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rootexton AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing

Awesome article.

SDF(or mSDF) isn't the future. It's already "good enough" classic.

> This works, but performance tanks hard, as we solve every > bezier curve segment per pixel

This is "the future" or even present as used in Slug and DirectWrite with great performance

https://sluglibrary.com/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/directwrite/...

rootexton Svelte 5 Released

https://component-party.dev/compare/svelte4-vs-svelte5 best format to compare to my mind

rootexton PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default

It seems you are mixing two things: inner string representation and read/write encoding. Java has never used UTF-16 as default for the second.

rootexton Deadcode: Finding unreachable functions in Go

Dart compiler does it, as I know.

rootexton Aegis Authenticator – Secure 2FA App for Android

You can import/export to Google Authenticator only and you must have two phones. You cannot backup QR codes because screenshot is forbidden for security reason. You cannot migrate to another application.

rootexton GraphQL kinda sucks

> It doesn't support map/tables/dictionaries. This is actually huge.

It's actually easy to implement. Just define custom scalar type: scalar JSON type MyObject { myField: JSON }

https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/schema/cust...