Damian’s notes

‘No, I think it’s a terrible idea, but I definitely think we should do it.‘ One of the surpising projects that came out of the lockdown of 2020 is a production of Hamlet inside the Grand Theft Auto multi-player game. There is a film about it, that got limited release around the end of 2024. You get a glimpse of their production approach from the trailer.

Apple have an experimental animated table lamp robot thing which strongly resembles the Luxo Jr that features in Pixar’s logo.

This post describes my current attitude to genAI so I don’t need to

Here’s a really beautifully presented overview of animal onomatopoeia across languages. Genuinely interesting use of the scroll-capture technique to let the reader move through an illustrated article at their own pace.

Kris Sowersby on the design process for American Gothic, his revival of the venerable Franklin Gothic family of the early 1900s. This essay includes a discussion of the importance and ubiquity of Franklin Gothic, and is presented as a typographical tour-de-force, and looks amazing full-screen on a large monitor.

Microsoft’s TypeScript is the latest JavaScript infrastructure project to rewrite in Go or Rust for the sake of speed. Microsoft have opted for Go. It will be funny if Go’s biggest user group turns out to be TypeScript programmers.

Nolen Royalty (eieio) has created a web site for listing all UUIDs, in case you are having trouble remembering them all.

Today I learned there are language tags ‘en-001’ and ‘en-150’ for World and European English. The former is a better default than ‘en’, which browsers still associate with American-specific conventions like month-day-year dates.

In this video from the V&A, artist Colin Reid shows us how he makes dramatic kiln-cast glass sculptures, starting with an impression made from the rocky shores of west Scotland.