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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 13h

some programming fonts i'm currently switching back and forth between:
julia mono
noto mono
nitti
consolas
atkinson hyperlegible

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · 15h

what’s Mastodon? 😉

cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · 5d

sponsors for juliacon awaiting break time - and croissants compiling away opposite

#julialang #juliaconlocal #juliacon

sponsors for jukiacon - and croissants compiling away opposite

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · 6d

the grouo photo is going to happen ! #julialang #juliaconlocal #paris

a group photo is about to be taken outside the big building

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · 6d

Entrance to #juliacon !

#julialang #juliaconlocal #paris

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · 6d

#juliacon #julialang #juliaconlocal #paris

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · 16d

but ….. they’re full of money 😂

cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · 18d

trying to place the sponsor logos in a more interesting way, rather than just arranging them in a boring grid. not sure it works ... 🤔

#juliacon #julialang

poster for juliacon Paris 2025 - with sponsor logos

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · 18d

“non-consensual type misappropriation” might do 😀

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · 19d

even if today is #talklikeapirate day - you should try to avoid type piracy in #julialang - otherwise you'll have to wear this (or walk the plank)...

a t-shirt bearing the likeness of Vcat the pirate cat, the mascot of the Pirates of the Type System...

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · 19d

I think choosing a name such as `svg` or `pdf` or `draw` is tempting fate a bit 😀

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · 29d

unicode 17.0 officially "released" today

blog.unicode.org

#unicode #fonts #emoji #typeography

some of the new emojis defined by Unicode 17.0

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · Aug 28

a #monospaced #blackletter #font, suitable (⁉️) for old-school coding …

github.com/cormullion/J...

left, illustration from The Aberdeen Bestiary (c. 1200), edited to show a very early McBook; to the right is shown some code set in a futuristic (c. 1500) blackletter font.

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · Aug 23

“Scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful, and have switched to Bluesky“

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40637733/

Scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful, and have switched to Bluesky - PubMed

Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For the past decade, Twitter has been a primary home of sc...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · Aug 19

from the #julialang user survey - Bluesky and Xitter about level

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · Jul 22

any #julialang folks at #juliacon? Show us what we’re missing! 😂

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · May 29

that’s a Unicode character found in lots of fonts unicodeplus.com/U+1D54F - saved him paying a designer I expect

"𝕏" U+1D54F: Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X (Unicode Character)

The unicode character U+1D54F (𝕏) is named "Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X" and belongs to the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. It is HTML encoded as 𝕏.

unicodeplus.com

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michielstock.bsky.social @michielstock.bsky.social · May 27

Finally, a new blog post! The Walk on Spheres algorithm is an elegant method for solving elliptic PDEs. Minimal implementation using #julialang

michielstock.github.io/posts/2025/W...

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · May 27

genius on tap, advert from 1886.

cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · May 25

www.myfonts.com/collections/... 🤣

Lily UPC Font | Webfont & Desktop | MyFonts

Lily™ UPC Regular is a Thai font designed by Unity Progress and offered under license from Microsoft. The Lily UPC Regular Font includes the Thai code page 8...

www.myfonts.com

cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · May 25

@thebeautyoftransport.com a typographical puzzler for you 🤣 #fonts

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · May 22

this article thebeautyoftransport.com/2015/05/13/o... doesn’t suggest a definitive answer to this 🤔 Given the technology at the time, I wonder how many changes they’d want to make ..

On Line Typeface (Rail Alphabet typeface, Margaret Calvert/Jock Kinneir, UK)

When British Rail unveiled its comprehensive corporate identity in 1964, one of the key elements which made it work was a new typeface. It was called Rail Alphabet and it has subsequently proved to…

thebeautyoftransport.com

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · May 19

you can still see the #manicule on old street signs round our way 😀

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · May 18

Luxor.jl can now add #typst text - including equations - to drawings. Useful for those with latex allergy 😉 Big thanks to Jakob Peters for his hard work! 🙏

#julialang #typst #epitrochoid

vscode and Julia code drawing epitrochoid and equations using Typst

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · May 14

anyone good at HTML?

github.com/JuliaCon/www...

Add Bluesky to social media · Issue #660 · JuliaCon/www.juliacon.org

Perhaps we could add Bluesky to the bottom of the page? The social media section at presentshows (a bit untidily): Personally, I'd be happy to see the Xitter link removed entirely, but at least add...

github.com

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