Fuck yea.

Actually. I disagree a little with this. The old web WAS Perfect.

I mean, except for Internet Explorer. That sucked.

@homerj the dialup sucked, porn was terrible and full of beastiality and children, email was unfiltered and absolutely full of spam, and women were consistently rejected and abused.

It’s easy to forget the shit that sucked. There were lots of great things, but there were lots of shitty things too.

I tied the <blink> tag to my belt, which was the style at the time …

@vosechu valid points though I'm not sure that has all changed as much as it should have.

Where's the mltshp link ring?

@MackReed *
@vosechu *

@homerj yeah, agreed. It’s hard to know whether things are actually better or worse in aggregate. As a crusty old fart I can compare a bit, but it’s hard for me still. For folks that barely even saw the 90s or 00s, I think they fantasize about the past based on half remembered fish stories.

I want a combo rss and email newsletter reader, plug-ins for additional services like mastodon, etc., and for internet accounts to have a public web directory again as part of the bundle, in case you want to make your own website.

"You wanna roast a baby? This baby'll roast a baby!"

Dymaxion air fryer

Reminds me of the 1940 gas proof baby buggy for kroonprinses Beatrix https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki...

Little Boy

Lindbergh baby.

@backseatpilot (angry upvote) well played.

@poorusher 🏆

@backseatpilot 🏅

Baby Gru

More like Oppenheimer's baby.

The UV ink is end-game level shit. Also, I want to see that pic!

What does blue mean? WHAT DOES BLUE MEAN?

Always the Tuojiangosaurus, never the bride

Much needed FFU these days

(applause)

Sometimes I wish there were a way to save these back down as gifs for sharing.

@BennyTheIcepick Change the /p/ to an /r/ in the URL. There's your gif.

Oh, give them some credit! They resurrected fascism, too!

That's the only way AI is going to make money.

Some of them invented "cabs, but on your smartphone" or "takeout, but on your smartphone".

@snarkout "Dystopian societal collapse, but on your smartphone"

@LocalStain Sweet, SoftBank is in for $50 billion.

Gotta set the tone!

they're 100 ply, bud

We called the National Guard

to put up sandbags because of your mom.

Fuck you, Shoresy.

We just recently rewatched this, and its hilarious how many times they trot out the "hot lady in glasses" trope.

I like how she gets ready to pounce once he says something bookish.

She's always been my favorite in that film, and it's a really good film.

One of my favorite scenes in that movie. It's been available on the airplane movie line up for a while, so I've watched it a few times, running back and forth between Denver and LA in the past year.

It's his high pants and short tie. Gets 'em every time

I have written so many run-on sentences today, they are calling me The Commadore

I just watched it last night. I enjoyed her scenes.

"It's a pornography store. I was buying pornoography."

(do we have a fonts shake?)

@homerj https://mltshp.com/typography

Fontagrapher? There's a name I haven't heard in a while... A buggy, inelegant weapon of a less-enlightened time. I'll look into this Fontra.

I played around with Fontographer quite a bit at the time, good to know there are still good tools around for this.

The idea of a font editor running in the browser gives me the horrors, but it's a Just van Rossum joint so it's highly unlikely to suck.

My fontmaking days are behind me, tho.

@ardgedee to clarify, the UI runs in the browser...but the 'server' is a local application on your machine. I guess the impetus for the project was that their type foundry needed to work on some gigantic character sets and enable the team to work asynchronously at the same time.

@ba huh weird. I can see that shake (it says I follow it) but can't actually add to it.

If you’re looking for a name, may I suggest smashburger?

My name suggestion is "Raccoon"

Botero Bold

I LOVE THIS. Especially how you're handling the counters.

I use an Illustrator add-on for my font work. (Fontself) But we should get a Fonts/Typography shake up and running.

@homerj I think Amber (typography’s owner) hasn’t been active for a while.

Its one of the tiny flaws in mltshp, someone creates a group then leaves, then there's no way for another user to take over admin of the group.

I think it's happened in the past where someone else has had to create a new group with the same concept.

@homerj Yeah, I get that. The networked user management part is absolutely brilliant. It's the "editing graphics with a browser UI" part that stops my heart.

@poorusher There’s a manual process where you can request (via the Slack) for the admin folks to reassign a shk, preferably with the former owner’s blessing, if they’re contactable.

