If you use harfbuzzjs (or if you didn’t know you could use HB in JS), have a look at this PR github.com/harfbuzz/har... where Khaled is rapidly converting the project to TS and ESM based on suggestions from a long standing issue (github.com/harfbuzz/har...).

Apparently I’ve been incorrectly claiming on my website that I’m a vice-chair of the Script WG, due to an editing error: lianghai.dev 🫠

The node-based, procedural design tool Graphite’s talk at FOSDEM has its recording online now: fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

It’s so satisfying to vote against Andrew Cuomo again.

@atila.io, after our brief chat, I realized that it’s quite unusual for you guys to have to deal with bidi issues from the level of Solid or SolidStart. Can you have a look at this article from W3C and elaborate a bit about what exact problems you guys are facing? www.w3.org/Internationa...

@danielroe.dev, it was great to meet you and climb together! – So about the font subsetting situation: - The current best practice is likely HarfBuzz (HB)’s subsetting API (harfbuzz.github.io/harfbuzz-hb-...), which is written in C++ and has a CLI, hb-subset (harfbuzz.github.io/utilities.ht...).

you can sponsor @e18e.dev through GitHub Sponsors or OpenCollective these funds will primarily be used for two things: - distributed to projects/individuals in the wider JS community - development of community projects/tools thanks so much to those of you who already sponsor us 💙

Yesterday was CourtBouillon 5-year anniversary 🎂 As each year, we take some time to see what happened during the year on the projects (features, money…), and to draw the path for the next one. Here’s the rewind of this year! ↘️ www.courtbouillon.org/blog/00059-f...

@danielroe.dev: Signing up for the bouldering session on Saturday!

Got this cutie from @todde.tv’s Vite quiz at #ViteConf!

Solid advice from @atila.io at #ViteConf.

Want to meet the Astro core team? Come join us for some drinks and a chat in Amsterdam on Saturday — sponsored by @netlify.com! Register here: luma.com/fbmyfx30

A panel chat after the Vite documentary’s premiere today at #ViteConf, featuring @antfu.me or “The Fu”, among others.

"Let's hear it for the UN of Javascript! Vite: The Documentary is finally here. If you missed the premiere, it's OK!!! Here's the link so you can watch it again, and again and again. youtu.be/bmWQqAKLgT4 "

Really impressive how bad this is. Reeks of US corporate superficiality. Even worse than Unicode Consortium’s rebranding some year ago. www.w3.org/press-releas...

Fucking hell. Turned out I’m not insane – indeed Safari and Chrome do blend mode calculation in the display’s color profile, not sRGB: danielcwilson.com/blog/2020/03...

In one month, Node.js 18 reaches EOL. Vite and a lot of your dependencies will release majors requiring Node.js 20+. Please update as recommended now so you are prepared to jump into greener fields. Vite 4 will also stop receiving security patches after the next major, so please jump to latest too 🙏

Class 2 assignment of @robstenson's Coldtype course: "modify the drumkit.py file to look different". Finished before Sunday midnight – two days early! Sound and font (Obviously Variable) provided by the course.

i’ve seen shitposting you people wouldn’t believe

I’m so excited to share this project of mine! 🚲 ❤️ Super grateful to the generous support from @bikemn.bsky.social, @cyclehoop.bsky.social & the Lyndale Neighborhood Association to make this idea a reality. Minneapolis: Want to rent a cargo bike? Follow @mplscargobikelibrary.com !

Finally learning spline.design! 🎉

The writing this season is a little too on-the-nose

Someone at Microsoft thought it's such a brilliant idea to use a generic tile for everything and concatenate lists together so it looks really neat.

Figured out how to enforce this italic style of function parameters that I really like. Now I can use any theme! (Dracula Theme Official, which is in the screenshots, and SynthWave '84 are some choices that come with this style. But sometimes I need to use a light theme.)

