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Aug 1, 2013 at 14:43

There's nothing worse than subtle bugs. Awkward bugs that are obvious are ultimately much easier to fix.

Mar 11, 2020 at 04:51

AMD's remarkable resurgence, the profitability of the server market today, and the prospect of significant CPU and GPU sales for them: https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/03/06/amd-is-determined-to-gets-its-rightful-datacenter-share/ Ultimately, competition is great for the consumer.

AMD Is Determined To Get Its Rightful Datacenter Share

AMD Is Determined To Get Its Rightful Datacenter Share

There is an equally virtuous and vicious cycle that propels all computing: Innovation requires competition to propel it, and competition requires

Feb 23, 2019 at 01:34

Plans for low-level font rendering API in Rust and ultimately Firefox: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aw41q_izail-p99mN8dHrJeh9tMQ-Pldi54W6m7MHU8/edit Rendering fonts is one of those hugely complex issues that computer solve and I'm very ignorant about. We are lucky to not start with blank machines.

Project roadmap: low level text layout

Project roadmap: low level text layout

Project roadmap: low level text layout Raph Levien 19 Feb 2019 I am starting a new project to create an open source Rust library for low level text layout. By “low-level” I mean that many of the higher level concerns, including line breaking, hyphenation, and representation of rich text, would b...