Terry Cavanagh

Hello all! Happy, uh, 2026? Sorry it’s been so long, you know how it is. You get busy, time goes by, and then all of a sudden it’s October and there’s way too much to talk about to cover everything in one little blog post.

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Here’s something crazy and pointless: did you know that LCD monitors draw single pixels by mixing three individual red, green and blue subpixels ? It’s true! In fact, some devices (like mobile phones and handheld gaming devices) actually use this to anti-alias text and make borders more distinct. Microsoft even use it…