week 36, year 2024 - pretty printing

08 September 2024

Updated: 09 August 2025

this week has been a little insane so i’m actually amazed i’ve found 5 mins to put this together

what i found

spent some time playing around with two little projects, one of which are pretty useful and the other is somewhat conceptual

delta

this is a cli tool for better git diffs and provides syntax highlighting for your git diff and some git commands. it’s also written in rust if you care about that sort of thing

fancy fonts

i also came across a font which renders markdown as rich text using some fancy font features. it’s a little glitchy but really cool that this works without any JS

additionally, there’s also this font which does syntax highlighting

overall, fonts are getting pretty cool these days. the chrome devblog has a cool bit about colrv1 fonts which let us do some pretty fancy things too

it’s also worth taking at this thread which has some links to font related stuff worth checking out