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in the hour. but we start with the first public hearing of the january 6th committee. which is set to be a primetime hearing, next thursday. the bipartisan panelists interviewed about 1000 people, and received tens of thousands of pages of documents. they have the attempts by the president and his allies to overturn the election, and the attack on our democracy that culminated in the deadly insurrection. we have talked a lot on the show about how close we actually came to you losing our democracy that day. how the threat to our democracy is not over. but is in fact growing with repub...

Postscript is all but gone, and today, newer font standards such as TrueType and OpenType rule the roost. Here's how we got from desktop PostScript in the early '80s to today.

Postscript is all but gone, and today, newer font standards such as TrueType and OpenType rule the roost.

I love text layout, and have been working with it in one form or other for over 35 years. Yet, knowledge about it is quite arcane. I don’t believe there is a single place where it’s all properly written down. I have some explanation for that: while basic text layout is very important for UI, games, and other contexts, a lot of the “professional” needs around text layout are embedded in much more complicated systems such as Microsoft Word or a modern Web browser.

A wonderfully technical deep-dive into the world of GPU font rendering. Our engineer, David Stern, talks about the engineering and performance challenges he faced when fixing text rendering in Warp.