I Was On the Front Page of Hacker News and All I Got was This $4 Hosting Overage and a Single Instagram Follower
Rutherford
@craze.co.uk
Furniture enthusiast. Type designer at @mass-driver.com (this account mostly off-topic/personal)
"everyone in the middle ages believed in astrology and the stars having a direct impact on outcomes on earth" sounds like wacky superstitition to us today but i think would seem much more intuitive as a belief if you could see the sky like they got to see it.
Wrote some stuff. Read to the end for my first f-bomb on the company account in 6½ years
Mass-Driver@mass-driver.com · 2mo agoIt’s taken a while to put into words what I find so distasteful about AI in type design (even — especially — the ‘boring parts’). It’s not the threat of being put out of a job. Some thoughts: mass-driver.com/article/from...
this is what it feels like to make a font
Adam Vian@sfbdim.bsky.social · 2mo agothis is what it feels like to make a game
hey siri please text my loved ones for me, god I hate spending time interacting with the people I care about
watching WWDC against my better judgement and it's amazing that even Apple's AI bullshit boils down to "hey siri do my parenting for me" or "hey siri, i don't want to look at the texts i had with my wife and remember all the fun little interactions we have just pull this one thing out of it for me"
People love historical what if scenarios. What if JFK was never assassinated? What if the Nazis won in WW2? A scenario I never see discussed is what if the aids crisis didnt decimate the gay men of America in the 80s-90s? Its easy to forget 1 in 15 gay boomer men died. An estimated 300,000 deaths-
‘ethical concerns aside’ is the ‘I’m not racist but’ of LLM discourse
Daybreak (Part III) — Cartridge design & custom lettering for the 2026 My #Famicase Exhibition at METEOR, Tokyo (@super-meteor.bsky.social)
they call it a font of evil because fonts are evil
Most text rendering middleware for games only supports `kern` table kerning, but most fonts only ship with GPOS kerning data, so text can be badly spaced even if the same font looks fine outside the game (This might be my single biggest criticism of Marathon, the screen says ‘EXFIL TRA TED’)
Mary Kenney@marykgames.com · 5mo agoWhat’s your low-stress, low-prio pet peeve in video games? Ex: For my old boss, it was nonsensical titles on books in the background. Mine is plants placed where plants could definitely not live. She needs a window or a grow light!! She needs to eat!!!!
dyslexia-friendly/‘hyperlegible’ fonts are a marketing gimmick, not a meaningful solution for accessibility
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?
happy 2nd birthday to the bug report I filed about @penpot.app’s broken font implementation
New release: MD UI. The International Typographic Style projected one step into the future. UI is a neo-grotesque tuned for maximum performance across all scales; a typeface that augments the function of a timeless form. Available today in 48 styles. mass-driver.com/typefaces/md...
my brain: we need to focus. Lock in. Deadline tomorrow, lots of work still needs to be done. It’s very important we focus, otherwise we won’t finish everything in time. also my brain: low poly rat challenge. Make a low poly rat right now
Manifesting a singleplayer game with this art direction Simply gorgeous
update: the peach chipotle salsa (as it ended up being) has mellowed very well. I made myself a sandwich with most of what was left over & a very blue Montgomery cheddar. 11/10
Rutherford@craze.co.uk · 6mo agothrew together what i thought would be a low-effort imitation of a peach habanero salsa I vaguely remember having about a month ago, half the ingredients substituted (including the habaneros) Reader, it is one of the best things i have ever made
threw together what i thought would be a low-effort imitation of a peach habanero salsa I vaguely remember having about a month ago, half the ingredients substituted (including the habaneros) Reader, it is one of the best things i have ever made
begging the people who make toasters and the people who make washing machines to talk to each other about how long a minute is
achievement unlocked: capable of listening to a podcast while kerning (only took 14 years of practice)
it’s 2026 and people are still making websites with that stupid laggy smooth-scrolling that feels like trying to run underwater
This is entirely true (also my strategy for pricing WIP fonts). 16 bucks is 10 bucks and that’s how I could afford rent in 2020
Ash Wayling (M0D3Rn)@ashwayling.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe developers of PEAK explain pricing
I made mulled wine sorbet & there’s nothing on the calendar for the next week. Merry christmas
starting to feel much more comfortable programming complex systems. Had an idea yesterday for a kind of Dishonored-style character controller based on parallel state machines #screenshotsaturday #gamedev
I spent over a year designing this font license (& almost 5 years refining it), with gamedev as a primary use case. Just about every indie foundry I know is actively trying to improve this stuff, despite Monotype repeatedly setting the font industry’s collective goodwill on fire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mass-Driver@mass-driver.com · 8mo agoFor any game developers* caught by the Monotype/Fontworks price hikes: - you can use our fonts for video games - there are no usage caps or renewal fees - unrestricted trial fonts for in-engine testing - smaller dev teams pay less. mass-driver.com *Extended Latin support, but not Japanese, sorry!
