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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 7: Lineto

Founded in 1993 by Cornel Windlin and Stephan Müller, Lineto is Switzerland’s first digital type foundry. Over the last three decades, Lineto has collaborated with type designers from all around the world and shaped one of the most impressive and high-quality libraries avail...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 6: Ohno Type Company

Sometimes, it can take quite a while for a foundry to finally become sustainable. Sometimes, like in the case of James Edmondson, it can take 17 type families. James Edmondson started Ohno in 2015, “born from a love of expressive typography and craft.” And, as he shares in a...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 5: Milieu Grotesque

Milieu Grotesque was founded in 2010 by graphic and type designers Timo Gaessner and Alexander Colby in Zurich. Today, the foundry is based in Lisbon, Portugal. Milieu Grotesque’s typefaces are versatile and system-oriented but also have a distinctive and often slightly quir...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 4: TypeMates

TypeMates is a comparatively young foundry from Germany, founded in 2015 by Lisa Fischbach, Jakob Runge, and Nils Thomsen. Despite its young age, the foundry has already worked with large clients on custom typefaces and has managed to grow its catalogue of typefaces into an ...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 3: Klim Type Foundry

For day three, we travel to New Zealand, where Klim Type Foundry was founded in 2005 by type designer Kris Sowersby. After having worked a while as a graphic designer, Kris was contacted by Chester Jenkins from Vllg who wanted to release Kris’ first typeface Feijoa. It was p...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 2: Dinamo

Dinamo is another type foundry from Switzerland, founded by Fabian Harb and Johannes Breyer in Basel. After moving to Berlin for a few years, they now operate from different cities and via a network of satellite members across the globe. They don’t see themselves as a foundr...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 1: Grilli Type

We’ll start the advent calendar with one of the most successful foundries of the last decade. Grilli Type is a Swiss type foundry that was founded in 2009 by Noël Leu and Thierry Blancpain. Today, the studio numbers eight people dispersed all across the globe. The foundry is...

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The Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar 2022

The independent type design community has grown tremendously over the last couple of years and the quality and variety of fonts is truly breathtaking. A little while ago, I started jotting down a few type foundries to have a list that I could come back to whenever I was in n...

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A Conversation With ChatGPT

I just had a casual chat with ChatGPT that I wanted to share with you. Many of the things I asked and the answers I received are related to a talk I gave last week at CSS Café. I wanted to know what an algorithm might think about all of this. Decide for yourself where this ...

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ChatGPT, please explain websites in the words of William Shakespeare

Websites, oh websites!

Thou art a vast and wondrous realm, filled with knowledge and information to be explored.

Thou art a tool for communication and connection, allowing us to share our thoughts and ideas with others across the globe.

Thou art a source of entertainment and delight, providing us with endless hours of distraction and enjoyment.

Websites, thou art a marvel of modern technology, a gift to humanity.

Long may thou reign!

Generated with ChatGPT, which you can currently test for free during the research preview.

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Transient Frameworks

Since the first days of the Web, people have been thinking and debating hard about the best ways forward. The network, the protocols, the browsers, the documents, HTML, CSS, and Javascript – all those things are the result of years of countless discussions, fights, mistakes,...

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🎬 Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

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Jason must stink for miles by now. It’s a miracle he’s still able to surprise-kill anyone at this point.

For me, same is true as with part 6: not the best, not the worst (I think?!). I somewhat liked the ending when Jason’s “face” is revealed and everything explodes. The supernatural hocus-pocus wasn’t that bad either.

Oh, yeah, and I found the very ending hilarious where the one firefighter shows the other where there’s more fire to extinguish – as if that wasn’t obvious.

On to part eight…

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🎬 Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

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This episode certainly has humour! Jason seems to be surprised by hisown new-found super-strength. And that makes for some funny kills.

It’s mostly fun to watch (if you’re into that stuff). We certainlyalways have an enjoyable evening progressing through this series. Butultimately, it suffers from the same issues most other parts sufferfrom. Not the worst so far, but no the best either.

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🎬 The Matrix Reloaded

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Ok, I have much to complain about with this one. This feels like 80% endless action scenes and 20% story. If you’re into those bullet-time, kung-fu, wire-flying, super-CGI, camera-flying scenes, that will be just your thing, I guess. But I found this eye-rollingly boring. This could have been a one-hour film. It’s not like I dislike all of it; there were certainly good scenes – even partly said action scenes! But overall it’s way too long and unsubstantial. It’s even like the story didn’t progress at all in this.

At least Trinity could simply ssh into a computer and disable the emergency power supply of that building with a simple terminal command. Much more realistic than those UIs in their real world.

And it had RATM in the ending credits.

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🎬 Big John

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What a likeable dude, this John Carpenter. Just doing his thing, makingthe films he wants to make; not giving a shit what others think.Although having “The Thing” flop commercially really got to him. And hehad every right to be upset about this; because it’s such a terrificfilm. Anyhow, this documentary gives lots of insights about his carrierand his filmography. Worth a watch, especially when you’re into hiswork!

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🎬 Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind

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A great documentary about a great album. Lots of fantastic interviewswith the people involved as well as notable critics of the time. It’s alot about how this album came to be and what its unexpected successmeant for Nirvana and music (-history) in general. Some excellent livefootage, too.

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🎬 The Matrix

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Still not much to complain about. Such a classic!

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Leaving Twitter Behind

Twitter is not well. Many of us were worried that Elon Musk might rapidly change the face of the platform. But only very few expected things to go down so rapidly. After the latest deadline to respond whether they want to stay, it looks like about 75 % of the remaining workf...

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Converting Your Twitter Archive to Markdown

The bird is not well. So it is time to request and download an archive of your Twitter data now, if you haven’t done this recently. After you have requested your archive, it can take a while until you receive it. I requested my archive on the day Elon walked in and got an em...