Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Dave Anderson @danderson@hachyderm.io

1/1/2026, 8:09:05 PM

Public

TIL Kicad's builtin font is defined as a set of Kicad symbol libraries, which (mis)use symbol features like pins to mark out important locations that matter for fonts. Then a python script goes brrr to convert all those "component symbols" into a C++ file containing hardcoded glyphs.

Here's the latin capital letter A, for instance.

It's... quite cursed? I went into this to try and see if I could find an easy way to extract an approximate size of individual glyphs, and the answer appears to be "lol, lmao".

The letter A in uppercase, from Kicad's built-in font. It's being shown in the Kicad symbol editor, complete with a whole bunch of annotations for things like accent positioning, spacing around the glyph, and so on.

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