The article I wrote at the end of last year was just republished on the official Astro blog! Big thanks again to @sarah11918.rainsberger.ca for reaching out 🙏

I _believe_ that www.viamichelin.com, a SvelteKit app, came first. Though since michelin.com uses Astro with Svelte, we can't be too mad. (I guess we're the first framework with two Michelin Stars?) Anyway, welcome to the club ⭐

Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark by claiming Node.js — now it wants that ignored #FreeJavaScript deno.com/blog/deno-v-...

New Article about the story and interconnectedness of the three Mediterranean cultures that led to the creation of La Grotesque. tptq-arabic.com/articles/the...

Hello! Our first post on here is an account on why we decided to stop publishing and promoting typefaces for a while. tptq-arabic.com/blog/after_t...

Some of my favorite sneks in the emoji kitchen.

Want to use Rust in JavaScript? Increase performance in the browser? Here's an intro to using Wasm with Deno. deno.com/blog/intro-t...

I like that analogy even more when I remember that today is apparently 'Large Boulder The Size Of A Small Boulder' day. knowyourmeme.com/memes/a-larg...

Our in-house cognitive scientist Héctor Mangas Afonso will be speaking tomorrow at the AIGA Los Angeles about the Type Design for Low Vision Readers. You can get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/type-desig...

I had an amazing time at Face/Interface 2025, put on by @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social this weekend. So many great talks! I was struck by something @tsmullaney.bsky.social said — “Privilege is the ability to move onto ‘cooler problems.’” Let’s talk about that! 1/10 #langsky #language #technology 🧵🪡

In December, we co-published a video together with Heiltsuk Revitalization to describe the work that we did together to add two new capital letters to the Unicode Standard for their language. To describe this effort in more detail, please read our blog post: www.typotheque.com/blog/new-uni...

🎉 OMG OMG OMG Chrome is shipping CSS attr() for every property!!! 🎉 I’ve been asking for this for over a decade!! w00t!!! 🤩 developer.chrome.com/blog/advance...

Wishful thinking by the Propaganda Department that the Study Xi app will be the next Xiaohongshu ("Little Red Book") hit among TikTok refugees: "We warmly invite all friends, foreign and Chinese, new and old, to download the "Big Red Book" app so we can study and make progress together!"😂

A lot of Cantonese-usage characters are coming to Unicode 17.0 later this year, but perhaps my favourite is ⿴囗芒 [UK-20506] pronounced mon1 which means a 'computer monitor'

Explore the GitHub Sponsors pages of the maintainers of your favorite OSS projects. Find an awesome folk who deserves more support, then press the sponsor button to show them we appreciate their work. Today is a good day to give back.

Finalizing #fontstandcon2025! Tobias Frere-Jones recounts the research and design process behind New York City Football Club’s new family of typefaces. The city’s history becomes the material for the identity of a modern sports team, and a bond with citizens and fans. fontstandcon2025.eventbrite.com

I realised this week (the one nice thing to have come out of doing my taxes) that I’ve sold a font on every continent except Antarctica. So uh, if anyone currently based in Antarctica is reading this, I’ll get you a 99% discount code if you can help me hit an unnecessary milestone

Cloudflare sharing how they used Starlight to up their open-source docs game 🌟 blog.cloudflare.com/open-source-...

#FreeJavaScript update: Oracle has informed us they won’t voluntarily withdraw their trademark on "JavaScript". Next: they’ll file their Answer and we’ll start discovery to show how "JavaScript" is widely recognized as a generic term and not controlled by Oracle.

There's also a little sneaky preview of an upcoming tool of mine here. 👀

I wrote up the 25th anniversary of the unveiling of the Mac OS X Dock at Macworld Expo, from the perspective of a scared twenty-something engineer. It's me. I'm the engineer. tla.systems/blog/2025/01...

Arco is 30% off on Steam AND Switch till 16th January! 🙈Help us getting to 1k reviews on Steam✨We are still Overwhelmingly Positive! 💖 #gamedev Link below👇

If you want to support your boy you can buy the pack. I'm slowly expanding it, it's up to 8 wallpapers now 🫡 franrekk.gumroad.com/l/etdko

Wonderful story...sometimes we forget how even something as sterile as a bunch of code on GitHub can make the difference in the life of someone. So happy that svelte was so influential on the life of the OP 🧡

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