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Max Iorsh

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כמה מילים על אותיות עבריות A few words about Hebrew letters #FontForge maintainer 🌉 bridged from ⁂ kishkush.net/@iorsh, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
🇸🇪 A brand-new Swedish translation of the FontForge UI, kindly provided by Daniel Nylander www.danielnylander.se github.com/fontforge/fontforge/pull… #FontForge #localization #UI #typography #typografi #Swedish #svenska
FontForge screenshot with Swedish localization
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
📢 So thrilled to pre-announce zTheme by Adolfo Ovalles - the next UI theme for FontForge! It is based on the Symbolic SVG convention, so the icons would seamlessly fit into any color theme, light or dark. I plan to integrate the icon set after the upcoming […] [Original post on kishkush.net]
A bitmap view window with dark icons on a light background in the toolbarA bitmap view window with light icons on a dark background in the toolbar
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
📢 Shout-out to Harrison Bleiberg, who created a lovely online tool - IvritSuite Hebrew Font Maker (ivritsuite.com/Hebrew_Font_Maker.ht…). I really like the idea of custom "wizards" for CTL fonts (e.g. Arabic or Devanagari), where the novice user would not need to master OpenType magic […]
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Embracing small local businesses 🎨👩‍🎨 סטודיו וגלריה לאמנות של נטליה דיאטלוב "המרפאה" בעין הוד. בואו בהמוניכם! #art #lettering #Hebrew #SignPainting
A smal and colorful gallery with sculptures and paintingsMe drawing a pencil sketch fot the gallery sign in English and HebrewIn the middle of sign drawing - "Polyclinic Studio Gallery"Posing with the final sign. Yes, the "g" was fixed later. I'm not that proficient in Latin letters.
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@workchronicles/117… Promoting variable font technology 😜
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
תחביב מוזר של רוסים. כן, זה אכיל. Porcino mushroom (Boletus edulis) hunt in Dresden. 🏆🍄
Five specimens of Boletus edulis in various sizes
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
I finally found it, the mysterious and elusive Triple SSS! The photos are not of the Grosssedlitz gardens, but rather the nearby Weesenstein park and castle. I put them here for likes.
Weesenstein park, view from castle square.Weesenstein castle
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
In memoriam Yayoi Kusama. Tel Aviv Museum, February 2022. RIP. #המנוחה_ואני
אני יושב על רקע נקודות שחורות על קירות צהובים
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
@LittleBigLetter
A colourful smiling beast promoting an "Emotions" exhibition in Dresden Hygiene Museum.
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026
להגיע לשדה תעופה עם דרכון פג תוקף של אחד הילדים - צ'ק 😳
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
הייתי במפגש מבוא לדבוראות במכוורת דבש מכמנים ושרדתי כדי לספר 🐝 www.facebook.com/HoneyGalil An introduction to beekeeping in the Honey Galil Apiary, nobody was hurt. #трудовыебудни #beekeeping #bees
בחליפת דבוראים אמיתית ועם דבורים אמיתיות, כמו גדול!
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026
📢 Shout-out for @nicoverbruggen, and I think it's the first time I use a real Mastodon handle. Nico had the courage to dive deep into the fossil FontForge UI code, and hs contribution greatly improved the menubar experience […] [Original post on kishkush.net]
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
What is the business case of all those nice guys who offer free security audits for FontForge out of the blue? I already declined some half a dozen, but they keep coming. Is there some hidden money in there? #infosec #cybersecurity
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
תערוכת בובות חיפה, סירקין 21, קומה שניה. התערוכה פתוחה עד 30 ביולי
ЛЮДМИЛА ПОДОЛЬСКАЯ
פודולסקי לודמילה
0525116364ЛЕЯ МУЛЛОКАНД
לאה רחל מולאקנד
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
📢 Today's shout-out is for Adolfo Ovalles who developed an all-new staggeringly beautiful UI theme for #FontForge, complete with 310 (yes, three hundred and ten❗) new icons in light and dark. github.com/adolfo-ovalles/zThemes #typography #opensource #FOSS #UI #UX #icons
FontForge "Generate Fonts" dialog in dark and light colorsFontForge Character View window in dark and light colors
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
Now listening: Noel Kharman - HAIFA / نويل خرمان - حيفا www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ98Ql4uGkI
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026
The Kibbutz Passover Hagadah, drawn by Shmuel Katz. Published in 1964. מלאך המוות וחבריו, להנאת הצופים! מלל ואיורים על ידי שמואל כץ. הצילומים באדיבות מוזיאון ישראל והבלוג "קוים ונקודות" של יגאל זורע. #Hebrew #calligraphy #lettering
שער אביב עם איורים של שמש, פרחים, ציפורים ומשפחה מטיילת בשדה.מלל ואיורי "חד גדיא", עם גיבורי השיר עוסקים במלאכתם.
