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Written by Simon Cozens on 2025-01-21 at 07:02

Team "turning away from the news is an act of privilege" versus team "resisting the onslaught on your attention is an act of rebellion".

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2025-01-17 at 12:07

This is almost certainly buggy as hell. I whipped it up in a couple of hours. It doesn't support avar mappings. It doesn't support alternate or intermediate layers, although that's not hard to add. But for 80% of what you want to do it seems to work fine.

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2025-01-17 at 12:03

Why is there no VF interpolation previewer for Glyphs?

I guess there is now. Needs vanilla+fonttools.

https://github.com/simoncozens/Interpolate

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2025-01-14 at 07:36

(Lollie lost her friend recently, but we are working on adopting another bun if the bonding works out.)

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2025-01-14 at 07:35

[#]rabbitsofmastodon tip: Don't buy pet shop hay! Lollie was never a great hay eater so much of her hay got thrown away. At £5 a bag this meant that we didn't change her hay as often as we should, since it felt so wasteful. So staler hay, so more waste.

I went to a local farm and got hay at £5 a bale. Now I'm not bothered about waste and so change it more frequently, and as a bonus she seems to prefer the taste.

The story of how I got three hay bales into a small car is one for another time.

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2025-01-08 at 11:19

Mystery solved. The cats are exonerated.

THE RABBIT TOOK IT.

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2025-01-07 at 21:59

Absolute belter of a chapter from Dimitri Zinoviev's "Seven Obscure Programming Languages In Seven Weeks".

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2025-01-07 at 20:26

I've looked everywhere and I can't find it. But it's still reporting! I can see I'm going to have to Mark Watney this.

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2025-01-07 at 20:15

A while ago I got really into Home Assistant. I've since replaced all the legacy TRVs with temperature sensors plus smart TRVs. The house is much warmer and more regulated now.

Except today: the living room radiator suddenly started blasting out heat - because the battery operated sensor stuck on the wall is reporting the room to be 13C.

Except the sensor is no longer stuck to the wall. I think the cats have grabbed it and taken it somewhere. I have no idea where, but clearly somewhere cold.

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2025-01-04 at 21:34

I liked Four Tet's music, but this is awesome for other reasons.

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2024-12-23 at 20:31

Kim 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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Written by Simon Cozens on 2024-12-22 at 20:38

Whenever a family member asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I didn't know I just said "chutney", and so now they've all got me chutney and I couldn't be happier.

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2024-12-22 at 15:22

Just found this in my desk drawer: a Seiko "word tank". This is how we used to learn Japanese.

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2024-12-19 at 22:08

Is it me, or has the Rust borrow checker got considerably more lenient over the past couple of years?

(Or did I just learn to write things in ways that make it happier?)

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2024-12-17 at 08:21

Larry Wall's virtues of programming (laziness, impatience, hubris) continue to resonate. The difference between codebases of programmers who follow the values and those who don't is huge.

Laziness: I can't be bothered to implement this component.

Impatience: I'll just use someone else's module.

Hubris: But I can write a better one if it turns out I need to.

Too many either skip the laziness (insufficient code reuse) or skip the hubris (inappropriate code reuse).

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2024-12-06 at 08:45

Quote from @Igor_Petrovic: AI is the culmination of the capitalist fantasy that work can be done without workers.

Wow.

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2024-12-05 at 11:35

Just typed "interfae" and it's my favourite typo right now: an interfae is a protocol that two daemons use to talk to each other.

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2024-11-27 at 10:32

I've always complained that checking a font's "language support" just by counting Unicode codepoints is unreliable and incomplete; the font has to behave correctly to support a language.

Shaperglot is my (and @googlefonts's) response to this problem. And now it has a web interface so you can drop your fonts on and get a report on what works, what doesn't and what can be improved.

Try it out at https://googlefonts.github.io/shaperglot/ (all processing is done on your local computer; nothing is uploaded.)

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2024-11-13 at 08:42

"Style name". "Preferred subfamily name". "Typographic style name". "Font subfamily name". "Preferred style name". "Style map style name". "Typographic subfamily name".

I genuinely don't understand which of these are the same and which are different. Font name handling is a complete hellscape.

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Written by Simon Cozens on 2024-11-08 at 07:37

Love this idea of resistance pathways, from https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/

Tag yourself, I'm "Protect People".

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