DEdenverllc·Oct 12, 2026
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ttfx
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omacom / ttfx
ttfx
Terminal text effects as a single static binary — a parity-exact Rust port of terminaltexteffects
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Terminal text effects as a single static binary — a parity-exact Rust port of terminaltexteffects
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Aug 10 | 2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Aug 17 | 2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 24 | 2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 31 | 2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 7 | 2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 14 | 2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 21 | 2026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 28 | 2026-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Oct 5 | 2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 12 | 2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-19 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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5 sourcesThis is complete slop.
It doesn't matter how highly optimised it is, it is slop.
And DHH doesn't even know what he is doing. In this PR he now removed portability (and adding it back after he did the first pass of assembly and someone told him the mistake)
The end result in assembly isn't even faster than the Rust version also rolled in slop.
https://github.com/omacom/ttfx/pull/44
As they say, this is essentially polishing a turd and rolling it around in glitter, yet it still came from the gutter.
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