Remember Lenny

Text rendering stuff most people might not know

rememberlenny — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 05:01:38 +0000

I was stuck on a problem that I wanted to write out. The problem I was trying to solve could be simplified to the following: I have a box in the browser with fixed dimensions. I have a large number of words, which vary in size, which will fill the box. If a full box […]

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Making the variable fonts Figma plugin (part 1 – what is variable fonts [simple])

rememberlenny — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 17:06:40 +0000

Importantly, variable fonts are active and available across all major browsers.

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React Figma Plugin – How to get data from the canvas to your app

rememberlenny — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 21:54:35 +0000

I had much too hard of a time groking the Figma Plugin’s documentation, and thought I would leave a note for any brave souls to follow. Figma has a great API and documentation around how to make a plugin on the desktop app. When writing a plugin, you have access to the entire Figma canvas […]

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From webdev to computer vision and machine learning

rememberlenny — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:13:09 +0000

For the past four years, I’ve had the notion that I was going to start a company. The underlying feeling was that I wanted to work on something that I could passionately take full responsibility for. Although this has been a constant desire, I have not taken the concrete steps to make this a reality. […]

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