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Hilary Palmén (@[email protected])
Sadly, Christopher Simpkins (@csimpkins) died on June 20th 2025. He was kind, patient deeply curious and knowledgeable. I miss his humble, enlightening, and cheerful ways. Chris managed the development of the recently published Google Sans Code typeface.
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Thomas Phinney (@[email protected])
The Chrome browser on Android, Linux and ChromeOS now does all its web font processing using a Rust-based library (Skrifa) instead of its old C++ library (FreeType).This is part of a general trend. If you look at open jobs by programming language required
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Simon Cozens (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 imageKim Kyung-Hoon took this photo of a press conference by the CEOs of Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi, and accidentally created the perfect album cover.
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Simon Cozens (@[email protected])
I just discovered that there's a character U+A76F LATIN SMALL LETTER CON, usual glyph name "con". If your file format stores this as e.g. con.glyph, it will crash git on Windows.This is because in 1983, "con" was MS-DOS's magical filename for the console
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