Hacker News: numisthttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=numistHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:07:35 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by numist in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter"]]>Thanks!

]]>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:58:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511733numisthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511733https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511733<![CDATA[New comment by numist in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter"]]>There's mention at the end. The models (and Swift itself!) have evolved a lot since this project started, so the early code is largely hand-rolled and the later changes were mostly authored by centaurs (to steal a term from chess).

But I personally reviewed every line that shipped and was absolutely insufferable about testing.

]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:49:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510284numisthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510284https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510284<![CDATA[New comment by numist in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter"]]>I'm also here :)

]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:45:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509795numisthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509795https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509795<![CDATA[New comment by numist in "When we were first adding Mac OS X guest support at VMware (2022)"]]>Not many! They fired the entire hosted-ui team in 2016 (ref: https://blog.chipx86.com/2016/01/26/a-tribute-to-vmware-work... )

]]>Tue, 30 May 2023 21:18:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36130976numisthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36130976https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36130976<![CDATA[New comment by numist in "When we were first adding Mac OS X guest support at VMware (2022)"]]>Pretty much. When I was at VMware (2007-2011) the canonical logo used small caps for the capital letters. I thought it looked nice.

]]>Tue, 30 May 2023 21:14:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36130909numisthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36130909https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36130909