@bezt ooooh nice.

Before I read the title I saw the picture and thought "Hey, that's a cool font! Where can I get it?"

Fontographer! I tweaked so many fonts. You'd want serif or descender a little longer for a logotype before Illustrator nicely converted text to editable outlines. What was that other program that would do it? ATM?

@dogwelder adding you to the beta tester list... :)

Call it burger, shake & fries. Or something like that. Good job!

Slab Pickle Grotesk

Bonus 6 Million Dollar Man! Dit-dit-dit-dit.

She looks like she wishes she could be anywhere else.

Hear, hear!

:-(

Every fucking day.

Are we?

"See you next Tuesday"!? Is this a film by Jorn Landis, the lesser Landis brother?

I appreciate the Onion, but nothing here goes quite as hard as Charlie Hebdo

Holy shit

maybe VP was allergic?

Don’t talk to me and my four or five long-haired cats ever again

Nice! What software do you use? I’m finally working on a new font myself after 20 some years. Been trying out Fontra and really like it.

@homerj FontForge's Python interface. Most people would hate it

Hardcore! :)

@scruss That's a phenomenal solution for the curve on letters like P or B!

@scruss @homerj ...could I please have more advice on how to start my road to making my own fonts?

@heyitsal Sure! I don't know what your background is, though. You familiar with vector illustration tools (Illustrator? Inkscape?) if so, it's really just a matter of using those skills with some new software. Glyphs appears to be the 'industry standard' these days but it's not cheap. Fontforge is the long standing open source option but it's a bit dated/clunky. I've been using Fontra which is relatively new, but also open source. And though a small dev team, they seem to be pumping out updates regularly. I'd be glad to lend a hand/walk you through it if interested.

I'm a daily user of Illustrator. I often import into Animate for programatic output. Can you import vectors/svg into Glyph/Fontra/etc or must you create it on the app.
I appreciate the offer of help! I'll try to barrel through Fontra first.

@heyitsal i started with cutting and pasting from Inkscape (my preferred tool). It mostly works tho I ran into a few issues building a multi-axis font with the two extremes being mismatched. So I began to do more of the actual drawing in Fontra and just got used to that. The real power in Fontra (for me) is components. You can do some really crazy/global stuff if you’re willing to break your glyphs down into separate elements which you can then use across multiple glyphs. I’m not fully leveraging that yet but a simple example is ‘ñ’. Instead of drawing that, I just link the ‘n’ and ‘~’ components. So if I decide to change the n later, the ñ also gets updated. There are some good Youtube tutorials for Fontra too.

@homerj I'm going to try outlining and existing font and C/P that just to learn how the interface works without getting neck deep futzing with design.
Components will be amazing. After I figure out the interface, I'm going to try my handwriting (which I assume is the proper rookie move). Gonna need components to help with alt characters for sure.

If a designer is interested, there are spreadsheet users out there who want a font that ALWAYS shows spaces with a visible character (just a little dot or something). Also needed are visible characters for some ASCII codes that get used in spreadsheets, like for line feeds and carriage returns.

@heyitsal I only run FontForge because it's the only font design package that runs on Linux. It has an incredibly opaque UX which unfortunately scares many users off its powerful features. You can add combining accents to all characters with one command.

Starting from scanned bitmaps can be frustrating as they typically end up with too many control points

@scruss FYI, Fontra will also run on linux: https://fontra.xyz/

I wouldn't say Fontra has a spit-polished UI either, but for what it is, it's pretty good. And they seem to be working to make quick improvements.

@homerj only seems to be supplied as x86_64 though, and it's huge. It also doesn't support SFDs, so I can't edit the source files of my fonts. I also don't like running things in a browser

@scruss yea, it uses UFO files instead. They are editable (Just XML text files) but definitely a different thing than Fontagraphers files.

@homerj SFDs are Fontforge things. TBH, I'm so used to FontForge's horrible UX that I don't want to learn anything new

@scruss ha! I can relate!

I'd be willing to bet most of these fuckers don't know what Nuremberg even means.

I mean if only.

@bencmeissner "those who do not study history..."

@urlnotfound 💯

to be fair, he was peddling Lard for a while.

They've come for your uncool niece.

The earworm of my whole existence the past few months, @snarkout.

“the agent will also document the code flawlessly!”