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Chevy Ray
Personal blog · chevyray.dev/blogprogramminggames
Chevy Ray's personal blog at chevyray.dev covers programming and games. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on creating 175 fonts with Rust and on how the site itself is made. One commenter called the font post interesting; others cite its automatic kerning section.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Rust, programming, game development, worldbuilding, and art.
Most-linked posts?
- I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-09
What Hacker News says?
Cool fonts, and an interesting post. I kind of want the top-right fake game in https://chevyray.dev/blog/creating-175-fonts/old_previews.pn... to be real. It has a " Wonder Boy in Monster World on the GBA" vibe I think is nice. I have noticed that the license doesn't allow you to use the TTFs in open-source software, which is something to keep in mind. > Licensed Content may not be distributed to third parties as st…
Comment linking /blog/creating-175-fonts/old_previews.png
on “I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust”Submitted I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust as a story · 487 points
HN discussionI think they are referring to this section: https://chevyray.dev/blog/creating-175-fonts/#automatic-kern... In this case they are not using async but Rayon which provides some easy primitives for splitting tasks into smaller parts that can run in parallel. In this case the par_iter and par_extend calls.
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on “I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust”Submitted I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI actually liked some of the fonts and simple styling used in the site. Luckily it's available as another post: https://chevyray.dev/blog/how-this-site-is-made/#catppuccin-...
Comment linking /blog/how-this-site-is-made/
on “I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust”
