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- Learn to kern, with a fun game.
- macOS Sonoma has an improved typography palette.
- Test your colors against accessibility standards.
- I love Libertinus, an extended family of free, full-feature fonts that can handle Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and more.
- When analyzing Millennials, Gen Z, and other gens, we should be more cautious.
- I wasn’t able to make it, but the men at church discussed this article about worship at our most recent breakfast.
- Shane Lems on what to expect from Alan Strange’s new book, Empowered Witness.
I haven’t forgotten my photo challenge. I had some trouble renewing my micro.blog account over the last week, but it’s fixed now and I can start catching up.
📸 Day 6 of 30 | windy
📸 Day 5 of 30 | serene
Even though I was sick at the time, I enjoyed this quiet moment painting a watercolor of my bicycle at this beachside park.
🎵 Johnny Costa Plays Mister Roger’s Neighborhood Jazz very well.
🎵 Jay Nelsestuen, thanks for the the introduction to Djesse. After a month I’m still on volume 1, but…wow.
📸 Day 4 of 30 | foliage
For several years Julie Beck has been publishing articles in The Atlantic on friendship. Check out: The Friendship Files.
Some folks in Tucson are hoping to reduce homelessness with a tiny-home village. This is a bold experiment from which I suspect we will learn a lot.
📸 Day 3 of 30 | card
A special birthday card from a friend who loves the American West as much as I do.
📸 Day 2 of 30 | flowers
For April I’m sharing a photo a day for the Micro.blog April 2024 Photo Challenge. No foolin’.
📸 Day 1 of 30 | toy
Big Resurrection Day at Covenant. In addition to our regular service, we also had two reaffirmations of faith, two baptisms, and a delicious, brunch-based lunch. It’s wonderful to see and enjoy all the Lord is doing.
AZ, our Presidential Preference Election is today. Democrats and Republicans can vote for the probable candidates, or they can protest vote for whom they wish were the nominee. Here’s the deal on Independents.
Note: the primary on July 30th is for candidates other than president.
typography links
I loved Tyler Cowen’s interview with Masaaki Suzuki. Now I’m curious about enka, the music of Tori Takemitsu, and thanks to Mr. Cowen’s links, Music, Modernity, and God.
Infinite Craft at neal.fun is fun. My son showed it to me last night. He even made some never-seen-before creations. I tried to do that too, but couldn’t do it. However, I was pretty pleased with myself for creating Darth Sauron.
Last week, ChatGPT went off the rails for a minute, but still…
the fact that the most popular AI tool in the world and arguably the primary reason we’re currently in the middle of an AI boom can suddenly go off the rails without warning is a great reminder that we can’t trust these tools blindly.
Read the full story.