Chris Simpkins

Moved to Mastodon. FOSS: Fonts:

[Chris Simpkins @csimpkins]

Shell Script Best Practices

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[Chris Simpkins @csimpkins]

☁ 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.

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[fontguy @mickduggan]

Published today, some thoughts on VTT and future ideas for Variable font hinting

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[Chris Simpkins @csimpkins]

The Google logo: a history

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The Daily Heller: There is Nothing Artificial About AI Type Design – PRINT Magazine https://t.co/r2omAM5rXZ

[WIRED @WIRED]

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

[Ned Batchelder @nedbat]

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: https://t.co/FDHOIeTxMq

[Chris Simpkins @csimpkins]

What Figma plans to do inside Adobe

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[Chris Simpkins @csimpkins]

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

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[Chris Simpkins @csimpkins]

AI for the Next Era

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[Chris Simpkins @csimpkins]

How Big Is Infinity?

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[Chris Simpkins @csimpkins]

The Math Behind Font Rasterization

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[Chris Simpkins @csimpkins]

@n8willis Another OT table detection technique that might be helpful in your Emoji font implementation notes thread

[Source Foundry @sourcefoundry]

TIL

You can grep font binaries for table tag strings. Found this in an old TypeDrawers thread. Thanks @simoncozens!

[Vectro Type Foundry @vectrotype]

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.

[NASA @NASA]

Don't want to miss a thing? Watch the final moments from the #DARTMission on its collision course with asteroid Dimporphos.

[Chris Simpkins @csimpkins]

"I drew one master and used COLRv1 variable paints to do all the magic"

[Google Fonts @googlefonts]

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: https://t.co/A2MHyWBh3B

[Chris Simpkins @csimpkins]

COLRv1 and Rethinking Variations

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[Chris Simpkins @csimpkins]

Building the future of the command line

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