iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I was just typing on my phone and wrote “dont” (expecting autocorrect to add the missing apostrophe). But my typing instead produced “font” and frankly I’m impressed it still autocorrected to “don’t”.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 9h

Well, if they deleted it, all the numbering below would change, and all references to those numbers would have to change. (Speaking from experience.)

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 13h

I think if you have a code, you need to stick with it, and one of my codified beliefs is that I don’t mock people for their physical appearance. To have exceptions is to say it’s okay to do so, and I view this as a deontological matter, so I don’t do this to my enemies or rivals either.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This morning, a Cooper’s Hawk visited our backyard bird bath. They stood around in it for quite a while, just looking around – easily over 30 min. – and eventually started bathing.

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Fontstand @fontstand.com · 05/10/2026

NEW on Fontstand is the Q Project from @typotheque.com, a game-like type system inspired by toys, enabling users to create a nearly infinite number of creative variations with a range of base fonts and dozens of decorative attachments that can be combined and layered. fontstand.com/fonts/q-proj...

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We're in Alamo and it seems warmer and muggier here compared to yesterday. Our backyard thermometer also has it a bit warmer by the numbers.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My 2023 review of this movie in its entirety: ‘It definitely has a “tape I rented from Blockbuster Video” vibe.’

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Don't choose, just enjoy the thread.

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strawberry garfield @bbburgerrr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

buddy found an incredible shirt at an upper lake antique store

t shirt with pix of paul mccartney and it says PAUL MCCARTNEY 1942-2022. he is still alive fyi

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I read this super impassioned thread on reddit about going through a massive record collection and getting rid of anything you don’t LOVE love, how we are getting older and don’t need all this Stuff, & I nodded & thought “maybe” & had no less than 6 records in my hand here before I put them back

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“AI researchers have also warned that as models grow more capable, they increasingly recognize when they are being watched and adjust their behavior accordingly, which makes ‌it harder ⁠to monitor model behavior.”

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cool old train locomotive parked at the Salinas train station.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Maybe I shouldn’t admit this, but I literally have never heard of “Choosin’ Texas” — and other than this post I still don’t really know what the deal with it is, other than whatever I passively absorbed from the discourse just now.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As a former Type West instructor (and current Letterform Archive board member), I’m incredibly happy about the growth of this program and the quality of the student work over the years. I’ll be there tonight and I’m looking forward to celebrating this milestone with everyone!

letterformarchive.org

Type For All! Ten Years of Type West | Letterform Archive

Come celebrate our students from 31 countries and their quirky, beautiful, and (yes!) practical typefaces.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of my favorite things is to scan an old owner’s manual and share it on archive.org. There is such an irritating grift from sites charging money for PDFs of old manuals. My most-viewed item at the Internet Archive is the manual for my old Denon DCD-910 CD player.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's so gloriously stupid and funny.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It does seem like a lot. OTOH, it would have been about half that cost in 2000, adjusted for inflation? (I am always trying to remember inflation when I see vinyl LPs that cost $30.)

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am really really really disappointed with @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov on this.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think some government regulation is in order.

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The lintel over the stairs is very low, and while no one in our family is tall enough to be troubled by it, some of Ben's bandmates are over six feet. So Kirsten fastened this up as a reminder.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I got a look at all of these a couple days ago. Good stuff!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Researchers Identify Gene Responsible For Visualizing Murder After Touching Missing Person’s Sweater theonion.com/researchers-identify-g…

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

LOL let me know when you do that and I will definitely stop by!

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Although I have to admit I'd be tempted by a CD-shaped Kraft single.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think the problem with this idea is that the Kraft cheese single is already perfected for Gen X (aka me).

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is all I ask from a house spider. "Please, this is a nice place, help me out here."

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I very much appreciate you doing this.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have a fond memory of dropping in to Eli’s one night in 1992 when Ted Danson, Whoopie Goldberg, and Will Smith were hanging out there, very low-key, until Will Smith jumped up onto the stage with the house band and started rapping, working the house into a frenzy.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Setting aside the substance of the article, I don’t at all like the use of the unexplained acronym “WFH” in the first paragraph, as if everyone knows what it means. (Yes, I do, but it’s not the point.) Seems like not a great journalistic practice. www.wired.com/story/agains...

In the spring of 2020, as a new and highly contagious virus spread throughout the country, the US came to a standstill. The economy shut down, cities emptied, and white-collar workers were sent home en masse. Platforms like Zoom, Slack, and Microsoft Teams surged in usage as WFH became ubiquitous. From remote schooling and virtual weddings to app-based grocery delivery and livestreamed concerts, the pandemic accelerated and cemented society’s increasing reliance on digital platforms. Already one of the most powerful forces in the American economy, the tech sector suddenly became the infrastructure underpinning every aspect of life.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So, on the day we remember the birth of OpenType variable fonts, I also remember the sad passing of my mom at almost the same moment — an awkward case of my work distracting me at precisely the wrong time.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A half hour before my talk (co-presenting with Monotype and Google), I got a call from my sister than our mother had passed away. Standing among colleagues at a conference in Poland, all I could think to do was carry on. Weirdly, there is still a video online of me giving that presentation.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Practically from the instant I arrived, I learned my mother’s health had taken a turn for the worse. Talking to my sister in Montana, it was hard to decide if I should turn around and get back on a plane (not trivial in my current location). Instead, I reluctantly waited.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ten years ago I was in Warsaw, where OpenType variable font technology was jointly announced at ATypI by Adobe, Apple, Google and Microsoft after substantial technical and diplomatic efforts. I was there to give a talk, but it turned into one of the strangest type conference moments I’ve had…

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Stephen Coles @stewf.com · 16/09/2026

I was searching for something else and run into one of the wildest studies I’ve ever seen: www.healthline.com/nutrition/co... “Lab research has shown that [cockroach milk] is more than three times as nutritious as cow’s milk, buffalo milk, and human milk … providing all nine essential amino acids.”

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not to mention you will be more comfortable because everything fits — which means you are more likely to wear those clothes and be more confident (and more social and appealing) in them.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s been a while since I posted a photo of a critter in the backyard. Hello, titmouse.

An oak titmouse perched sideways on a chain above an orange bird feeder.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I kinda really like Northern Britain.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This new checkmark icon seems to feature heavily as a standard UI icon — seemingly where I'd expect an 'X'. It's disturbing because to me a checkmark means "I approve of this", and I'm just closing a window. I now have to pause and think, "Am I committing to something?"

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I wish I had taken a screenshot of my own at the time, because I got up and sat down in the kitchen to look at the news, and saw a web page that was almost blank white with a few random lines of text — just barely functional at that moment, and I thought, “What is going on?”

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Someone out there has probably covered the details. Possibly San Francisco finally replaced Helvetica? (Wild guess.) Hilariously, I also need to take my old phone in for a new battery and was anticipating Apple scorn for my old OS.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The keyboard letters are more narrow. Why? It was fine before.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The funny thing is, that was not a bad time to be in NYC as a New Yorker because people were very gentle with each other. Strangers would walk up to you and ask you how you were doing and I’ve never had more deep conversations with strangers just while we were waiting for the subway

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

After holding out a long time, I finally upgraded to iOS 26. My god, this UX is really terrible in fundamental ways.

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