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Multiple Emacs modes recognize URIs so that you can follow them in a web browser, usually with a mouse left click. In modes that do not support it, one can still call browse-url-at-point interactively with the cursor positioned on a URI. I wanted to make link handling more convenient for some time; this is what I...
Transformers 00s Store Exclusives This page was created as an entry into the 32-Bit Cafe’s Codejam #5. While not necessarily a “complicated topic”, it is a topic I can ramble on about for hours. The early- to mid-2000s period of the Transformers franchise had an interesting product strategy, one that Hasbro seemed...
Instead of an omnibus mega-post, this investigation into JavaScript-first frontend culture and how it broke US public services has been released in four parts. Other posts in the series: Reckoning: Part 2 — Object Lesson Reckoning: Part 3 — Caprock Reckoning: Part 4 — The Way Out When you live in the shadow of a...
It is no secret that I detest the smartphone culture in which we live, and I look forward to the day that I can ditch mine in the river. However, that might be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I think that if we keep ourselves disciplined, we can use the glass slab for good, but it means being militant...
Here’s a fantastic post by Chevy Ray about how they made a dozens of pixel fonts using Rust: Kerning was a big time hog when making my previous font packs. Because the tools I was using required every kerning pair to be manually entered, it was incredibly time consuming and also extremely error prone. Look at it...