Dan Burzo

Designer, tool maker, web platform enthusiast, amateur archivist. Here to learn.

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2024-09-10 11:42:03

#AtlasOfType news of the week, featuring the newly-launched @npub12rq…9kj4 foundry:
https://type-atlas.xyz/news/2024-09-10/

2024-08-29 08:14:43

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@npub1urz…39sc 💛

2024-08-28 20:35:15

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@npub1urz…39sc these are the books that don’t fit at home so they have to move office with us, so they’re everyone’s problem now 🫠

2024-08-28 20:20:41

well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my actions
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/041/482/735/277/208/original/be6842db6fd7bf7b.jpeg

2024-08-25 07:10:52

Does anyone have any pointers for backing up, then deleting, emails older than a certain date on macOS, along with their attachments? One of my inboxes is ballooning beyond its allowance. (Gmail IMAP via macOS Mail.app)

2024-08-19 15:25:39

Can’t fit enough shelving at the new place to reunite my fragmentary library *cries in bibliomania*

2024-08-07 11:07:12

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@npub13q3…hr6l
they shouldn’t have shown me how to parse argv
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2024-08-05 15:14:28

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@npub1vw2…tunx Welp, that was fast (as expected). Congrats!

2024-07-14 10:11:17

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@npub1mwm…qehc highly sus
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/784/295/370/631/146/original/02b73f9faaf32a4b.jpeg

2024-07-06 13:11:46

What a wonderful resource from @npub1g83…dsge
Type Foundries Today (2013)
http://census.typographica.org/

2024-06-30 06:54:05

In the design notes for Isola (2022), Luzi Gantenbein mentions: „As the original [Venus-Grotesk], Isola has a Backslanted, Upright and Slanted version.”
When was the backslanted (Linkskursiv) style introduced? Fonts in Use notes that Berthold held a phototype version of this style.
https://www.luzi-type.ch/notes-isola
https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/16/venus

2024-06-30 06:54:05

2024-06-29 14:27:39

Never tire of making charred peppers!
#outdoor #cooking
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2024-06-28 14:10:53

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@npub1jzp…72dw Good luck!

2024-06-11 07:22:19

Upgraded four sites to @npub1z9m…rz2z 3.0 (canary) in the span of twenty minutes. 🫡

2024-05-19 10:39:08

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@npub1urz…39sc You can multiply the three matrices together and apply it as a single affine transformation

2024-05-17 07:02:41

No, developers, these are not my family. They are just contacts sharing the most common surname in the country of Romania. #TheAssInAssuming
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2024-04-25 17:58:32

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@npub1tcy…vmaf Apple has really dropped the ball on interaction design, this is one of the loose ends. Apple Support can hopefully sort it out for you.

2024-04-24 06:40:10

Toying with the idea of building a type atlas (à la Type Navigator) w/ indie foundries & individual releases. It’s one thing to compile the information (main hurdle is figuring out the indie status :-) ), but then the up-keep is a whole different beast…
I’m curious, do you tip Typecache / Identifont about new releases, or are they just extremely good at following hundreds of foundries on socials? Or is the newsletter the more likely M.O.?

2024-04-21 11:08:00

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@npub16u7…uend Pretty happy with it! Wish it had a nicer reporter built in (eg. I had to comment out Skipped tests because they were getting on my nerves), but solid foundation.

2024-04-01 07:32:29

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@npub1xqv…230r Windows fixing its RO keyboard layout to include the correct diacritical marks went a loooong way towards fixing the problem at the source.

2024-04-01 07:28:20

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@npub1xqv…230r Yes, please! It’s preferable to see, and fix, any stray cedillas than unwittingly perpetuating them. It’s nice, of course, to have the feature available in case you need the band-aid, but IMO not on by default.

2024-03-27 12:57:15

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@npub1urz…39sc (Small correction: the menu command _is_ File > Open without ellipsis, so the Apple documentation is not misleading after all. Must have accidentally opened the menu for another application)

2024-02-10 14:50:09

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@npub16u7…uend it can be a way to isolate the SVG so that it doesn’t pollute the global scope with the IDs it uses for gradients etc.

2024-01-08 14:25:13

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@npub1tcy…vmaf At this point I am convinced WP is too in the weeds to be salvaged incrementally. I am surprised there hasn’t been a push for a do-over.

2023-12-26 16:05:20

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@npub1urz…39sc I remember reading a while back that style changes mid-ligature would break them in safari so maybe even kerning suffers in these cases? https://faultlore.com/blah/text-hates-you/

2023-10-08 13:06:30

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@npub1urz…39sc subscribed! (via RSS)

2023-10-01 08:54:49

In September this year the Cluj County Library had an incredible push to Europeana (via the new-to-me culturalia.ro platform), so I am thrilled to introduce the first (and so far only) publicly-available PDF of a Romanian type specimen:
Specimen de caractere tipografice (1894)
https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/954/Culturalia_7f103336_006c_44a0_b017_03e07842729a

2023-09-22 20:40:52

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@npub1typ…c8hh @npub1l6y…2e4y I have a set of (non-custom) musician earplugs on me at all times, part of my been-there everyday carry.

2023-08-30 07:22:17

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@npub1urz…39sc Vintage FileMaker looks excellent, I would love a contemporary equivalent. The new one gives off strong Enterprise Energy…

2023-08-30 06:23:45

I’m trying to figure out a system for my reference material, so I’m looking for a macOS app for structured data — like spreadsheets, but with more field types and better editing experience, à la Notion / Airtable.
Any recommendations?
Bonus points for straightforward storage (text-based file format, or SQLite).