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Chris Simpkins @csimpkins

Moved to Mastodon. FOSS: fosstodon.org/@chris, Fonts: typo.social/@csimpkins

Joined June 2008
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Shell Script Best Practices sharats.me/posts/shell-scrip…
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☁ Puff ☁ - The deep stack framework. Puff is a batteries included "deep stack" for Python. It's an experiment to minimize the barrier between Python and Rust to unlock the full potential of high level languages. github.com/hansonkd/puff

GitHub - hansonkd/puff: ☁ Puff ☁ - The deep stack framework.

☁ Puff ☁ - The deep stack framework. Contribute to hansonkd/puff development by creating an account on GitHub.

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fontguy@mickduggan
18 Oct 2022
Published today, some thoughts on VTT and future ideas for Variable font hinting github.com/googlefonts/VTT-D…

GitHub - googlefonts/VTT-Deficiencies: Research, define and expand on, current deficiencies in VTT....

Research, define and expand on, current deficiencies in VTT. Generate new ideas for Variable font hinting - googlefonts/VTT-Deficiencies

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The Google logo: a history creativebloq.com/news/google…
The Daily Heller: There is Nothing Artificial About AI Type Design – PRINT Magazine printmag.com/daily-heller/th…

The Daily Heller: There is Nothing Artificial About AI Type Design – PRINT Magazine

For Andrea A. Trabucco-Campos and Martín Azambuja, “Artificial Typography” is born out of curiosity about the AI space.

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WIRED
@WIRED
1 Oct 2022
Know what this thing is? On this day in 1982, Sony began selling the first commercially-available compact disc player (or CD player): The Sony CDP-101 went on sale in Japan for $1,000. 📸: Alamy
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Ned Batchelder@nedbat
27 Sep 2022
Want to make nested dicts easily? defaultdict can do it. This is also called auto-vivification. It's turtles all the way down! 🐢 🐢 🐢 More here: stackoverflow.com/questions/…
Demonstration of recursive dict construction with defaultdict. Full text at https://gist.github.com/94b74dfced04208921ca65592a163e51

ALT Demonstration of recursive dict construction with defaultdict. Full text at https://gist.github.com/94b74dfced04208921ca65592a163e51

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What Figma plans to do inside Adobe theverge.com/23376442/figma-…

What Figma plans to do inside Adobe

“Creativity and productivity are starting to merge more. I think this is a general trend.”

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dosisod/refurb: A tool for refurbishing and modernizing Python codebases github.com/dosisod/refurb #python

GitHub - dosisod/refurb: A tool for refurbishing and modernizing Python codebases

A tool for refurbishing and modernizing Python codebases - dosisod/refurb

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AI for the Next Era greylock.com/greymatter/sam-…

AI for the Next Era | Greylock

Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman interviews OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The AI research and deployment company's primary mission is to develop and promote AI technology that benefits humanity....

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How Big Is Infinity? quantamagazine.org/how-big-i…

How Big Is Infinity? | Quanta Magazine

Of all the endless questions children and mathematicians have asked about infinity, one of the most fascinating has to do with its size.

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The Math Behind Font Rasterization youtu.be/LaYPoMPRSlk

The Math Behind Font Rasterization | How it Works

#SoMEJoin the Discord: https://discord.gg/4tHeAkxNg7If you have ...

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Vectro Type Foundry@vectrotype
26 Sep 2022
Variable fonts are super fun to pair with sound, so we built a little visualizer for our variable font WHOA. Paired with the Double Knot synth by Lorre Mill. We’ve also been using this synth heavily in the @futurefonts Weekly Updates for music and sound effects.
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NASA
@NASA
26 Sep 2022
Don't want to miss a thing? Watch the final moments from the #DARTMission on its collision course with asteroid Dimporphos.
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"I drew one master and used COLRv1 variable paints to do all the magic"
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Google Fonts
@googlefonts
20 Sep 2022
The @stbridelibrary has been digitizing parts of their amazing collection so it can be accessed online. It spans from 1616-1830, representing the leading foundries of the time including Caslon, Figgins, Thorowgood, Thorne and Didot. Check it out here: archive.org/details/early-ty…
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COLRv1 and Rethinking Variations simoncozens.github.io/colrv1…
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Building the future of the command line github.com/readme/featured/f…

Building the future of the command line

The command line has come a long way since its days as a blinking cursor on a blank screen. @klintron explain how open source is making it both more powerful and more user-friendly:

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Saurabh Sharma@xconsau
17 Sep 2022
Replying to @googlefonts
@googlefonts v2 API URL maker for php projects and #WordPress themes and plugins. github.com/xconsau/googlefon…
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