McEs, A Hacker Life

Behdad Esfahbod's daily notes on GNOME, Pango, Fedora, Persian Computing, Bob Dylan, and Dan Bern!

Friday, May 01, 2015

How to use custom application fonts with Pango

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I am at the Libre Graphics Meeting in Toronto this week, which means that I got to talk to GIMP and Inkscape developers after many years, a...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

GLyphy

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GLyphy is an experiment in high-quality glyph rendering using OpenGL ES2 shaders.  It's a project of mine at Google that I never really...
Sunday, January 05, 2014

linux.conf.au

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In the Summer of 2003 I visited Ottawa for a Computer Science workshop.  Before getting there I also noticed that there's Ottawa Linux S...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Iran Presidential Election 2013 Vote Count per County

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Just finished downloading the 125 pages of vote counts from the Ministry of Internal Affairs portal , massaged them into usable data and put...
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

High-DPI, Subpixel Text Positioning, Hinting

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What happens when an unstoppable bullet hits an impenetrable wall? A while back I wrote a document about the interactions of high-density d...
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011

"Behdad's Calendar" now available at taghvim.info

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Since behdad.org is blocked in Iran these days, I went ahead and made my Iranian calendar thingy available at taghvim.info .  Let me know i...
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Saturday, October 08, 2011

In MontrĂ©al for “Boston” Summit

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After a crazy Oktoberfest party in Kitchener last night, I woke up at 6:45 this morning, drove back to Toronto, took the ferry to the Island...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Events of significance for Sep 26 and Sep 27

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1982: I was born. 1998: Google was born . 2011: My personal website was filtered in Iran. 2011: Roozbeh joined Google.
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Can I has intel tablet?

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So I missed the intel party it seems. I assume the tablets are GLES2-ready and have a fair pixel density. If that is the case, I can make ...
Sunday, August 07, 2011

Arrived at the Desktop Summit

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Just got to the Desktop Summit in Berlin. It's lovely seeing everyone after two years. I'm running Text Layout Summit August 9th ...
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