💭 Notes – 09:32 Thu 19 Jun 2025 – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)
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Date: June 19, 2025

Notes – 09:32 Thu 19 Jun 2025
 Notes – 09:32 Thu 19 Jun 2025
 dbushell.com · dbushell.com [1]

David's design on his blog is fantastic likely from years of small improvements like this converting ugly quotes to pretty quotes and optimizing fonts.

> It’s common for markdown libraries to convert the first to the second like my build script does.

This is new to me, I had no idea that markdown libraries did this, I'm now interested if markdown-it does it.

> For subsetting I use the fontTools library but I’ve no idea how to setup Python environments. I got it working once and failed to document the process.

David, David, David, I'm sorry python has done you this dirty. I should do a post on making python environments in the age of Posts tagged: uv [2]. You got options to run in docker/podman, a whole ass vm, uv venv, uvx, uv run, uv script, python -m venv, virtualenv, poetry, hatch, and too many more. The ones that matter are containers or uv.

!!! note

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References:
[1]: https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-06-19T09:32Z/
[2]: /tags/uv/
[3]: /thoughts/
[4]: /tags/thoughts/