March 18, 2018
Level up your terminal game with iTerm2’s Hotkey Window and text settings
Occasionally, I’ll be talking with someone as I’m on my computer, and I pull up my terminal to enter a git command or something similar. If they use the terminal a lot but haven’t seen or tried the “hotkey window” in a terminal before, they sometimes…
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December 17, 2017
Getting started in Drawbot, part 3: making a perfect, expandable grid
Goedemorgen! This is the third post in a small series about using Python in Drawbot, for Parametric design. If you haven’t read the other posts yet, check out part 1 and part 2 . In this post, I’ll be doing a deep-dive into the thought process…
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December 16, 2017
Getting started with parametric design in DrawBot, Part 2
The following are notes taken from Just van Rossum’s Python class in the KABK Type and Media program, on Sep 20, 2017. If you haven’t yet learned anything about Drawbot, start with part 1 of this series . In these classes, Just does a great job of…
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December 15, 2017
Make the macOS command line super convenient with aliases
You may already know that the command line allows you to interact with the core of your computer via the “bash” shell (I’m resisting the urge to get into etymology and a description of shells, but if you’re curious, check out the “More Reading…
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December 10, 2017
Getting started with parametric design in DrawBot
As part of Type and Media I am taking classes on Python from Just van Rossum (Just is pronounced like “Yoost”). Just has done a ton to move type design technology forward, such as being one of the three main developers of the UFO font file…
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November 01, 2017
How to generate simple sample strings with Python in the macOS command line
Recently, I wrote a post about manipulating strings with Python to help in font testing (from here, I’ll refer to this as “the previous post”). I received the feedback/tip that Python can also help you generate the alphabet or digits quickly and…
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October 31, 2017
How to manipulate a string with Python in the macOS command line
These weeks, I’m doing a lot of type design for class, and part of this is testing fonts that are just in their early stages, often with a very limited character set. For this, I find myself needing to work with strings of text to test my partially…
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September 14, 2017
Use Drawbot with GitHub and VS Code
My TypeMedia class is taking our first forays into Drawbot, a program that allows you to make drawings and animations programmatically with Python. To me, it feels a lot like CodePen for Python. However, there are a few things that Drawbot doesn’t…
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September 13, 2017
Handle events in Gatsby React Components
My initial question: I’ve recently been working on a blog using GatsbyJS, which is based on React. The main challenge I have with it right now is how to the use javascript to manipulate the DOM in react. I know basic javascript, but my basic…
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September 03, 2017
How to type with emoji and special characters on macOS 🎨
Quick: you need to add an emoji to an email/document/mockup – what do you do? What if you instead need to add a special character, like a ℉ or ® sign? I used to reach for something like Emojipedia or Amp-What , then copy-and-paste from there…
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