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Cake day: November 9th, 2024

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  • Postscript (not the P in PDF, even though I think it should have been) is how Portable Document Format is made.

    PostScript’s original purpose was for formatting documents to print with laser printers, but to also interpret font hinting and display features for lower resolution printing. But it required printers to process them before rasterization.

    It was so good at this that it made sense to also use it for the much lower resolution of computer screens once computers were powerful enough to do the rasterization themselves. Hence the PDF replacing most .PS (PostScript) files, unless you were a graphic design student in the late 90s.








  • Banning CFCs was the biggest hit to long-lasting, efficient AC and refrigeration.

    It was also critical to stopping the complete removal of the fucking ozone layer.

    That’s not to say we couldn’t build a lot more stuff without obsolescence fuses, unrepairable designs, and trickling out features to force unnecessary replacement.








  • My boomer dad was a sort of stay at home dad in the off season for his construction work. (Temperature dependent waterproofing).

    We got to spend winters wood working, skiing (he was an instructor and coach to allow us to afford it) and just being around to have fun with.

    He died too young to meet my son, but I’ve been basically working from home in a similar way as much as possible and just got home from the mountain where I work to get us free passes and lessons.

    Painting all boomers as misogynists is understandable, as many were, probably after being brought up by the war babies and silent ge. But many weren’t like that, had hippie roots and never succumbed to the yuppie greed that many did in the 80s.

    The housing crisis unlocked that in me, and I’ve never worked steady jobs since then. I was lucky enough to be part of what’s now called a lifestyle startup (prioritizing comfortable life work, instead of grinding growth), but we made it 10 years before our market vanished with COVID. But I wouldn’t change much, except getting better dental coverage and moving to a country with universal healthcare.