#Text Rendering

[j0ecool]

let's start by adding timing information to the texture generation; I don't notice it being slow now, but that can quickly change as I start stacking noise textures

that seems entirely reasonable, 4 128x128 textures/frame means we could do limited realtime generation, which is cool

now I should work on the UI. First up I need to get more symbols rendering

the issue is that I was lazy and didn't draw my glyphs aligned to their ASCII offsets

well I'd put that off until later, and later is now

.... ok that was tedious, but it's done

we'll also need to change the code from this ad-hoc bollocks

to this simpler and more complete version

et voila

[limbcom]

"Holding your hand doesn't have to mean that I accept your friendship," the liar said to the truthful, trying to lie in front of the only person who understands his intentions.

He knows, of course, that the liar did not lie. For the liar is also the truthful.

[lokirme]

Matrix Reimagined: Crafting Digital Rain with Bash and ChatGPT

Just for fun, and I have no idea why I thought about it, I decided to work with ChatGPT (4) to build a simple bash-based version of the Matrix Digital Rain. I know there’s already better versions, like cmatrix, but we do not do things because they are easy. We do them because we are bored. I’ve asked ChatGPT to heavily comment the code for us so that we can see exactly what’s going…

[infamouzsky]

Like The Other Ones

HI YES IM FINALLY DONE HOLY SHIT

OKAY SO this was based off on my own gameplay of COTL, I noticed that everytime Id put food orders in, Narinder would usually be the one to prepare them And honestly? We love a malewife in this house so I dig that for him, ma guy is a skilled cook <3

As I wrote down the dialogue, it just got deeper than I expected SO HERE YALL GO WITH A FULL ASS COMIC ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP, ENJOY!!!!

This shit took me weeks Ill go recharge my soul now brb-

EDIT: I DECIDED TO PUT A UNDERCUT Tab so yall dont have to scroll too much in order to read and see other posts ure welcome 🤼‍♀️ <3

[paintedcrows]

He may be a God, but I am a Scientist

[superstar-rockin-jay]

This made me burst into tears completely and genuinely

[transzsonix]

[tacoprophecies]

[Text: But the half part sees/ What the other half's got/ Sometimes I feel like I'd rather just rot.]

Had the song Wolf by AlicebanD stuck in my head for weeks so now it is a comic page thumbs up. Also, this is my second time writing alt text for a comic, so if anyone has feedback or wants to write a better one, please feel free and I can add it to the post :)

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[leftoblique]

A fun thing we needed to do in Chrome... You know those enhanced tooltips that show up when you hover a tab? They display up to two lines of the page title or filename, then an ellipsis. So, where do you truncate if there's overflow?

Well the naive thing to do is to do a binary search of where to cut the string, where you see if substr(title, n) + "..." will fit in the space. But it's harder than that because you can't just pick any N. Because if you cut a flag emoji, you get a different emoji! (The test example we used was "woman doctor dark skin tone" but it's the same problem - if you cut in the wrong place you get garbage or, worse, a white dude). So you have to identify those sequences and cut either before or after them.

That's hard enough (and resource intensive because you have to query the OS's text rendering engine to see what fits) but there's another far worse case: filenames. For files it's really important to get the start of the name but also the extension and (if it's an image) the dimensions. So you need to middle-elide the string.

I'll leave why this is a nightmare as an exercise to the reader, but I will also point out that text can be mixed LTR/RTL which adds yet another horrifying dimension to the problem.

I did it. But man, that sucked to implement.

Anyway, the moral of the story is that in order to correctly render multi-codepoint emoji in all cases requires a precise dance between the application and operating system, and it's extremely easy to fuck up.

I understand the technical reasons* why it happens but I hate that a lot of times the trans flag emoji shows up as 🏳️ ⚧️.

FIX YOUR UNICODE + EMOJI SUPPORT, EVERYWHERE.

It's often even inconsistent within a single site. Like it'll show up properly in usernames, but then break in page titles.

*Flags are a nightmare in unicode because they can't just encode specific flags or even specific countries, so there's a whole thing where flags are not codepoints, but instead there's a special Flag Alphabet and you make flags by encoding country names (accordin g to ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2, of course) with the Flag Alphabet. So, like, instead of there being a codepoint for the american flag, you just write [Regional Indicator Symbol Letter U][Regional Indicator Symbol Letter S], or "🇺🇸", which should show up as an american flag. It doesn't seem to work here for Reasons.

Anyway, since Trans People aren't a country (YET), they decided to do something different: It's a ZWJ emoji!

Zero Width Joiners are a trick used in a bunch of places in emojispace to do variants. It's a used to glue multiple symbols together to make new emoji without needing to define new code points, with a hopefully sensible fallback. So like, when there's a symbol for, like, "postal worker", you can get a "female postworker" emoji by doing [female emoji][ZWJ][postal worker]" and the rendering engine is supposed to apply a gender-specific variant of the emoji for this.

So to make the trans flag, they used a generic flag 🏳️ [U-1F3F3 WAVING WHITE FLAG] , then an emoji selector (which just says "render this as emoji"), then a ZWJ, then the preexisting trans symbol ⚧️ [U-26A7 MALE WITH STROKE AND MALE AND FEMALE SIGN], then another emoji selector. So it's actually five characters, and your browser is trying very hard to render it as one. or two, depending.

I JUST WANT IT TO WORK. I know why it doesn't, and unicode is hard, but still. I want trans flags everywhere and everyday and in everything I type. my keyboard should have a trans flag button. in fact, why haven't I made that yet? time to order a custom keycap and get to programming.

[buttered-toasty]

Ignore the half-assed background, it’s not actually supposed to Be the background, I just wanted to post this in case I never finish the second half (maglor)

I have thoughts about them. Many thoughts.

[veinsfullofstars]

🌅 MetaDede Week 2024 Day 5 & 6: AU & Secrets 🌅

(ID: Kirby series fanart comic of a moment in King Dedede and Meta Knight’s youth, when - during a trip to the beach with their friends - the teenaged penguin realizes that he might feel more than just friendship for his little winged buddy. Transcript in Alt Text. END ID.)

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Started 08/20/24, finished 08/24/24. | Childhood Friends AU Masterpost

[kroosluvr]

royal trio

[numbuh424]

The unstoppable, mighty hurricane and the immovable, cold, hard truth.

[alkallier]

Space police

@weepingdeputycolorbear

[the-lemonaut]

Cloth physics are really kicking my ass. Anyways, I've been a Teenage Exocolonist several times in the past few weeks. It was fun sometimes, it was tough sometimes, but it was gorgeous, always.

(I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is a game that you should play! It's fun! (It's painful))

[itsevansart]

sketch

make my day by reblogging and not reposting!