Sunday, 10. January 12021
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Not for the font of heart.

GlyphCollector is a desktop application for typeface revival projects both as a production and research tool.

Tuesday, 5. January 12021
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…but who is Lena?

Ditherpunk — “The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering.”

I always loved the visual aesthetic of dithering but never knew how it’s done. So I did some research. This article may contain traces of nostalgia and none of Lena.

Relevant: The game ”Return of the Obra Dinn” and a forum post of its creator explaining his approach to the dithering process.

General Guide For Exploring Large Open Source Codebases.

Yes!

Open Source Design.

We are a community of designers and developers pushing more open design processes and improving the user experience and interface design of open source software.

Monday, 4. January 12021
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On repl-driven programming.

In fact, there’s a style of programming, well known in Lisp and Smalltalk circles, in which you define a toplevel function with calls to other functions that don’t yet exist, and then define those functions as you go in the resulting breakloops. It’s a fast way to implement a procedure when you already know how it should work.

Verdachtsfälle Rassismus bei Polizei: Parolen, Runen, Chatgruppen.

Wo und wann sind Polizist:innen durch rechtsextremes Gedankengut, Rassismus oder Antisemitismus aufgefallen? Die Liste der Vorfälle im Jahr 2020.

“For fuck's sake, read ‘Mindstorms’”.

Learnable Programming – Designing a programming system for understanding programs.

JavaScript and Processing are poorly-designed languages that support weak ways of thinking, and ignore decades of learning about learning. And live coding, as a standalone feature, misses the point.

Source: worrydream.com

Review of Michael Hiltzik’s book “Dealers of Lightning”.

Xerox decided to not enter the personal computer market in 1977, 4 years before the introduction of the IBM PC, 6 years before the introduction of the Apple Lisa, 7 years before the Mac. Xerox decided its fate and changed the course of technology forever. In a way, Xerox was the first company to be disrupted by software, or from within.

What RSS reader/aggregator do you use?

I looked at most of them and almost all of them feature “unread” posts (except an overall outlier called fraidycat) which for me is a deal breaker. RSS is not email, I don’t need more inbox zero pressure.

EU-Entschlüsselungspläne offenbar »beschlossene Sache«.

Noch ohne offiziellen Auftrag des Rats für eine solche Regulation hat die Kommission bereits begonnen, ein Entschlüsselungsgebot in anderen Regulationsvorhaben zu verankern.