Harlan Haskins

@harlanhaskins.com

Last year, my team shipped a Swift rewrite of Apple's TrueType hinting interpreter. The new code is strictly memory safe, relentlessly tested, and faster than the C code it replaced. This year, it is my pleasure to ship it for a second time—now as an open source package—and to share our experience!

Swift Language@swift.org · 2mo ago

Memory-safe. 13% faster on average. ⚡️ The TrueType hinting interpreter in macOS and iOS has been rewritten in Swift, replacing the original C implementation. Pixel-perfect accuracy was validated across 27 million glyphs. And the results: www.swift.org/blog/migrati...

Did a 5 day glassblowing intensive course since I have a month between jobs. I cannot adequately express just how helpful it’s been to get incredible instruction + at least 20 more hours of studio time. Pictured is Day 1, then day 2, then day 4. Straighter, taller, thinner, and more consistent.

Three hand-blown glass cups. The first one is short, thick, and very askew. The second one is much straighter, taller, and slightly thinner. The third one is much straighter still, much thinner, totally straight, and has a handle.

Now that it’s December 31st I can confirm, only 3 recipes from the NYT cooking calendar can be sung to the tune of the teenage mutant ninja turtles theme song: March 8 & 9: Caramelized Banana Pudding May 9: Caramelized Zucchini Pasta September 9: Creamy Vegan Tofu Noodles

I’m quite excited today. Why? Because I got to delete 3500 lines of custom navigation (like 5 different navigation bars) and replace them all with system navigation. Good riddance!