Simon Willison’s Weblog

Newzald: From Moleskine to Market. A typeface designer describes the process involved in designing a new font and taking it to market.

# 9:24 am / design, newzald, typography

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. Went to see this last night with some friends—they really do improvise an entire musical (a surprisingly good one, with catchy new songs and three part harmonies) based entirely on user suggestions. They have shows coming up in Brighton and Bath, thoroughly recommended.

# 9:36 am / bath, brighton, events, musicals, recommendations, theatre

Web Sockets in Tornado. Bret Taylor has a simple class making it trivial to experiment with the Web Sockets protocol (now shipping in Chrome) using the scalable Tornado application server. He also raises the million dollar question: what will existing load balancers and proxies make of the new protocol?

# 11:54 am / brettaylor, chrome, comet, python, tornado, websockets