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  I know there's a bunch of #autism / #adhd / neurospicy people on here: anyone have any experience of Auditory Processing Disorder? It's becoming more obvious to me that I'm finding it hard to understand people, particularly in busy environments or when they speak quickly, but I'm aceing all the standard hearing tests so I'm starting to wonder if I have APD. I know there's overlap between neurodivergence and APD, and while I'm not diagnosed with anything it wouldn'...

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  RT-DETRv2 is a state of the art object detection algorithm.

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  I have a prediction for the next TypeDrawers post I'm going to write, and it'll go something like this: The perfect encapsulation of the tech dudebro mentality is a person who points at a model they got an LLM to code, based on research that other people carried out, trained on data they didn't create, written in a framework they got for free and in an open source programming language, running on someone else's computer, and says "Look at this, I made it all myself".

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  Today's favourite Unicode codepoint.

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  Weekly takeaway last night. In the queue behinds us me there was a man with his daughter, maybe 6 years old, deciding what to have. "Shall I have chicken kebab or doner, darling?" "What's doner, daddy?" At which point I leaned over to my son, said loudly "Isn't Doner the name of one of Santa's reindeer?", and left.

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  Spent far too long tracking down a VF instancing bug only to discover my test case said `wdth=700,wght=75`. Code did what I told it, not what I wanted.

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  What I love about limework is not just that it's satisfying but it's also so, so forgiving. Like, I am useless at almost every practical task but lime doesn't care. Screwed it up? No problem, lime dries slowly and cures over months. Come back tomorrow and fix it. Really screwed it up? Just rake it out with a chisel and try again. Put too much on and it looks messy? That's a "sacrificial layer" which will protect against weathering. Brush it off i...

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  Lots of talk about making Andy Burnham an MP so he can take over as Prime Minister misses the point that Labour would need to win a by-election in the current political climate. Lots of luck with that, folks.

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  If you'd like to study a postgraduate type design course *for free*, **with a grant**, you have ten days left to apply for ANRT: https://anrt-nancy.fr/en/apply And if you apply for the "Missing Scripts" research project, you will almost certainly get some work from me at the end of it...

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  I wrote an image vectorisation tool which tries to do point placement and node handles the way type designers would: smooth curves, horizontal and vertical alignment, balanced handles. It's called glyphtracy https://github.com/simoncozens/glyphtracy

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  It is the 26th of April, 2026. Forty years ago, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded. Fittingly, I've just finished reading Serhii Plokhy's "Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy", which traces not only the explosion and its immediate aftermath but shows how political and ecological activism against the government disinformation campaign surrounding Chernobyl led directly to the movement for an independent Ukrainian state.

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  People are still underestimating how bad it's gonna get.

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  @davidallengreen Better than that - they have now gone from negotiating an end to the blockade of the Straits of Hormuz to... um, blockading the Straits of Hormuz. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/12/middle-east-crisis-live-us-iran-pakistan-peace-talks-jd-vance-delegation-leaves-without-a-deal?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-69db9a008f08dd4830774b67#block-69db9a008f08dd4830774b67

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  Today is Friday, the 2239th of March, 2020.

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  @davidallengreen Nice to see you here again.

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  I've been wanting someone to make a nice JavaScript version of Inglenook Sidings, and here one is: https://beaver.games/shunting/ This is a lovely little logic puzzle with thousands of possible variations.

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  A fun puzzle for type designers. My brain filled in 1 and 3 automatically. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/30/can-you-solve-it-r-y-clvr-ngh-t-rd-ths-sntnc

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  @tuqtuli

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  I really wish I could compose branches in git. Like, give me a branch which is *dynamically* the effect of feature-brach-a plus feature-branch-b.

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  Order free sofa cover swatches for coasters.

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  I keep thinking about camcorders. Imagine being a videographer for the first 10 or 20 years after camcorders went on sale. You'd go through the following thoughts: "Everyone can make movies? This is going to kill my job." "Haha, this is trash. My job is safe." "Quality is getting better but it's still trash." "It's trash but people are kind of happy with it? For recording memories and having fun it does what...

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  We really need a plan to decarbonise the world's energy infrastructure. Ideally by Tuesday.