Font designer Søren Fuglede Jørgensen discusses his LLM font, Hugo Landau talks about the evolution of website development, Mathew Duggan reviews GitHub Copilot Workspace, and Stephan Schmidt debates against mocking in testing, advocating for alternative strategies.
Søren Fuglede Jørgensen develops LLM font file with a font shaping engine for text manipulation in local applications without vendor updates.
Evolution of website development from manual editing to static site generators emphasizes simplification and cyclical trends in web creation.
Deep dives
Innovation in Font Files: Llama .ttf as a Font with LLM Engine
Llama .ttf font file, developed by Sorin Fuglide Jorgensen, incorporates a large language model (LLM) and an inference engine within a font file, powered by the font shaping engine, HarfBuzz. This unique integration allows text shaping through arbitrary code in applications like Firefox and Chrome, enabling text generation and manipulation locally without the need for vendor updates. The font's capabilities to run LLM directly within text applications present a novel approach to text processing and open possibilities for enhanced text manipulation.
Evolution of Website Development: From Hand-Crafted HTML to Static Site Generators
The evolution of website development is traced from manual HTML editing to the era of PHP enabling dynamic web apps, leading to the rise of 'mildly dynamic websites.' The transition to static site generators marked a resurgence of static websites, bridging the gap between static and dynamic site creation. The shift highlights the cyclical nature of web development trends and the ongoing evolution in simplifying website creation and maintenance.
Søren Fuglede Jørgensen builds a font thats also an LLM, Hugo Landau writes about the demise of the mildly dynamic website, SQL Studio is the simplest little database explorer ever, Mathew Duggan reviews GitHub Copilot Workspace & Stephan Schmidt lays out the case against mocking + what to do instead.
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