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title: "π Notes β 09:32 Thu 19 Jun 2025 β David Bushell β Web Dev (UK)"
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date: 2025-06-19
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- fonts
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David's design on his blog is fantastic likely from years of small improvements like this converting ugly quotes to pretty quotes and optimizing fonts.
> Itβs common for markdown libraries to convert the first to the second like my build script does.
This is new to me, I had no idea that markdown libraries did this, I'm now interested if markdown-it does it.
> For subsetting I use the fontTools library but Iβve no idea how to setup Python environments. I got it working once and failed to document the process.
David, David, David, I'm sorry python has done you this dirty. I should do a post on making python environments in the age of Posts tagged: uv. You got options to run in docker/podman, a whole ass vm, uv venv, uvx, uv run, uv script, python -m venv, virtualenv, poetry, hatch, and too many more. The ones that matter are containers or uv.
!!! note
This post is a thought. It's a short note that I make
about someone else's content online #thoughts
