com/LoveElysia1314/terminalcode-sty
https://ctan.org/pkg/terminalcode

#TeXLaTeX

From #CTAN:

Alceu Frigeri submitted an update to the tikzcalendarnotes package.

Version: 1.1 2025-11-02
License: lppl1.3c gpl3+

Summary description: Highlighting, marking and annotating dates in a TikZ calendar in a systematic way

https://ctan.org/pkg/tikzcalendarnotes

#TeXLaTeX 📅

From #CTAN:

Daniel Nagel submitted an update to the fontawesome7 package.

Version: 7.1.0-1
License: ofl lppl1.3c

Summary description: Font Awesome 7 with LaTeX support

https://ctan.org/pkg/fontawesome7

#TeXLaTeX #fonts

From #CTAN:

The LaTeX Project Team submitted an update to the picinpar package.

Version: 1.3a
License: gpl2+

Summary description: Insert pictures into paragraphs

https://ctan.org/pkg/picinpar

#TeXLaTeX

From #CTAN:

Hironori Kitagawa submitted an update to the luatexja package.

Version: 20251102.0
License: bsd

Summary description: Typeset Japanese with Lua(La)TeX

https://ctan.org/pkg/luatexja

#TeXLaTeX 🇯🇵

From #CTAN:

Herbert Voß submitted an update to the JuliaMono package.

Version: 0.06 2025-11-02
License: lppl1.3 ofl

Summary description: Support for the TrueType font JuliaMono

#TeXLaTeX #fonts

From #CTAN:

Alceu Frigeri submitted an update to the tikzquests package.

Version: 2.2a 2025-11-02
License: lppl1.3c gpl3+

Summary description: A parametric questions’ repositories framework

https://ctan.org/pkg/tikzquests

#TeXLaTeX