Chantal Galvez

Engineering experiences, loving penguins. All puns are completely intended.

[Columbia Daily Spectator @ColumbiaSpec]

Professor Jae Woo Lee’s Advanced Programming is an infamous requirement for all computer science majors. Hear how 12 years ago, he came to design the infamous curriculum he teaches today, and how the computer science industry has evolved in that time.

https://t.co/CsgpJxHzKG

[Chantal Galvez @chantilli]

@blambot Some discussion on the google fonts issues about how fonts don’t really help the issue

https://t.co/7yaa3OfbiN

[Chantal Galvez @chantilli]

@OHnoTypeCo @bonappetit It was the first thing I noticed when I saw the cover 😌I’ve been eying the font for too long hehe

[Riley Cran @rileycran]

What exactly is kerning? What is spacing? How are they different? Let’s talk about it!

THREAD 🧵:

[Chantal Galvez @chantilli]

@MathieuLoutre I really enjoyed your talk! The OT solution was so fascinating, and the font is super fun!

[Thornton Tomasetti @ttinc]

The @sloan_kettering David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care’s design puts patients first & is one of the most resilient in NYC. Andrew Altamirano discusses @ttinc’s engineering for the @PerkinsEastman & Ennead Architects-designed project in @STRUCTUREmag. https://t.co/Lpxl0GGubg

[murmurs @mrmrs_]

Open source color system

- 132 colors
- 5,390 accessible color combinations
- The first 6 steps in each scale are accessible with white, the last 6 steps are accessible with black
- Export as CSS, JS, JSON, or Sass

https://t.co/JSDDbOMHav

[Figma @figma]

This is a story of a Figma bug that wasn’t a bug at all.


In November of 2019, one of our users reported this: ⁝ MW

[XKCD Comic @xkcdComic]

March 2020 https://t.co/TL0ZJeXOTN https://t.co/zX17eyJzYH

[Microsoft @Microsoft]

We need to talk. What should our next default font be?

[Incunabula @incunabula]

This is an untouched box of the legendary Hagoromo Fulltouch chalk, made in Japan circa 2014. The company closed down in 2015, and while a version of the chalk is now made in Korea, purists mourn the loss of the unsurpassable original - the finest blackboard chalk ever made. 1/

[Google Doodles @GoogleDoodles]

Today’s #GoogleDoodle celebrates Ñ—not only a letter but a representation of Hispanic heritage.

#Didyouknow? To save time & shorten words, 12th-century scribes wrote a tiny "n" (a tilde or virgulilla) on top to create Ñ ✍️

🎨 by guest artist @min_wins→ https://t.co/STEavG1ZaU

[The New York Times @nytimes]

If you sent a PDF on your computer today, you can thank Chuck Geschke.

Geschke, who worked with a colleague to create a way of sending digital documents to a printer and co-founded Adobe, died on Friday at 81. https://t.co/h3J8F5LeOr

[NYT Graphics @nytgraphics]

The New York Times is making additional data from our coronavirus tracking effort available on GitHub, starting with a data set on virus cases and deaths inside U.S. prisons and jails. https://t.co/7HB9BaAiDu

[Una 🇺🇦 @Una]

Have you seen the new flexbox debugging features in Chrome DevTools?!

Prettttyyy darn cool

https://t.co/sEBfAPobqD

[frédérik ruys @fruys]

Below the water line of the #Suez canal. Incredible how narrow and shallow compared to mega ships like #evergiven.

[Chantal Galvez @chantilli]

@bentographics @RightFontApp Months later and the issue is still happening

[Mike Bostock @mbostock]

It’s been ten years since I pushed the first release of D3.js to GitHub. Have I learned anything? I hope so… but it’s a journey. https://t.co/MM4K870IiJ