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This is a horrible, horrible hack and it's terrifying and I am aghast at how amazing this is. Such a wonderful abuse of OpenType contextual alternatives. Well d

• nine_k 2y ago
  What makes it a horrible hack, as opposed to proper use of documented capabilities at a scale slightly larger than usual? Putting animated SVG in a font [1] is a horrible hack; this one is benign. A somehow larger stretch would be a font with a built-in spell checker, with a wavy underline under every letter that only disappears under correctly spelled words. [1]: https://codepen.io/glukcodepen/pen/xQORev https://codepen.io/glukcodepen/pen/xQORev
  • lukan 2y ago
    "Putting animated SVG in a font [1] is a horrible hack" Agreed, that is even more horrible. And probably just for performance reason alone should never ever get close to a real world product. Still, quite neat.
  • brute 2y ago
    Or from some months ago: Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40766791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40766791
• simultsop 2y ago
  Typical reaction for thinking out of the box xD but yes if embraced ide perf may sky rocket!
• TristanBall 2y ago
  Have you seen vim syntax rules?