#2025

Styled checkboxes for Obsidian tasks without plugins or a custom theme

Stylized checkboxes in Obsidian (e.g. custom icons for canceled, rescheduled, in progress etc.) without a custom theme or plugins.

How to enable custom fonts in Obsidian Mobile

One of the challenges with note taking apps on mobile is the limited font selection. While desktops let you install custom fonts system-wide, mobile platforms are much more restrictive.

However, there’s an elegant solution for Obsidian given it’s an electron app. Obsidian allows you to inject a CSS snippet to tweak the appearnace of the app. CSS allows you to embed base64 encoded fonts directly in them for styling text 💡.

#2024

My new programming font - Commit Mono

I’ve been using this font for a while as my primary programming font and referenced it in one of my newsletters. Thought i’ll share this more prominently. This website now uses Commit Mono for code. I customized a few of the characters:

#2023

Slashed 0 in IBM Plex - freeze alt. characters in otf fonts

How to freeze some of the font characters in an OTF font to the alternative version. Taking the slashed zero character as an example with the font IBM Plex Mono. This blog post will explain how you can pick alternative characters with OTF fonts and build a version of the font that will permanently turn these alternative character variants on.

#2022

My new programming font - Recursive

How to customize and build the font Recursive - a versatile font for programming

High quality vector icons from Yoolk Ninja

Here's a good resource for high quality app icons.

#2021

Introducing Henry for Hugo

Henry - a customizable elegant Hugo theme with a gorgeous reading experience and packed with features

Introducing Henry for Jekyll

Henry - a customizable elegant Jekyll theme with a gorgeous reading experience and packed with features

#2020

My new programming font - Iosevka

How to customize and build the font Iosevka on macOS - a versatile font for programming

#2018

Squircle and sweating the design details

This is such a fantastic post on how Apple sweats certain almost unnoticeable design details.

I picked up a whole bunch of nuggets reading this article:

…iPhone X rounded screen corners don’t use the classic rounding method where you move in a straight line and then arc using a single quadrant of a circle. Instead, the math is a bit more complicated. Commonly called a squircle, the slope starts sooner, but is more gentle.

My new programming font - IBM Plex Mono

I’m obsessed with typefaces and fonts .¹

My programming productivity is irrationally dependent on the font I pick for my IDE. I have spent unhealthy amounts of time experimenting and trying different fonts for programming.

I usually prefer a monospaced font and I’ve bounced between Inconsolata and Consolas in the past – both truly beautiful typefaces.

Recently though, a design director at Instacart shared this link on the laws of UX (a fantastic read btw).

#2012

on the new Twitter logo

Twitter’s got a new logo. It’s clean and simple. But here’s a more astute observation from underconsideration.com :

For the most part, all the news sources reporting on the revised bird have focused on its visual update, which I will get to soon, but the real story here is that Twitter has dropped its name from the logo. If you look at the opening image of this post, the change is quite drastic. And ballsy. Twitter has achieved in less than six years what Nike, Apple, and Target took decades to do: To be recognizable without a name, just an icon.

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