August 2014

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2014-08-25 Something completely different - For my birthday, my wife gave me a weekend alone. Originally, I planned on coding until the wee hours of the morning but then I decided to work on my novel instead.

2014-08-20 Miwāfu Glyphs Redux - Basic Font - Continuing my series of making a conscript, this describes the steps of going from a cleaned up vector version of the script to a basic font.

2014-08-19 Miwāfu Glyphs Redux - Vectors - Once I got a clean raster version of the glyphs, I use Inkscape to create a vector format which is suitable for importing into FontForge. Part 3 of creating a Miwāfu font.

2014-08-18 Miwāfu Glyphs Redux - Scanning - After drawing out the Miwāfu glyphs by hand, I had to scan them in and get them ready for us.

2014-08-17 Miwāfu Glyphs Redux - Redrawing - Since I picked up a few new calligraphy pens for my birthday, I tried to write out Miwāfu and found that it was a bit more difficult than I thought. So I redrew them until they weren't difficult.

2014-08-16 R5-D4 Plots - My philosophy for Fedran stories comes from a single conversation with a friend right before Star Wars I, The Phantom Menace, came out.

2014-08-08 Mailing lists and social networking - I realized that I haven't been obvious everywhere I hang my hat on social networks. Here is a list along with what I post where.

2014-08-07 Author Intrusion - Names - One of the complexities of authors is their names. I want to avoid making an assumption of how they are displayed and used. At the same time, I want to reuse the logic to handle character names within the story.

2014-08-02 Author Intrusion - A black triangle CLI - I reached the first visible moment in Author Intrusion with command-line tool that does one thing, convert Markdown into DocBook formats.

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