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026
Wow, @drakulaboy@github.com wrote a full-blown font editor for Android, with FontForge as a backend. I don't understand much about mobile development, but it looks really impressive! github.com/fontforge/fontforge/disc… #FontForge #Android #typography
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026
#FontForge has a new scaling operation, thanks to a contribution from the Oscar-winning digital artist Greg Ercolano 🏆 @erco77@github.com. The new scaling is much more in-line with modern UI conventions, and hopefully improves another small bit in FontForge […] [Original post on kishkush.net]
Screenshot of letter "a" with visual handlers for scaling in various directions.
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026
קצת גרפיטי מהטיול הכי לא חינוכי שאפשר לדמיין. שירותי הרווחה כבר בעקבותי... #חיפה #graffiti
את ארז שמח לא צריך להציג. אחד אמני הגרפיטי הבולטים בחיפה, ואולי בארץ.לא הצלחתי לקרוא מה כתוב כאן. אבל אותיות צהובות בציור תלת מימד עם דפנות אפורות על רקע כחול. מרשים מאוד
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026
Some vintage Hebrew signs from the abandoned Haifa central bus station. Don't ask how I got there 😳 #Hebrew #typography #sign #lettering #חיפה
A red Hebrew sign "Treatment room, entry during emergency only"A probably handmade tin sign in Hebrew "Egged house maintenance". Egged is an Israeli bus company.A red sign on an orange shelter door: "No entry for vehicles", with hand-painted letters.
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026
Lucille Uhlrich Helios in Reflection, 2026. Gold-glazed sandstone. The artist gave my wife one coin as a gift 💖😁 Biennale of Contemporary Keramics, #Rhodes #art #ceramics
Golden coins scattered across a small pond.A golden coin on a blue marble.
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
#אמיגורומי של סבתא ריטה 😍 #capybara #amigurumi
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026
Another GTK-based dialog in #FontForge - Histogram UI. Perhaps not very useful by itself, but complicated. It was fun to port, and it introduced a few important pieces of generic functionality. 6 dialogs out of ~150, and counting (very slowly) ⏳ #OpenSource #GTK #typography
Old dialogNew dialog
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026
Mirsini Roumelioti, The Vessels of the First Light, 2025 Stoneware dark clay and porcelain Installation dimensions 33 x 250 x 250 cm
Dark oval vessels scattered on a sandy ground, surrounded by native mediterranean vegetation. Each vessel carries an inscription in one of modern or ancient Mediterranean area scripts.A vessel with Hebrew inscription "The sun shines to all"
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026
Elysia Athanatos, Echoes, 2024 Ceramic, stoneware and gold, magnet, iron metal base 90 x 85 x 90 cm
A grey ceramic vessel painted with gold inside, situated in a museum setting with christian icons on walls.
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026
2nd Biennale of Contemporary Keramics, Rhodos. Vassiliki Kyriaki, L-akrimaria, 2026 The artist is playing a self-created xylophone. #art #ceramics #Rhodos
A woman playing a ceramic xylophone with amphora-like vessels, surrounded by medieval walls.
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026
טעימה מפסטיבל אמנות "רונדל" שהתקיים בחיפה בסופ"ש האחרון 🐗 1. Vera Konyashova, "My Room", 2024 2. Natalya Lamanova, project "Alternative Stamps". #אמנות #חיפה #art
A room wall densely covered with lettering and abstract art paintings and sketches.Faux vintage Hebrew postal stamps featuring a nude woman riding a wild boar.
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026
With a lot of help from the community, today I hopefully fixed a nasty and elusive FontForge crash which I have been chasing for months. github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issu… Open source development at its best 🦾 #FontForge #GTK #opensource
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Fontforge crashing when I try to add a new encoding slot · Issue #5786 · fontforge/fontforge
Hello. I've been attempting to make a script for a conlang which requires a lot of ligatures, but I've been unable to add new encoding slots for a while now. Every time I try to add them, no menu p...
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026
Elinor Brodsky, a painter from Ashdod. Exhibition at Manole gallery, Ein Hod. #חיפה #תערוכה #art
Four women of different ages dancing in a circle with their faces outwards.
