Not for the font of heart.
GlyphCollector is a desktop application for typeface revival projects both as a production and research tool.
…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!
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.
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.
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.