mastodon 4.6.9AI/ML/Design Engineer
WIP
I made a DrawBot Node.
I am running autoreaseach loops all weekend to improve img2bez.
This is an unsolved problem in open-source vector graphics that can be numerically evaluated. There is low hanging fruit like this everywhere.
I think true modernists wanted free & open source AI automated design one hundred years ago.
Work in progress: a fork of Instrument Serif that turns it into a 400-900 weight variable font.
Open to critique and criticism, it's about 50/50 AI generated and hand drawn.
It's extremely buggy and broken right now, but I actually got QuiverAI somewhat working for tracing background images in Runebender Xilem.
If I can get this working, you just need a QuiverAI API key in ~/.config/runebender and hit Cmd+Shift+Y to trace a background image.
I'm working on a new feature for img2bez in Runebender Xilem that lets you use an existing outline and refit it onto a raster image.
To test this out, I'm using Claude Code and Nano Banana to make a variable font fork of Instrument Serif called Instruments Serif (weight range 400–900).
The compositor node I worked on for Fuser has typographic features like tracking, line height, variable font support, and kerning with Option + ← or → keys.
The goal was to achieve the same typographic detail as in Figma, InDesign, DrawBot, etc.
To appeal to a European audience, my v0.1.0 FOSS font editor project now has a happy hardcore theme song.
We don't talk enough about how much better UFO is than Glyphs for working with Claude Code.
The Font Engineering Licensing Board needs to revoke the credentials of everyone involved with pushing the Glyphs format.
Ethereum is to the Free Software movement and the hacker ethic and the Baháʼí Faith is to Islam.
Taqlid (تقليد) is spiritual blindness.
This call for applications gives $100k of equity-free funding for blockchain solutions:
- improving transparency & accountability of public goods funding
- new financing models for digital public goods
Deadline is march 10th.
https://www.unicef.org/innovation/equity-free-funding-blockchain-solutions
I can finally talk about and show what I've been working on recently. I designed and built most of this compositor in Rust/WASM. I'm really proud of how it turned out!