Chris Simpkins

Shell Script Best Practices sharats.me/posts/shell-sc…

☁ 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

Published today, some thoughts on VTT and future ideas for Variable font hinting github.com/googlefonts/VT…

dwrite font parsing ported to Rust? 😲😲😲 learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/…

The Google logo: a history creativebloq.com/news/google-lo…

The Daily Heller: There is Nothing Artificial About AI Type Design – PRINT Magazine printmag.com/daily-heller/t…

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

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/6517…

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

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

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

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

The Math Behind Font Rasterization youtu.be/LaYPoMPRSlk

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

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.

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

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

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-…

COLRv1 and Rethinking Variations simoncozens.github.io/colrv1-rocks/