Links #2025-23 - A font, a date, and a loop

Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end.

• I made a font - blog.chay.dev

  I appreciate a good font, even though it's not something you usually notice. Some fonts just work, and other... well they don’t. Creating a new one is not easy, that much I knew. But I had no idea that you even had to think about optical illusions too. This blog post details how someone created their first font. The end result looks good!

• Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript? - brandondong.github.io

  It's always DNS, the saying goes. But when it's not DNS it's timezones. This is a story about how the weird date parsing behavior in JavaScript came to be. Show this to anyone who doesn't understand the difficulties of software development and insists that AI can take it all over.

• The case for using a web browser as your terminal - blog.pomdtr.me

  I'm very much against the trend of putting everything in the browser, but this author went all in and put their terminal in there too. Reading about it sent shivers down my spine, but you have to admire the dedication.

• Mel's Loop - melsloop.com

  The story about Mel's loop is a well-known tale within hacker culture. If you're not familiar with it, you can read it here. If you do know it, this site offers a great deep dive, with annotations and finally answers whether Mel was real or fictional. Spoiler: he was real.