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When Fonts Fall 6 years ago

I want fonts to be made out of just a handful (at a minimum) of primitives -- e.g. here's a vertical stroke, a horizontal stroke, diagonal strokes, what various serif endings look like, here are what the bowls of letters look like, etc.

Tom7, who makes excellent videos about computers, has one about splitting letters up to create anagrams in this way.[0]

All of his videos are technically astounding, like the one where he frankensteined a raspberry pi into a game cartridge to play SNES games on a NES, or the one where he designed and built a computer using IEEE 754 NaN and infinity instead of 0 and 1.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTBAW-Eh0tM

I built an application for exactly this. It's called A Personal Search Engine, APSE for short.[0]

It OCRs screenshots and stores the text in a search index, so you can query by keyword, date, boolean operators, the whole shebang.

It's all local. It is really useful for me - yesterday it saved me after Firefox wigged out and lost all my tabs. It's in a great place to try out, and I am actively developing it.

[0] https://apse.io

I'm building something that does this. It lets you search text in images, video, local files, anything that comes across your screen. You can manually add e.g. web pages too.

It's at https://apse.io. It has been working really well for me. I'm happy to answer questions if that sounds interesting.

I work a lot with image and video processing - this sounds like the kind of thing I'm interested in. Would you want to chat some time? Email is in my profile.

SEEKING WORK - Southern WI/Chicago - Remote OK - Travel possible

I'm Ryan, a software developer specializing in computer vision.

I help businesses work with imagery or video and use that imagery to create data products or get actionable information.

I have worked on projects ranging from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, to drone startups, to enterprise software shops.

Typical computer vision projects might involve object detection/recognition, deep learning, photogrammetry, LIDAR, remote sensing, drones, or more!

Whether you're looking to build an MVP or scale an existing system, I will help you ship a product that helps you hit your next milestone.

I'd love the opportunity to work together if things are a good fit. If you'd like to know more, check out my work or shoot me an email: https://foxrow.com.

SEEKING WORK - Southern Wisconsin/Chicago or remote

I develop computer vision and image processing software. Typical projects I work on are custom image recognition, data pipeline automation, or 3d modeling from imagery.

I've worked with drones, radioastronomy observatories, and space-based observing platforms.

If you have a project you'd like to discuss, whether you're dealing with photos, videos, or otherwise, please get in touch :)

Web: https://foxrow.com Email: ryan (at) foxrow.com