Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about.
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| Harmony Bay |
- Microsoft’s font substitution for Aptos really sucks. "Microsoft’s alternatives for the new Aptos fonts range are very poor. In some cases, the substitions make no sense at all. We’ve looked at what happens if a document with Aptos fonts is opened Office 2016 and earlier versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook."
- The Plain View. "The best virtual reality experience I’ve had this year was not with the $500 Quest 3 or the $3,500 Apple VisionPro, and it didn’t even require a headset. Sure, it cost $2.3 billion. But it came with a live soundtrack from an iconic rock band." Attending a concert at The Sphere is now on my bucket list.
- How to add Markdown support to Google Docs. "You have an alternative to keyboard shortcuts." Markdown continues its inexorable march to world domination.
- Cats first finagled their way into human hearts and homes thousands of years ago – here’s how. If you are a cat person, you will find this article quite interesting.
- Disney+ censoring classic Disney cartoons to reflect modern sensibilities. This is just wrong.
- Adobe and Microsoft break some old files by removing PostScript font support. "PostScript Type 1 fonts are decades old, but apps supported them until recently." This could be a problem if you have old documents that you are trying to open.
- Terry Bisson’s History of the Future. "For more than two decades, one of pulp sci-fi’s masters has delivered headlines from a time line defined by the absurd." Bisson gets profiled in the New Yorker. See my blog post about his novel, Fire on the Mountain.
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