Rutherford

It’s a bug but like… hell yeah

BRAND NEW POTATO RICER vs POTATO Round 1 winner: POTATO (glad I kept the receipt)

I Was On the Front Page of Hacker News and All I Got was This $4 Hosting Overage and a Single Instagram Follower

"everyone in the middle ages believed in astrology and the stars having a direct impact on outcomes on earth" sounds like wacky superstitition to us today but i think would seem much more intuitive as a belief if you could see the sky like they got to see it.

Wrote some stuff. Read to the end for my first f-bomb on the company account in 6½ years

this is what it feels like to make a font

uk politics rn:

hey siri please text my loved ones for me, god I hate spending time interacting with the people I care about

watching WWDC against my better judgement and it's amazing that even Apple's AI bullshit boils down to "hey siri do my parenting for me" or "hey siri, i don't want to look at the texts i had with my wife and remember all the fun little interactions we have just pull this one thing out of it for me"

People love historical what if scenarios. What if JFK was never assassinated? What if the Nazis won in WW2? A scenario I never see discussed is what if the aids crisis didnt decimate the gay men of America in the 80s-90s? Its easy to forget 1 in 15 gay boomer men died. An estimated 300,000 deaths-

Daybreak (Part III) — Cartridge design & custom lettering for the 2026 My #Famicase Exhibition at METEOR, Tokyo (@super-meteor.bsky.social)

they call it a font of evil because fonts are evil

Most text rendering middleware for games only supports `kern` table kerning, but most fonts only ship with GPOS kerning data, so text can be badly spaced even if the same font looks fine outside the game (This might be my single biggest criticism of Marathon, the screen says ‘EXFIL TRA TED’)

dyslexia-friendly/‘hyperlegible’ fonts are a marketing gimmick, not a meaningful solution for accessibility

happy 2nd birthday to the bug report I filed about @penpot.app’s broken font implementation

New release: MD UI. The International Typographic Style projected one step into the future. UI is a neo-grotesque tuned for maximum performance across all scales; a typeface that augments the function of a timeless form. Available today in 48 styles. mass-driver.com/typefaces/md...

my brain: we need to focus. Lock in. Deadline tomorrow, lots of work still needs to be done. It’s very important we focus, otherwise we won’t finish everything in time. also my brain: low poly rat challenge. Make a low poly rat right now

who up w’rkn they cacnter rn

Manifesting a singleplayer game with this art direction Simply gorgeous

update: the peach chipotle salsa (as it ended up being) has mellowed very well. I made myself a sandwich with most of what was left over & a very blue Montgomery cheddar. 11/10

threw together what i thought would be a low-effort imitation of a peach habanero salsa I vaguely remember having about a month ago, half the ingredients substituted (including the habaneros) Reader, it is one of the best things i have ever made

begging the people who make toasters and the people who make washing machines to talk to each other about how long a minute is

achievement unlocked: capable of listening to a podcast while kerning (only took 14 years of practice)

it’s 2026 and people are still making websites with that stupid laggy smooth-scrolling that feels like trying to run underwater

This is entirely true (also my strategy for pricing WIP fonts). 16 bucks is 10 bucks and that’s how I could afford rent in 2020

new year new m̸e̸ linux distro

I made mulled wine sorbet & there’s nothing on the calendar for the next week. Merry christmas

starting to feel much more comfortable programming complex systems. Had an idea yesterday for a kind of Dishonored-style character controller based on parallel state machines #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

I spent over a year designing this font license (& almost 5 years refining it), with gamedev as a primary use case. Just about every indie foundry I know is actively trying to improve this stuff, despite Monotype repeatedly setting the font industry’s collective goodwill on fire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

things I have caught myself saying in the last ~24 hours: “I’m gonna play about an hour of dwarf fortress and then I’ll go to the club” “please can you remove the zombie blood from the coat rack” “we’re out of mandarin campari sorbet. It’s the end of an era”

you can just claim any font is better for dyslexia. no one checks. I think we should all agree the best one is Zapfino and be done with it

drowning in paperwork this week but I made a muscovado & dalgona ice cream, which has been a huge morale boost

Monotype once again giving our whole industry a bad name

In high school I wanted to know how fonts get made and no one knew. At university I wanted to know how fonts get made and they told me to go to The Hague and speak to a man named Erik. In The Hague they told me the basics, and I realised ‘how fonts get made’ is gonna take a lifetime to figure out

Everything is wrong. This is not straight. This is too high. This is in my way. We must put them right.

Available now: MD Thermochrome v0.4 adds over 100 new icons to the typeface, all of which respond to weight and italic angle just like every other glyph. Legibility not guaranteed www.futurefonts.com/mass-driver/...

The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on — the AI only helps a bit. Just let me know if you have any Q’s, Or if I can adjust the vibe of it.

found some astonishingly cheap pineapple quinces this morning, so today I have been making quince cheese. Remarkable how much this has lifted my mood

mushroom sprites #pixelart

I know it’s been 14 years but I still can’t believe they set the Skyrim user interface in Futura Condensed

this game won a Hugo Award and frankly it deserves another

local craft supply store’s incredible new loyalty scheme: every €5 you spend earns you a sticker, and when you collect 64 (!) stickers, you give them your full name, address, email and phone number, and they give you a one-time €10 discount

smashed up a cabbage. played with knives. new combat sounds. (I don’t know what I’m doing) #gamedev #sounddesign

Made some sound effects for footsteps & potions. my first serious attempt at sound design, feedback is very welcome (Combat sounds are not mine, included so bsky compression doesn’t crush the volume) #gamedev #godot #screenshotsaturday

it’s pretty subtle, but I tried recording some of my own sound effects for the UI. (combat audio is placeholder/not mine) #gamedev #godot

Added some (extremely placeholder) sound effects to the melee combat and it’s starting to feel very satisfying. Might go ahead and add sounds to everything #gamedev