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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...

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Terminad is a really interesting approach to rendering markdown in the CLI. It deliberately doesn't render links, so you can always see both the link text and the URL. In a browser you have hover to see URLs, but not necessarily in a terminal.
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Dec 3, 2019 at 06:45
Optical disks can suffer from a 'rot' where the material degrades over time, rendering the content unreadable:
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Nov 25, 2019 at 01:16
After experimenting with emoji on a range of platforms, I've realised it's really hard to develop a good visual across different platforms. Emoji rendering varies massively based on the system's default emoji set. I ended up using image rendering so all users get the same style.
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