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Posts

  • Post #2236237

    Class 2 assignment of @robstenson’s Coldtype course: “modify the drumkit.py file to look different”. Finished before Sunday midnight – two days early! Sound and font (Obviously Variable) provided by the course.

  • Post #2236233

    Fucking hell. Turned out I’m not insane – indeed Safari and Chrome do blend mode calculation in the display’s color profile, not sRGB: https://danielcwilson.com/blog/2020/03/blend-modes-in-spaaaace/

  • Post #2236232

    Really impressive how bad this is. Reeks of US corporate superficiality. Even worse than Unicode Consortium’s rebranding some year ago. https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2025/new-logo/

  • Post #2236231

    A panel chat after the Vite documentary’s premiere today at #ViteConf, featuring @antfu.me or “The Fu”, among others.

  • Post #2236229

    Solid advice from @atila.io at #ViteConf.

  • Post #2236228

    Got this cutie from @todde.tv’s Vite quiz at #ViteConf!

  • Post #2236227

    Graphite, a node-based, procedure design tool: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FWXQLF-graphite-2026/ #FOSDEM

  • Post #2236226

    The node-based, procedural design tool Graphite’s talk at FOSDEM has its recording online now: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FWXQLF-graphite-2026/

  • Post #2236224

    Apparently I’ve been incorrectly claiming on my website that I’m a vice-chair of the Script WG, due to an editing error: https://lianghai.dev 🫠

  • Post #2236223

    If you use harfbuzzjs (or if you didn’t know you could use HB in JS), have a look at this PR https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzzjs/pull/176 where Khaled is rapidly converting the project to TS and ESM based on suggestions from a long standing issue (https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzzjs/issues/99).

  • Post #2236222

    harfbuzzjs, HarfBuzz’s Wasm build and JS bindings, has released the first beta after the recent major refactoring (I’ve been contributing some ideas): TypeScript, ESM, JS classes, automatic memory management for Wasm, … Go give it a try! https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzzjs/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.1 (Also available on npm.)