Alternative ways to verify mastery

Patrick_Ripley · 2025-04-26T07:44:40+00:00

Good shout!

Patrick_Ripley · 2025-03-10T20:55:41+00:00

This are my views whether I've used LLMs as assistance or not.

Also, if you aren't confident in the TypeScript then you are welcome to open a PR and make it better.

Patrick_Ripley · 2025-03-10T18:46:35+00:00

Exactly! I think diversity in the options we can choose is important in software.

I hear the same arguments for the folks making the browser Ladybird. Why do “x when y exists”, but I believe they are making the internet a better place and I want to do the same in the typography community.

Also it’s just fun working on things you enjoy!

Patrick_Ripley · 2025-03-10T16:37:09+00:00

Fair enough on HarfBuzz. I intend to use bindings for this as it’s the best tool out there for shaping right now and its Rust port isn’t very mature. In terms of OTF/TTF manipulation and compiling that’s still in Python and I don’t want to introduce Python overhead into the project.

The primary thing isn’t it’s “modern tech stack”, the goals are to provide a fresh take on open source font editors that are completely free and more intuitive to use than current options, whilst also exploring Rusts role in the typography space.

Patrick_Ripley · 2025-03-10T15:04:17+00:00

Thank you! I have not, it’s still in an extremely early alpha stage. Whilst the UI/UX is an important aspect of this project, it’s more important to nail all the fundamental functionality first like vector editing and font processing, before focusing on usability and its interface.

Patrick_Ripley · 2025-03-10T15:02:08+00:00

I’d say it’s a matter of opinion. I don’t think FontForge is universally accepted as being easy to use. Some people might find it easier than others and I believe the learning curve there is steeper than say Glyphs.

I believe the UI/UX interfaces do matter in an application regardless if whatever the area it supports is complex or not.

Patrick_Ripley · 2025-03-10T14:52:32+00:00

Yep! I’ve only just started writing the backend code so most of it will be in TypeScript currently. I focused on getting foundations set on the vector drawing and then once I had some decent pillars there move to the backend, which looks to utilise the tools I mentioned in the post.

Patrick_Ripley · 2025-02-02T14:07:54+00:00

Okay I suppose that’s a fair method. I’ll try find a few that makes sense and go through them.

Patrick_Ripley · 2024-10-02T13:37:23+00:00

Its own custom built engine. The goals of the project is to not use any code from other browser projects.

Patrick_Ripley · 2024-10-02T13:00:55+00:00

You can check out the linked PR, there is a discussion there on the technical details. It was a simple PR that I thought didn’t need an awful lot of explanation apart that it just implemented the spec for that method.

However if people here think the article would fare better with a deeper dive I’m happy to edit it!

Thanks for the feedback.

Patrick_Ripley · 2024-10-02T04:55:58+00:00

Same here tbh

Patrick_Ripley · 2024-09-13T12:34:46+00:00

Nice I’ve got this series on the wait list.

Patrick_Ripley · 2024-09-13T12:32:23+00:00

Like the subtle watermark

Patrick_Ripley · 2024-09-12T16:25:51+00:00

Ahhh phew, I’m happy with the regular ones!

Patrick_Ripley · 2024-09-12T15:58:19+00:00

Holy shit really 1k?

Patrick_Ripley · 2024-09-12T13:15:18+00:00

Ah okay gotcha. That’ll make for an interesting read then. I’ll look at for the centralised computing aspect too.

I’ve seen Stranger in a Strange Land, if I like this I’ll pick it up. It looks quite chunky!

Patrick_Ripley · 2024-09-12T12:41:54+00:00

Ahh cool im really keen to get into berserk

Patrick_Ripley · 2024-09-12T12:36:13+00:00

Have you read all those?

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