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which means the best free Arabic font of the digital era is a one-man reconstruction of the best government-funded font of the metal era

A massive treatment of the difficulties of rendering Arabic text.

https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/

Alper Cugun
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A beautiful story of how iteration on an app is a process that’s worth it and that can yield something close to perfection like with Pedometer++. I wish every app had a person like this behind it who goes the distance and sweats every detail.

Knowing what to build, knowing when the system is telling you something, knowing when to cut, knowing when the fast path is the wrong path — these were never just “execution.” They were always the harder parts and to pretend they’re solved by AI is questionable, to say the least.