Graham Douglas
@readytext.co.uk
30 years in STM publishing & related industries, then redundancy hit a week before Christmas 2025. Am lucky, I have time to consider what next? 🤔 Ditched Windows for Linux—should have switched ages ago. Enjoy hobby programming, especially now using Linux!
Typo courtesy of one too many tins of Murphy's ... "Taken me almost a year to build it."
September 11, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Typo courtesy of one too many tins of Murphy's ... "Taken me almost a year to build it."
Again, these (eclectic) demos were created by my graphics toolchain (dozens of C/C++ libraries and a few tens of thousands of lines of Lua code (run via luajit)). Taken me a almost year to build it.
September 11, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Again, these (eclectic) demos were created by my graphics toolchain (dozens of C/C++ libraries and a few tens of thousands of lines of Lua code (run via luajit)). Taken me a almost year to build it.
Text shaping is done by the open source C/C++ library HarfBuzz, which took 10 years to perfect. Written by the utterly brilliant programmer, Behdad Esfahbod. It let's the world communicate.
September 11, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Text shaping is done by the open source C/C++ library HarfBuzz, which took 10 years to perfect. Written by the utterly brilliant programmer, Behdad Esfahbod. It let's the world communicate.
Truly, a death spiral... a PostScript to mortality ;-)
September 11, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Truly, a death spiral... a PostScript to mortality ;-)
These are all generated as rather large, but fully editable, vector SVGs... converted to PNG to make a short video.
September 8, 2026 at 1:07 PM
These are all generated as rather large, but fully editable, vector SVGs... converted to PNG to make a short video.
Greetings BT! How the devil are you! Thought I'd pop by to say hello. Apologies for butting into the discussion of your arse and pornbots 🤣
August 15, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Greetings BT! How the devil are you! Thought I'd pop by to say hello. Apologies for butting into the discussion of your arse and pornbots 🤣