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If you haven't heard of him, the joke's on you. Maybe. In any case, his work is worth looking into. He has done interesting work in font creation, font build
by peterfirefly 4y ago
If you haven't heard of him, the joke's on you. Maybe. In any case, his work is worth looking into.
He has done interesting work in font creation, font building primitives, rasterization, 2D drawing, and resistant social network graphs (which turns out to be more or less equivalent to the Old Sk00l Google Juice system).
He was recently instrumental in performing a wonderful experiment in editor building -- wonderful because of the way it failed. It was something that one would think would work, but somehow it didn't. It's always interesting when intelligent and well-informed people are wrong about something. Perhaps there was too much Design and too little boring boiler plate.
https://levien.com/ https://levien.com/
https://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html https://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
https://levien.com/phd/phd.html https://levien.com/phd/phd.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodipodi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodipodi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato
https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.html https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.h...
- amelius 4y ago> He was recently instrumental in performing a wonderful experiment in editor building -- wonderful because of the way it failed. They clearly should have migrated to C++ sooner :)
- peterfirefly 4y agoYes, C++ does have fast JSON parsers.
- hu3 4y agoSorry but I didn't know the author either. And with due respect, none of his work is directly aplicable in the majority of software development roles I have been involved with, directly and indirectly. And that's fine. There's nothing to be ashamed of nor it is something to shame someone for. The world is large and specialized. If we were speaking about Linus or Bill Gates then perhaps it would be a surprise for some tech savy person to not know them.