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Here’s a fantastic post by Chevy Ray about how they made a dozens of pixel fonts using Rust: Kerning was a big time hog when making my previous font packs. Because the tools I was using required every kerning pair to be manually entered, it was incredibly time consuming and also extremely error prone. Look at it...
It is no secret that I detest the smartphone culture in which we live, and I look forward to the day that I can ditch mine in the river. However, that might be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I think that if we keep ourselves disciplined, we can use the glass slab for good, but it means being militant...
Transformers 00s Store Exclusives This page was created as an entry into the 32-Bit Cafe’s Codejam #5. While not necessarily a “complicated topic”, it is a topic I can ramble on about for hours. The early- to mid-2000s period of the Transformers franchise had an interesting product strategy, one that Hasbro seemed...
Instead of an omnibus mega-post, this investigation into JavaScript-first frontend culture and how it broke US public services has been released in four parts. Other posts in the series: Reckoning: Part 2 — Object Lesson Reckoning: Part 3 — Caprock Reckoning: Part 4 — The Way Out When you live in the shadow of a...
Multiple Emacs modes recognize URIs so that you can follow them in a web browser, usually with a mouse left click. In modes that do not support it, one can still call browse-url-at-point interactively with the cursor positioned on a URI. I wanted to make link handling more convenient for some time; this is what I...
