Today, I found myself ensnared in the classic trap of dedicating an entire day to automate a task that, in all honesty, could’ve been wrapped up in five measly minutes. It’s like
During the past few days I’ve compared Apache PDFBox/FontBox with the Python FontTools library. Because I found that the FontTools-library was a lot better at extracting information about fonts, I’ve worked to
In the thortypetools project I’ve been experimenting with different font libraries for extracting glyphs and other information about a font so I can programatically create proofs, previews, JSON-documents and other useful files
The past few days I’ve been looking into tooling for the ThorType website. The project is available here. One such project is a Swing GUI application where I use Apache FontBox/PDFBox to
Today I put some finishing touches on the character table on ThorType. The menu needs improving, I should move it to the bottom of the screen or somewhere I can set up
Lately I’ve been working on improving my font portfolio website ThorType. It’s a Next.JS project that automatically deploys using a GitHub action to both my regular server and Fleek so my site
Today I finally got the GitHub action that builds the spring-boot application, a docker container from the jar and then publishes it on Dockerhub to work. The action came out looking something
Today I finished the first issue in the kubernetes testproject I’m playing around with. The Dockerfile itself was fairly straightforward, so I thought I’d set up a GitHub action to build the
About a year ago, I was applying for a job as a WordPress-developer, and I was given a coding test to develop a plugin. Thankfully, I didn’t go through with it, and
Now that I’ve managed to release a plugin for Glyphs 3, my next goal was to look into Kubernetes. I don’t have much of an idea for a usable application, so I
