any #julialang folks at #juliacon? Show us what we’re missing! 😂

"𝕏" U+1D54F: Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X (Unicode Character) The unicode character U+1D54F (𝕏) is named "Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X" and belongs to the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. It is HTML encoded as 𝕏.

that’s a Unicode character found in lots of fonts unicodeplus.com/U+1D54F - saved him paying a designer I expect

Finally, a new blog post! The Walk on Spheres algorithm is an elegant method for solving elliptic PDEs. Minimal implementation using #julialang

michielstock.github.io/posts/2025/W...

Lord Kelvin’s mixer tap

genius on tap, advert from 1886.

Lily UPC Font | Webfont & Desktop | MyFonts Lily™ UPC Regular is a Thai font designed by Unity Progress and offered under license from Microsoft. The Lily UPC Regular Font includes the Thai code page 8...

www.myfonts.com/collections/... 🤣

exeter central station front signage

@thebeautyoftransport.com a typographical puzzler for you 🤣 #fonts

On Line Typeface (Rail Alphabet typeface, Margaret Calvert/Jock Kinneir, UK) When British Rail unveiled its comprehensive corporate identity in 1964, one of the key elements which made it work was a new typeface. It was called Rail Alphabet and it has subsequently proved to…

this article thebeautyoftransport.com/2015/05/13/o... doesn’t suggest a definitive answer to this 🤔 Given the technology at the time, I wonder how many changes they’d want to make ..

you can still see the #manicule on old street signs round our way 😀

vscode and Julia code drawing epitrochoid and equations using Typst

Luxor.jl can now add #typst text - including equations - to drawings. Useful for those with latex allergy 😉 Big thanks to Jakob Peters for his hard work! 🙏

#julialang #typst #epitrochoid

Add Bluesky to social media · Issue #660 · JuliaCon/www.juliacon.org Perhaps we could add Bluesky to the bottom of the page? The social media section at presentshows (a bit untidily): Personally, I'd be happy to see the Xitter link removed entirely, but at least add...

anyone good at HTML?

github.com/JuliaCon/www...

I’ve forgotten what this was now 😀 and the original poster’s been blocked 😂

otherwise go to reddit and ask at /r/identifythisfont -

Font ID Need to identify a typeface?<br> Post an image. Get answers from humans.<br> That’s it. <strong>Font ID.</strong>

there are humans at fontid.co ; the machines at en.m.likefont.com are quite good sometimes; www.whatfontis.com/examples.html often works but is annoying

what’s the blue/orange icon (bottom left) ?

cool - i’ve never heard of asemic writing before .. intriguing!

I didn’t get round to thinking about #piday this year.

I was a bit less lazy 5 years ago:

cormullion.github.io/pages/2019-0...

#julialang #pointlessgraphics

medium article fade

it started well 😂

[Very Off Topic] Julia, a novel (Retelling Orwell's 1984 from Julia's PoV) My local bookshop is promoting a book called Julia, by Sandra Newman, with an eye-catching cover. It’s a novel, re-telling the story of the character Julia in George Orwell’s famous book, “1984”. ...

fun fact: the Orwell estate have registered “Julia” as a trademark 😀 discourse.julialang.org/t/very-off-t...

fonts? 😉

abstract patterns in coffee colors

the barista at my local coffee shop does amazing latte art on my flat white coffee ☕️ - not as chaotic as these though. I found the :coffee colour scheme useful!
Coded in #julialang and Luxor.jl...

experience doesn’t have an expiry date - it accumulates, and open-source development keeps good records 😀

old school too - with the lighter centres 🔘

Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later 10 years ago today, we published 'Why we Created Julia' ...

also julialang.org/blog/2022/02... is an interesting read

and from #julialang :)

yes, they’re designed to contrast each other rather than complement, but the alternative might be a rainbow free-for-all 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈😂😱

nice poster!

screen shot of Discourse post about julialang.social

some more details about the demise of julialang.social 🪦

i might post something someday 😂