However, MSDF can handle lots of distance-based effects (glow, shadow, outline, gradient, etc.)[1], and I don't think Slug does that. And MSDF is constant time whereas (I think) Slug is going to vary depending on the complexity of the font.

The Slug paper [2] says:

  All of the techniques that store data in a texture atlas are inherently using a discrete
  sampling of what is actually an infinitely precise description of a glyph outline. This
  inescapably leads to limitations that can be mitigated by increasing the resolution of
  the texture atlas, but that can never be completely removed. For applications that
  need to render a wide range of characters at potentially large font sizes, a texture atlas
  capable of producing glyphs at an acceptable level of quality may have prohibitively
  large storage requirements.

[2] https://jcgt.org/published/0006/02/02/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_Park_(video_game)

There's a different blog series that does go into plate tectonics: https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2023/11/13/around-the-world-2...

Coincidentally Civ 7 just announced they're using plates with voronoi for their new map generator.

I spend almost zero time moderating, because I've outsourced it to blogger/disqus. I'm not a big fan of disqus but the comments provide so much value to me, and disqus does the moderation so well, that I keep using it for now.

I think of it like giving a talk at a conference, and having questions afterwards. At some conferences, the questions are a waste of time. But at other conferences, the questions are quite valuable. I think comments don't work well on all sites. But they work well on mine.

At least on Firefox/Mac, sometimes while dragging it "picks up" the image to drag it. This should prevent that.

Each of those icons is a full year of weather data. Left to right is Jan to Dec. Bottom to top is the hours of the day. The pixel color tells you cold vs hot.

And it doesn't scroll endlessly. It will display this at the bottom of the page:

> You're all caught up on Most Recent posts

> Check back later for more updates

[1] https://emacs-tree-sitter.github.io/

A large part of the reason I'm using these other services instead of hosting my own is because of mobile apps + browser extensions.

1. antialiasing should be done in linear rgb space instead of srgb space [1] [2]

2. because of the lack of (1) for decades, fonts have been tweaked to compensate, so sometimes srgb is better [3] [4]

Do you have advice on linear vs srgb space antialiasing?

[1] https://www.puredevsoftware.com/blog/2019/01/22/sub-pixel-ga...

[2] http://hikogui.org/2022/10/24/the-trouble-with-anti-aliasing...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12023985

[4] http://hikogui.org/2022/10/24/the-trouble-with-anti-aliasing...

https://wwwtyro.net/2019/11/18/instanced-lines.html is also nice.