the darnedest thing is written and designed by Steven Hum with the
following..
production environment
the darnedest thing
- Ruby Mail library
- Gmail spam filtering
web server
hosting services
Other tools used to construct this site can be found
here.
keyboard layouts
are a primary subject of interest on this site. Writing and caring about
the tools to do so seem to go hand in hand.
The current daily driver being used to compose these blog entries can be
found in daily beakl.
fonts
somehow became a thing on this site.
Source code typefaces have
always been of paramount importance, being pervasive in my daily use for
coding, email and desktop. PragmataPro and Iosevka were the de facto coding fonts until
discovering the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font. Failing to find
a monospaced version of that font, i created my own Iosevka variant.
Its use eventually led to a font exploration for ereaders
with a dyslexic focus in mind—removing all mirrored glyphs along
with other typeface adjustments.
Many many font iterations
improved the
dyslexic readability and distinctiveness of the typefaces created, culminating
in the current suite of font variants..
font |
hierarchy |
articulate |
Atkinson Hyperlegible base font |
typograffic |
Universal Grotesk variant |
mu |
descending cap I with toothless-corner double-storey a |
upsilon |
descending caps I T Y with single-storey a |
Each of the above fonts build upon the preceding font. All
inherit the base dyslexic glyph set for lower case b d p q and n
m u, adding their own distinctive upper and lower case glyph shapes.
After eliminating all mirrored glyph shapes and experimenting with upper case glyphs with extended descenders, i may finally have settled on a duet of ereading fonts: the stria and grote fonts, a pair of complementary “flat” typefaces (whose influence have also made their way onto this site’s webfonts).
Fonts may be found in the font repos.
dotfiles
the current dotfiles containing the sources,
configuration files and scripts described in the various articles can be
found here.
To avoid an unnecessarily large download including all historical commits, pull
only the latest repository files with..
git clone --depth 1 git@github.com:sdothum/dotfiles.git
sunday, 30 july 2023
this page was created to centralize OneDrive shared links
(which i seem to be able to break periodically)..
OneDrive Fonts
Earlier font typefaces and variants can be found in the archive
folder.. though i admit their organization may not relate in an obvious
manner to their originating site references (never imagined this font
journey would be so extensive!)..