Happy new year!
Here we are in 2025 and I'm slowly dawning into the reality of being back in Berlin. Over Christmas and New Years, I traveled between Belém and São Paulo with Hannah and her family. It was the first time with Hannah and Brazil, and the first time that both of our families were together in full cast.
I got to eat my fair share of Tacacá, Tapioca, Filhote, and Farofa; I learned how to climb an Açaí tree with a Peconha; I had Caranguejo Toc-toc at Atalaia beach; I danced Forró with my 101 year old Grandmother; I was amazed with all the beautiful African textiles at Pinacoteca do Estado; I spent Christmas and New Years in the best possible company; Did I also mention that we got engaged? 💍
… but this post is not about that trip, as it will get it is own space. Here is another list of interesting tidbits from the last days and weeks.
1.
Hamid Naderi Yeganeh, a research student at UCL Maths, creates images using only mathematical formulas.
2.
Commit Mono is an anonymous and neutral coding font focused on creating a better reading experience. I try to unify my Font Family choice among different writing/reading interfaces (Terminal, Obsidian, VSCode, and Kindle), and this is a beautiful –and fairly similar– replacement to my previous favorite: Meslo LG. The website does a great job in demoing its perks.
3.
InkPoster, developed by PocketBook, was one of the very few things that excited me at CES. It is a Picture Frame + ePaper Screen + App that, well, displays images using ePaper.
The resolution seem to be fairly large (2160x3060px) for the estimated circle of confusion for such pieces. It employs the recent E Ink's Spectra 6 displays. This seems to be on a different level than E Ink's Kaleido displays; the ones used on Kindle Color.
That is super niche, and expensive product, but it is one that I'm interested in seeing more of.
4.
Dandadan: This was recommended to me by Rabih, and without a doubt is one of my recent TV highlights. I will not spoil the fun; just go ahead and watch the intro.
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