Introducing the new SI prefixes: ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto, for 1027, 1030, 10-27, 10-30.
Building the fastest Lua interpreter.. automatically!, “why can’t we implement a special compiler to automatically generate a high-performance interpreter”.
Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/s: How I Learned To Love Tail Calls in C, by Josh Haberman.
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font, fun debugging story…
Soyuz Grotesk (2017), by Roman Gornitsky, about designing Cyrillic fonts.
Mona & Hubot Sans, two variable, open source fonts from GitHub.
Nupuram Malayalam Typeface, “Taking full advantage of variable font technology, Nupuram offers an unprecedented level of flexibility, all from a single font file. Nupuram has 4 variable axes: Weight, Width, Slant and Softness.”
A bug fix in the 8086 microprocessor, revealed in the die’s silicon, by Ken Shirriff.
jqjq, a jq implementation of jq.