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026
Studio & gallery "The Polyclinic", Ein Hod - the grand opening. Artist: Natalia Dyatlov #art #pottery
Female figure performing a head stand
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אייר אברמסקי־קרוננברג ☮️ @ruxotves.hed.im.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026
@iorsh מסתבר שגברת לוין שוחררה 🎉⛓️‍💥 הרשיון שמופיע בריפו בגיטהאב הוא חופשי (OFL): github.com/AlefAlefAlef/gveret-levi… בעוד שרשיון השימוש שמופיע באתר של אאא, שלמיטב הבנתי משקף רישוי מוקדם יותר שהוחלף, הוא רק חינמי עם הגבלות תמוהות […]
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026
פתיחת סטודיו-גלריה חדש "המרפאה" של האמנית נטליה דיאטלוב בכפר האמנים עין הוד פתיחה חגיגית: שבת 23/05/2026 בשעה 11:00 טלפון: 054-6255749 #אמנות #פיסול #חיפה
פלייר הגלריה לאמנות ופיסול עם תמונת האמנית על רקע יצירותיה
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026
La reine des problèmes 😘👌
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026
Kazuo Ishii in Tikotin museum, Haifa. #תערוכה #חיפה #art #calligraphy
Kazuo Ishii
b. 1957, Saitama, Japan

"Impermanence", calligraphy, ink on paper
2006
Gift of the artist
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026
יתרונות של קומת קרקע 😍
Rhynchocalamus melanocephalus on a tile floor
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026
Today, in a hilarious turn of events a bee family decided to swarm into a parking lot of a beekeeping startup. The integration and the research team leads promptly collected them into an empty box, and all the girls are now on the way to their new home 🐝 Images […] [Original post on kishkush.net]
A big bee swarm hanging on a tree next to a yellow gateTwo people in beekeeping protective gear are removing a bee swarm from a tree. One is holding an empty hive, the other is holding the branches below the swarm.
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026
Being an open-source maintainer has unexpected perks sometimes, so now I can vibe-code like all those pesky youngsters. 😎 Let's start with the accidental removal of a root directory. That shouldn't be too difficult.
Approval screen for Copilot Pro
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026
In a continuing flurry of boring #FontForge news, I ported two more dialogs to GTK: bitmap strikes and problem detector. This boosts the number of modernized UI dialogs to 3 out of ~150. That's 2%, yay! 💪 #FontForge #GTK #opensource #FOSS
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026
Fredrick Brennan, one of FontForge chief maintainers and a board member, passed away on January 10 at the age of 31. I didn't work together with him, as I became involved with FontForge a few years after he moved on to develop MFEK. Nevertheless his essay "Why MFEK" ( […]
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026
The first real FontForge plugin has landed! Just five years after the introduction of plugin framework, the Variable Font Plugin by @MihailJP@github.com is here. Grab your free copy at pypi.org/project/fontforge-variable… #FontForge #opensource #typography
Screenshot of a variable axes interface from FontForge plugin
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026
Today's FontForge shout-out 📢 goes to Skef, one of the long-term maintainers. He did an enormous amount of work to clean up the codebase for C++ compatibility and made the Python module importable by the standard Windows Python installation. No screenshots today, but trust me, it was a really […]
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026
פריחה בעמק יזרעאל Blossom in Jezreel valley. It's quite unfortunate that almond gardens are slowly cut down, more and more each season. Not economical, probably...
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026
Now listening: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRWE5KFt_eI
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026
תערוכה באודיטוריום חיפה, הפתיחה מחר בשבע בערב. #תערוכה #חיפה
Two clay cat figures preparing to attack a bait, an exhibition poster is underneath.
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026
RE: typo.social/@UnicodeWatch/115986017… Another #Unicode gem discussing the meaning of alchemical symbols. Tartare salé, s'il vous plaît.
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Sam at BLAG @blag.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026
Nice bit of nominative determinism from my old stomping grounds in Stoke Newington, Northeast London. #Hamburger #Butcher #NominativeDeterminism #StokeNewington #London #N16
Text-based advertisement in an almost-square format with the wording, "N.S. Hamburger, oldest established and largest kosher butcher in North London. 82 Green Lanes, N.16., Phone: Dalston 2099".
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026
Everyone's home
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026
#трудовыебудни #computervision
Poster of computer vision conference in Tel Aviv
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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026
"ארבעה צדדים של מודל אחד", תערוכה בחיפה. פתוח עד שבת. An interesting concept of four painters and one model in several sittings. Katia Desnenko's studio in Haifa. #art #תערוכה #חיפה
עלון התערוכה בסטודיו פתוח. חמישי עד שבתAnna Varakin, acrylic.Natalia Diatlov, acrylic.
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