Posts by mwichary@mastodon.online
(DIR) Post #B6trD93Z9RmzgbJutM by mwichary@mastodon.online
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Answer thanks to @vathpela: Holophane Spider Web Lenses!https://www.kbrhorse.net/signals/lenses01.htmlApparently it’s to reduce the likelihood of external light reflecting off of signal and making it appear lit when it’s not.
(DIR) Post #B7LZi8elMaC0tn20n2 by mwichary@mastodon.online
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Who needs a keyboard
(DIR) Post #B7ZMrzFHEWTcKFnK3E by mwichary@mastodon.online
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For those who know German typography, any advice on how to sink my teeth into understanding the influence of DIN 1451 (and its predecessors/siblings/variants) on everyday typography? Can be in German! Thank you.
(DIR) Post #B7ZMs0PEuy2XvRSnDc by mwichary@mastodon.online
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I bet @kupfers knows. 😀
(DIR) Post #B7ZO57HokSD8z0o7hg by mwichary@mastodon.online
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@domi Oh did I. 😀
(DIR) Post #B8XMhONgDlhPf0cryq by mwichary@mastodon.online
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What the actual hell. Chrome installed a *global* Ctrl+G keyboard shortcut to launch Gemini even if I’m using a different app, and didn’t ask me about it.
(DIR) Post #B8XMhOfP9rsSXyv1bk by mwichary@mastodon.online
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/116952836351215165What a fall from grace. I remember Chrome being the browser that tried to protect the users from websites’s bad behaviour. Now the operating system needs protection from Chrome’s.RT: https://mastodon.online/users/mwichary/statuses/116952836351215165
(DIR) Post #B8XMhPQuJFsIvJ8xeK by mwichary@mastodon.online
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The tab with the setting is called “AI innovations.” Eat my whole ass!
(DIR) Post #B8XMhPhDKcv1jslz4C by mwichary@mastodon.online
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I mean, isn’t this *literally* malware behaviour?
(DIR) Post #B8XMhQO6l9EJsuqEvQ by mwichary@mastodon.online
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If anyone is curious, I discovered it by pressing Ctrl+G in Nova to go to a specific line in code.
(DIR) Post #B8XMhRGhUAtmcENq1A by mwichary@mastodon.online
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It literally conflicted with their own shortcut in web dev! https://issues.chromium.org/issues/480172712
(DIR) Post #B8XMhS5ORhRr9S6K24 by mwichary@mastodon.online
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Not that I expect much, but I filed it here: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/536579239
(DIR) Post #B8XMhSzl48XDyGTKt6 by mwichary@mastodon.online
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Since people are already asking:The nature of my work means I try to stay as close to a typical user’s experience, which means using Chrome without an ad blocker, because I believe this is still the most common desktop setup.I might reconsider that for my own sanity, though.
(DIR) Post #B8XMhTiQO4GQCnN0Vc by mwichary@mastodon.online
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A small sidebar: I consider it in small part macOS’s fault in not reigning that in. Apps can easily add global shortcuts and it’s really hard to debug which app reacts to one, especially if the reaction is not obvious. At Figma, I created an entire internal doc (“Shortcuts not working”) to track common offenders (e.g. 1Password, I don’t remember others).
(DIR) Post #B8oHdb3FwATBWRgAc4 by mwichary@mastodon.online
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I find these really interesting – this strange hybrid of very old-school displays that only showed a few options, married with vector fonts, but shown as dots, all using pretty modern LED tech.
(DIR) Post #B8oHdbHR5RoQEQJUiO by mwichary@mastodon.online
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By old-school, I mean stuff like this:
(DIR) Post #B9GRlOoklAqLIPl4ee by mwichary@mastodon.online
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Wait, exactly how many anti-AI fonts are already out there?1/ https://shieldfont.org/2/ https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font
(DIR) Post #B9GRlPCrJY7qVB2KEC by mwichary@mastodon.online
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One more (headache-inducing) concept…3/ https://www.mixfont.com/ghost-font…although the last two appear to be AI-generated themselves.
(DIR) Post #B9aCcNGZSoPzUGF6ky by mwichary@mastodon.online
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I wrote a bit about Zalgo, the glitchy text you sometimes see. I wanted to explain not what it is in the meme/lore sense, but how it is constructed, and why is it even possible to construct it.https://unsung.aresluna.org/zalgo-the-good-the-bad-and-the-very-very-ugly/
(DIR) Post #BAf9Whz3cJjnoWKZAe by mwichary@mastodon.online
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I know @nleanba and @louie both make modern 88x31 web badges:https://nleanba.ch/88x31/https://lmnt.me/badges/Those are fun to see. Anyone else…?