Monospace font nerdery

Episode Summary

Today we’re joined by a dynamic duo, Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried, who team up on all sorts of digital passion projects. This includes the wildly popular Phosphor Icons plus their latest joint, Departure Mono, a monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe… that both Adam & Jerod are pretty much in love with. We discuss their tastes & inspirations, how they collab, making money on passion projects like these, velvet ropes & so much more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. Wix Studio – Wix Sudio is for devs who build websites, sell apps, go headless, or manage clients. Integrate, extend and write custom scripts in a VS code-based IDE. Leverage zero set up dev, test and production environments. Ship faster with an AI code assistant. And work with Wix headless API’s on any tech stack. WorkOS – A platform that gives developers a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise-ready features to their application. Add Single Sign-On (Okta, Azure, Google, Microsoft OAuth), sync users from any SCIM directory, HRIS integration, audit trails (SIEM), free magic link sign-in. WorkOS is designed for developers and offers a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com Featuring:Helena Zhang – LinkedIn, Mastodon, XTobias Fried – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Project sites Departure Mono Phosphor Icons Fon
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  • Sponsor: Fly.io
  • Start the show!
  • A perfect website
  • Monospace magic
  • Adam's font journey
  • Gushing on the site
  • Website deep cuts
  • Retrofuturism
  • Jerod's font journey
  • Iosevka!
  • GNU Unifont!
  • Pixel font nerdery
  • Severance vibes
  • Movie trailers aside
  • Severance no mono?!
  • More website details
  • Adam pokes Jerod
  • Sponsor: Timescale
  • Sponsor: Wix Studio
  • Open source?
  • Donate buttons
  • Making money
  • Font Awesome
  • Freedom in giving
  • Sponsor: WorkOS
  • Intangible benefits
  • Client services
  • Client work challenges
  • No gap in their flow
  • The velvet rope
  • One more idea
  • Patreon vs Buy Me a Coffee
  • Iconography streamers
  • Obligatory AI chapter
  • Support your human creators
  • Closing thoughts and stuff


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