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by damieng 5mo ago
You can get nicer 5x5 fonts amd it was not that uncommon back in the day. 4 wide is not too bad if you make the center of M and W just two pixels inset from top or bottom respectively or borrow the spacing column. Plenty of systems did it l
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by damieng 9mo ago
I remember when these first started appearing in Windows was around the time toolbars became popular. I think the idea was the most common ones had icons which matched the toolbar button so you could start with the slower-but-more-comprehen
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by damieng 10mo ago
I also went with an Xfinity cable and Frontier fibre combo in about 2018 I think. I just bought a Synology RT2600 router at the time and plugged each provider in then set it to load balanced. Reliability and speeds were great. Possibly not
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by damieng 10mo ago
If you use LINQ and have ever used areay Contains youre about to find out it's not going to be smooth. They knew about this for a year but decided coercing to span in an expression tree despite it being invalid wasn't worth fixing
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by damieng 1y ago
Even better download it, subset it then base64 encode it into your CSS for zero FOUC. https://damieng.com/blog/2021/12/03/using-variable-webfonts-...
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by damieng 1y ago
I'd argue putting CloudFront on top of S3 is less complex than getting the permissions and static sharing setup right on S3 itself.
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by damieng 1y ago
In my experience the type of developer using JS for their Web apps rarely overlaps with someone comfortable doing high performance C++ runtime work.
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by damieng 2y ago
I wrote a LINQ provider (.Net) for Elasticsearch. Was quite the challenge dealing with the sorts of quirks and subtle differences between the two. Case sensitivity and the tokenization are also hurdles to overcome but mapping Group by to El
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by damieng 2y ago
It's a trade-off. Have every single instance of m look squished vs it might touch another m or w somewhere else and look odd. I've done fonts in both categories.
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by damieng 2y ago
My own collection of free 8x8 fonts might suit your needs at https://damieng.com/zx-origins Looking forward to trying this exciting rust tool in my chain as well to see what additional formats I can include. (Update: Seems
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by damieng 3y ago
https://youtu.be/rf5o5liZxnA?feature=shared&t=542 has a demonstration of NextStep 3 (released September 1992) that clearly shows a computer icon that Steve refers to as "My Computer" and then moves into hittin
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by damieng 3y ago
"NeXTStep had its Dock, but that doesn't have menus or a status icon." NeXTStep not only had menus but tear-off dockable menus/sub-menus that are superior to any menus we have in apps today. It's clearly present in
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by damieng 3y ago
"The task bar, the Start menu, the system tray, "My Computer", "Network Neighbourhood", all that: all original, patented Microsoft designs. There was nothing like it before. " Apart from, you know, NextStep w
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by damieng 3y ago
Surprised an article of this depth didn't mention that the Topaz font changed between Kickstart 1 and 2.
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by damieng 3y ago
I'm in PAL land so it's almost 1 :)
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by damieng 3y ago
Cool, thanks! It took longer than I care to admit. They're redrawn on the fly and it also means the 2x and 3x options can render it without upscaling blur.
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by damieng 3y ago
Most of the 8-bit machines had quite square pixels (Spectrum, Commodore 64) but machines with multiple resolutions often had modes that doubled the horizontal res (C128, PCW, BBC Mode 3) giving rectangular pixels and by the time the 16-bits
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by damieng 3y ago
Fantastic book, has a place on my shelf in my office and I've been lucky enough to shoot the breeze with the author on Zoom!
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by damieng 3y ago
I thought about setting up my camera and pointing it at my Princeton 15" multisync CRT and scripting a live screenshot of every font but that seemed... overkill.
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by damieng 3y ago
The process involves me creating a raw 768 byte "ch8" file for the Spectrum then running it through a bash script that creates the .psf and .bdf using psf2tools. https://gist.github.com/damieng/b2e279c72146ee4
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by damieng 3y ago
There are many of them. The one that comes with Artist II seems to be very popular. That said I have a few of my own takes of the magnetic/ocr fonts there.
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by damieng 3y ago
The simulated stuff is all custom code for reading the raw binary font file and then custom drawing it over the screenshot using canvas. Nuxt is just used as a static site generator for the rest of the site.
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by damieng 3y ago
Copyright and fonts is a minefield. Hoping a credit isn't too much to ask for all the work.
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by damieng 6y ago
Chrome uses Skia which - on Windows - uses DirectWrite which is basically native however... DirectWrite has a whole bunch of flags that configure sub-pixel and anti-aliasing as well as natural widths etc. So it might not look the same. To m
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by damieng 6y ago
SpaceX do internal stock buy-backs based on continual fair market valuations.
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by damieng 6y ago
I was working at Xbox when we made the same change there. Web analytics were showing a massive drop-off in signup as users struggled to think of a good gamertag that wasn't already taken. At the time you had to pay to change your gamer
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by damieng 8y ago
GitHub is not profitable. .net core is not vaporware. It's out and just shipped 2.1. The non-core one is not open source as it is very tied to Windows and they want the future effort to be the cross platform .net core.
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by damieng 8y ago
The amount Microsoft would have to lose - in courts and public trust - if they were to abuse the private sensitive data held in their systems - would massively outweigh any benefit they could hope to achieve from that information.
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by damieng 8y ago
Not sure where you get the monthly internet pricing from but my 250MB Comcast is $59.99 a month and 150MB Frontier is $40 a month.
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by damieng 8y ago
Do not rely on other people to resolve time-sensitive issues when you can easily avoid it. In this particular case as soon as it's clear the domain hasn't renewed despite being billed then manually renew it using the usual user in

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